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are growing their health IT muscles and literacy, accelerated in the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal healthdata, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic HealthData Easier.
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Privacy literacy, understanding HIPAA and the importance of personal healthdata security and control; and, of course, Foundational literacy – the reading, writing, and arithmetic basics that form traditional definitions of “literacy.”
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