Background: Health literacy (HL) is the measure of a person’s ability to obtain, process and understand basic health information and services to make appropriate health decisions. Previous studies note positive correlation between high HL and patient understanding of their condition. Patients with low HL have greater needs in transitional care domains, citing inadequate caregiver support [...]

Background: Providing patients access to their encounter notes has been found to have many benefits in health management. This evidence has led to a rapidly expanding national movement, OpenNotes, which encourages clinicians to provide patients access to their medical notes. A major barrier to the utility of open medical notes is the dense medical terminology [...]