BACKGROUND Consumer health information technology (IT) solutions are designed to support patient health management and have the ability to facilitate patients' health information communication with their social networks. However, there is a need for consumer health IT solutions to align with patients' health management preferences for increased adoption of the technology. It may be possible to ...

BACKGROUND Accurate assessment of the difficulty of consumer health texts is a prerequisite for improving readability. General purpose readability formulas based primarily on word length are not well suited for the health domain, where short technical terms may be unfamiliar to consumers. To address this need, we previously developed a regression model for predicting "average familiarity" with ...

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Obesity has become an epidemic and an important public health concern. Because the problem is multidimensional, the solution will require an interdisciplinary approach involving the cooperation of the food industry with other stakeholders, such as the government, academia, and health care providers. The consumer is an important player in the solution to obesity because the consumer can make hea...

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Links [1] http://medlineplus.gov/ [2] http://www.medlineplus.gov [3] http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/mplusdictionary.html [4] http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/encyclopedia.html [5] http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginformation.html [6] https://www.hsl.virginia.edu/pfl [7] https://www.hsl.virginia.edu/portal/patients/patient_safety.pdf [8] https://www.hsl.virginia.edu/collections/consu...