The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP) invites you to the 3^rd annual health literacy Twitter Chat on October 25, 2012 at 3 p.m. EDT.

Using the hashtag #healthlit, please join @healthfinder, @HHS_DrKoh, @AHRQNews, @HealthLitMo and others to discuss IOM’s recent paper on the 10 Attributes of Health Literate Health Care Organizations. Share your ideas on how organizations can help people navigate, understand, and use information and services to take care of their health.

If you have health literacy resources that you’d like to share, either about this issue or related to other health literacy topics, please tweet those before the chat using the hashtag #healthlit. Following the chat, ODPHP will collect those resources and post them to http://health.gov/communication/literacy.

If you have any questions, please email healthfinder@nhic.org. Join our discussion on October 25^th and add your ideas to the conversation.

Today is the first day of Health Literacy Month, an idea proposed by health literacy consultant Helen Osborne. Many organizations and individuals now use October as a chance to raise awareness of health literacy and promote their projects.

What are you doing for Health Literacy Month? Check back often as we report on health literacy activities throughout the month.