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• The Department of Nursing Science

Implications

• The study will offer a tool to be used in everyday practice in mental health care and information about the impacts of IT on health care and its effectiveness.
   
• The study attempts to provide evidence-based information about the acceptability, feasibility and cost-effectiveness of IT used in mental health care.
   
• From the patient perspective, the study will provide new information on the clinical effects of IT on patient well-being and daily functioning.
   
• From the staff and organisational perspectives, we have better opportunities to recognise future needs and problems when IT services are fully accessible to all citizens, and more knowledge of the problems and benefits of controlled utilization of the new health technology and how it should be implemented.
   
• The study gathers evidence of cost-effectiveness of IT in everyday clinical practice from the perspective of the health service.
   
• This multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary study connects together citizens, practitioners, universities, and authorities and will create new research contacts and networks. It brings together an international research group including scholars from various disciplines and transmits knowledge and experience.

• The project is relevant to postgraduate education as it furthers the researchers’ capacity to collaborate with end users, professionals, industry and various branches of science.

02.09.2008 12:22 Ninja Lehtonen