"PERCH advances SDG 3 by streamlining healthcare communication through a compiled database that assists patients with limited healthcare literacy."
– Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship
in collaboration with the MetLife Foundation
Learn more about the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
What people love about PERCH
“It is proactive, automated, and simple, making it trustable.”
Anonymous Physician
“PERCH makes the medical process more approachable for
the audience based on their background and specific needs
. . . and provides the tools to disarm the process and make it more user friendly.”
Anonymous Patient
“It's driven to make patients feel more comfortable.”
Anonymous Physician
“PERCH has the potential to dramatically improve patient care.”
Anonymous Patient
Addressing health literacy could...
1 million
hospital visits annually
prevent nearly
$25 billion
a year
save over
90 million
patients
improve care for over
Tailoring
Physicians’ Communication
to Patients’ Needs
Health literacy is the degree to which individuals have the ability to find, understand, and use information and services to inform health-related decisions and actions for themselves and others.
– Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (read more)
Whereas
Why PERCH?
Training Programs & Toolkits
Existing Apps
Health Literacy Screeners
provide generalized strategies for all patients, but lack personalization.
focus on improving patients' health literacy, but require invested time and put pressure on patients.
determine patients' health literacy, but induce stigmas and reduced self-confidence, and do not identify next steps.
uses a data-driven and
research-backed approach to tailor strategies to individual patients and physicians.
is time-efficient and promotes patient-centered care by encouraging physicians to adjust their practices for each patient.
makes the process of sharing needs: (1) approachable by raising awareness and (2) transparent by providing actionable strategies and opening up dialogue.