Issues of eHealth literacy 1. In the digital age, online health information is important to help people quickly acquire related information concerning unknown diseases and to make decisions regarding treatment and basic care skills. 2. The appropriate online health information is recommended to be presented at a 6th-grade reading level. 3. According to the literature, the readability of online health information exceeds the ability of potential public readers. 4. Professional websites such as hospital- or organizational-based websites offer many patient education resources and disease-care knowledge. 5. These websites commonly contain a lot of medical terminologies and the content is not colloquial. 6. ?Therefore public readers will not easily comprehend the information and then instead of linking other more popular but not correct websites, such as https://read01.com/. 7. Some ideas proposed here are: Grading systems may be helpful in managing health websites. They can make sure the websites are designed for different reader levels and thus people can quickly find proper websites which fit their needs. Using mobile eHealth literacy screening tools to identify the readability levels of online health information. Healthcare providers can preliminarily screen patients’ reading ability before delivering patient education. Professionals should take initiative to recommend qualified websites based on the reading levels of patients and health consumers through popular media such as TV.
