Abstract:

Objective To build an intelligent cloud inpatient health education platform and explore the application effect with diabetes patients preliminary. Methods The public cloud and private cloud computing technology were integrated to build an intelligent cloud inpatient health education platform. The platform has three ports：clinical nursing，patient management and nursing management. It has the functions of sending diabetes multimedia education content，receiving health education evaluation feedback，and grading health education management. A diabetes health education resource library was built，taking diabetic patients as a pilot and classified them based on types. In addition to in-person education，nurses sent health education information to patients via the platform according to patients’ needs and path-based forms and make sure patients read it. The head nurse checked nurses’ implementation and health education feedback through the platform. The study compared the nurses’ time spent on patient health education and patients’ satisfaction before（30 patients from September to November 2018 as the control group） and after（30 patients from September to November 2020 as the test group） the application of the platform. Also，25 nurses were surveyed with a questionnaire about their satisfaction with the platform. Results After application of the platform，time of nursing health education was（12.25±7.38） min，which was significantly lower compared to（26.36±8.07） min before using the platform（t=6.933，P<0.001）. No significant difference was founded in patients’ satisfaction of health education（43.13±4.63 vs 41.50±6.28，t=2.406，P=0.257）. The average satisfaction score from nurses of the platform was ≥4. Conclusion The intelligent cloud inpatient health education platform is helpful in reducing the time spent on health education and improving the patients’ satisfaction. Besides，nurses were satisfied with the intelligent cloud inpatient health education platform.

Key words: Computer Communication Networks, Health Education, Inpatients, Diabetes Mellitus