Welcome to NextClinica
NextClinica helps you learn about your health. Having better health literacy increases your chances of preventing health problems and helps manage health problems better.
What is health literacy?
The degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions.
(HHS 2000 and Institute of Medicine 2004)
Ideas assisted with health literacy include:
- Shared decision making
- Better advocacy in health settings
- Improved communications with health care provider
Five Practical Tips to Avoid Drug Interactions
It is accepted for people to combine foods when eating lunch or dinner as this activity makes eating more enjoyable. What is not accepted is for people to combine the…
Reasons to Eat More Green Foods
Keeping track of what to eat and what to avoid can seem like a full-time job, particularly when you are preparing meals for an entire family. That is especially true…
Super Easy Mind-Body Techniques for Hospital Workers
Hospitals are a culture unlike any other. In many ways they function just like any other workplace environment. But anyone who even visits a hospital can quickly recognize that the…
Medication Reconciliation: Tips For Improvement
There are literally thousands of different medicines on the market being prescribed every day. It is no wonder, then, that unwanted and adverse drug interactions have the potential to be…
Improving Patient Experience: Can We Learn from Disney?
Disney World, despite being an enormous facility that receives vast numbers of visitors every hour of the day, somehow manages to earn praise for superior customer service. About 70% of…
Healthy Diet Can Create A Healthier Gut Microbiome
There are colonies of bacteria or microbiome inside our digestive tract that can aid in good digestion and better overall health. In fact, there are more bacteria living in our…
