Validating Effective Interventions in Patient/Family Education Using Tablet Computers

ABSTRACT

Patient education at the bedside, with Android tablet computers, has proven to be successful at the University of South Alabama Children’s & Women’s Hospital in Mobile, Alabama. Plans to expand the program within the USA Health System were made possible with a National Network of Libraries of Medicine Southeastern Atlantic Region Technology Improvement Award in 2018. This article discusses the implementation of tablet computers in a larger hospital setting within the USA Health System and discusses the impact of the educational interventions used in patient education within this health disparate community.

KEYWORDS:

• Chronic diseases
• family education
• health videos
• healthcare disparities
• patient education as topic
• program evaluation
• tablet computers

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Funding

Developed resources reported in this publication are supported by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health (NIH) under cooperative agreement number UG4LM012340 with the University of Maryland, Health Sciences and Human Services Library. The content is solely the responsibility of the author and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.