title: Integrated Patient Education on U.S. Hospital Web Sites.
abstract: Based on a census of the 2015 Most Wired Hospitals, this content analysis aimed to find out how patient education has been integrated on these best IT hospitals' Web sites to serve the purposes of marketing and meeting online visitors' needs. This study will help hospitals to understand where the weaknesses are in their interactive patient education implementation and come up with a smart integration strategy. The study found that 70% of these hospitals had adopted interactive patient education contents, 76.6% of such contents were from a third-party developer, and only 20% of the hospitals linked their patient education contents to one or more of the hospital's resources while 26% cross-references such contents. The authors concluded that more hospitals should take advantage of modern information communication technology to cross-reference their patient education contents and to integrate such contents into their overall online marketing strategy to benefit patients and themselves.
authors.affiliation: School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, USA.
authors.forename: Edgar
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.affiliation: School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, USA.
authors.forename: Kerong
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.affiliation: School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, USA.
authors.forename: Kelsey
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Edwards
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D014481:United States