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Overview

The University Hospitals and Clinics and the Rowland Medical Library at the University of Mississippi Medical Center have initiated a joint effort to develop a community-based health information facility. CHEC is funded by the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Southeastern/Atlantic Region of the National Library of Medicine, under a $40,000 sub-contract for an Access to Electronic Health Information for the Public project.

CHEC is a model interactive educational resource center to meet the health information needs of the patients, caregivers and the surrounding community. It will be a complement to the patient education services provided by health care professionals to the patients at their clinics. CHEC will increase the role of the health care providers in educating their patients by providing health information that the consumer is seeking, thus increasing compliance and helping patients become better partners in their own care. CHEC will also allow health professionals and students to access information and actively engage in patient education activities in a preceptorship ambulatory setting.

The center will have ready and easy access to a comprehensive collection of health information through numerous consumer health books, videos and pamphlets from different healthcare associations and organizations. The facility will provide consumers privacy to seek information and to read it while providing a safe convenient centralized site in pleasant surroundings. CHEC will also provide access to computers with Internet connections to access quality health information sources on the Internet. To further that end, the CHEC web site provides access to health information including numerous Mississippi health resources and Mississippi health topics to patients statewide. Professional staff and trained volunteers at the center will provide expertise to assist the public and health professionals in meeting their health information needs.

Objectives:

The center will:

• have ready and easy access to a comprehensive collection of health information.

• have computers with Internet connections to access quality health information sources on the Internet.

• provide consumers privacy to seek information and to read it while providing a safe convenient centralized site in pleasant surroundings.

• have staff and trained volunteers to provide expertise to assist the public and health professionals in meeting their health information needs.

• not be a substitute for the doctor’s and healthcare provider’s advice and recommendations to the patient.

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