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My Health E THE PATIENTS HEALTH EDUCATION NETWORK is patient advocacy service. MHE is the first and only patient health education website dedicated to patient health literacy. www.MyHealthE.net

The mission of MHE is to help educate, engage and empower through health literacy by providing easier access to health education and through those means support healthier happier patients.

Why is health literacy so important? The National Assessment of Health literacy study states that only 12% of US adults have the health literacy proficiency to perform complex tasks such as using a table to calculate an employee’s share of health care cost. The Institute of Medicine reports at 90 million people, nearly half our adult population, lack health literacy skills needed to understand and act and health information and health systems commands. Annual cost of low health literacy is $1-$2 billion a year.