X
GO
Resource Overview

The process of finding and hiring the best-qualified candidate for a Quality and/or Health IT job in your health center is time-intensive and challenging. Having job vacancies or recruiting the wrong person can cost the organization in terms of real money, time spent, morale, and productivity. Successful hiring requires refining the recruitment process, which includes analyzing the requirements of a job, attracting employees to that job, screening and selecting applicants, and hiring the new employee to the organization.

This section includes resources to help you define and refine your recruiting methods.  These are tools that have been tested by health centers in the field and are proven to work. These resources reflect the combined experience of several successful health centers around the country.

Also available are templates for Health IT Job Functions and samples of Health IT Job Descriptions.

Health IT Staff Recruitment Tools
Health Literacy Online
Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
/ Categories: Electronic Patient Engagement, Patient Portals,

Health Literacy Online

A Guide for Simplifying the User Experience by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

As Health Centers increase the amount of electronic communications sent out to their patients they need to continually assess the literacy level of the content that they are sending out across patient portals, text messages, and social networks. This guide provided by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion helps staff "develop intuitive health websites and digital tools that can be easily accessed and understood by all users — including the millions of Americans who struggle to find, process, and use online health information."

The Health Literacy Online guide is broken into six main sections as follows:

  1. What We Know About Users with Limited Literacy Skills
  2. Write Actionable Content
  3. Display Content Clearly on the Page
  4. Organize Content and Simplify Navigation
  5. Engage Users
  6. Test Your Site with Users with Limited Literacy Skills

Resource Links

  • A link to the ODPHP developed Health Literacy GuideThis research-based guide will help you develop intuitive health websites and digital tools that can be easily accessed and understood by all users, including the millions of Americans who struggle to find, process, and use online health information.
Print
29206
Tags: patient engagement mobile health patient portals Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion ODPHP health literacy social networking
Intended AudienceHealth Center Staff, Patient Navigators, Health Education Staff

Related Resources

Acknowledgements

This resource collection was compiled by the HITEQ staff with portions contributed by Chris Espersen, HITEQ Advisory Committee member and Independent Contractor and Past President of Midwest Clinicians Network; Shane McBride, Independent Contractor and Past Vice President of Quality and Clinical Systems at South End Community Health Center; Chris Grasso, Associate Director for Informatics & Data Services- The Fenway Institute; and Ed Phippen, Principal - Phippen Consulting, LLC.

Need Assistance?
Would you like more assistance regarding Health IT and QI Workforce Development strategies or support in using any of the included resource sets?

  Request Support

 

Upcoming Events
The Quadruple Aim
Quadruple Aim

A Conceptual Framework

Improving the U.S. health care system requires four aims: improving the experience of care, improving the health of populations, reducing per capita costs and improving care team well-being. HITEQ Center resources seek to provide content and direction aligned with the goals of the Quadruple Aim

Learn More >