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Dragonfly
Summer 2003 -- Volume 34, Number 3 |
by Beth Hill, AHIP, Information Specialist
Kootenai Medical Center Library, Coeur d'Alene, ID
In the last issue of Dragonfly, the Focus on Funding series presented information about a newly funded NLM Electronic Access to Health Information project in the Pacific Northwest region entitled "Computer Health Literacy for Seniors in Northern Idaho." Kootenai Medical Center Library in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho is the sponsoring agency, and work began on the project in the first week of March.
The purpose of this project is to improve access to electronic health information resources for seniors living in northern Idaho. The project's goals will be reached by implementing three project phases. The first phase, which is being conducted now, is determining the health literacy levels of a sample of northern Idaho's senior population. This is being done through the completion of two reading comprehension tests by senior volunteers. The outcomes of this research will be used to redesign a select group of patient discharge instructions to make them more usable for seniors. The second phase will involve holding focus groups of volunteer seniors, who will review medical and senior-focused websites, as well as the Kootenai Medical Center website, making suggestions as to how the websites could be changed to be more senior-friendly. A new senior focused website, linked from the KMC webpage, will be designed with the ideas presented. The third phase of the project will begin with the installation of one computer with Internet access at each of the three local senior centers. Basic computer training will be offered free of charge to interested seniors, while focusing on how to find good health information.
At the Medical Library Association (MLA) Annual Meeting in
San Diego last month, as the grant project's principal
investigator, I was able to promote the project by presenting a
traditional poster session. I attended the conference by being
awarded one of the EBSCO / MLA Annual Meeting Grants. To view the
poster, as well as ones from other groups in the Pacific
Northwest region, go to the poster gallery on MLANet:
http://www.mlanet.org/am/am2003/e_present/poster_gallery_1.html
Dragonfly, Summer 2003- Volume 34 Number 3
(posted on PNRNews on July 14, 2003)
This publication is funded in whole with Federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, under Contract No. N01-LM-1-3516.
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