Development of a Patient and Visitor Information Kiosk

ABSTRACT

This article will help to fulfill the health information needs for patients and visitors in the absence of a consumer health library at Oklahoma State University Medical Center. The target groups for this project were patients and visitors to OSUMC. The kiosk project is a creative solution to the problem of not having a consumer health library, and this article demonstrates that.

KEYWORDS:

• Consumer health information
• kiosk

This column is based on a contributed poster presented at the South Central Chapter/Medical Library Association Meeting held in Albuquerque, NM, in October 2007. This project has been funded in whole or in part with Federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, under Contract No. N01-LM-6-3505. The author thanks Jim Purdy, Library Volunteer, and Lou Ann Thompson, Library Assistant, for editing and proofreading this article.

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