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Health Literacy, eHealth, and Communication: Putting the Consumer First: Workshop Summary

Acknowledgments

Without the support of the sponsors of the Institute of Medicine
Roundtable on Health Literacy, it would not have been possible to plan
and conduct the workshop, Health Literacy, eHealth, and Communi-
cation, which this report summarizes. Sponsors from the Department
of Health and Human Services are the Health Resources and Services
Administration, the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion,
and the National Cancer Institute. Non-federal sponsorship was provided
by the Academy for Education Development, Affinity Health Plan, the
American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation, GlaxoSmithKline,
Kaiser Permanente, Merck & Co., Inc., and Pfizer, Inc.
The Roundtable wishes to express its gratitude to the expert speakers
whose presentations provided an overview of eHealth and communica-
tion challenges as well as describing consumer-oriented eHealth sys-
tems and guides for developing successful health information technology.
These speakers were Cindy Brach, Dawn Gauthier, Rita Kukafka, Janet
Marchibroda, Kim Nazi, Cameron D. Norman, Anthony Rodgers, Joshua
Seidman, and Cynthia Solomon. Thanks also go to Charles Friedman and
Linda Harris for their presentations on health literacy, health information
technology, and Healthy People 2020.
The Roundtable wishes to thank the planning committee members for
their work in putting together an excellent workshop agenda. Members
of the planning committee were Carolyn Cocotas, Arthur Culbert, Janet
Marchibroda, Ruth Parker, Yolanda Partida, and Joshua Seidman. Thanks
also go to George Isham for moderating the entire workshop.

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