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Session 4 Track B: Patient Centric Approach to Modernizing Medical Product Information: eLabelling and Health Literacy
Session Chair(s)
Tharany Ganesh
Head, Regulatory Affairs, AstraZeneca Canada Inc., Canada
With increased involvement of patients in their own healthcare outcomes, there is a need to create medical product information that is readily accessible and understandable to both healthcare providers and patients. This session will describe a vision for eLabelling platforms, tools and a blueprint to create health literate patient medication information. Lessons learnt will be relevant to drug developers, healthcare providers, patients and regulators.
Learning Objective : At the conclusion of this session, participants should be able to:- Describe the opportunities and challenges of e-labeling for all stakeholders
- Describe the importance and value of health literacy in creation of patient medication information
- Describe best practices in implementing e-labeling and health literacy globally
Speaker(s)
Case study: Integration of health literacy into the development of patient medication information
Laurie M. Myers, MBA
Global Health Literacy Director, Merck & Co., Inc. , United States
Global eLabeling Vision
Khyati Roberts, RPh
Retired, Retired, United States
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