title: Patient learning centre Soppi: A way to promote human-computer interaction in health care.
abstract: The Patient Learning Centre was founded in Hyvinkää Hospital in 2000 to support patients and their families' informational needs. In order to evaluate the Learning Centre's effectiveness we started a development project. One of the purposes was to analyze patients' Internet and computer use. The data for the describing survey-research was collected by questionnaires at two occasions. At the end of the project a number of patients who used internet had increased, one third did not use a computer at all. Getting information in discussions with the nurse was however the most important way. To develop user friendly methods in getting information is a challenge.
authors.affiliation: Hyvinkää Hospital, Hospital district of Helsinki and Uusimaa, Finland. tuija.alaranta@hus.fi
authors.forename: Tuija
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Alaranta
authors.forename: Heljä
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nenonen
authors.forename: Maritta
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Välimäki
authors.forename: Riitta
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Suhonen
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection; D005387:Finland; D006801:Humans; D008490:Medical Informatics; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014584:User-Computer Interface