[Negative and positive attitudes to EDP installation in Varkaus District Hospital]

This study was undertaken to describe the attitudes of the personnel of a hospital toward automatic data processing. We describe also the change in the attitudes during a four-year adp-system development. In 1984 123 persons were interviewed in Varkaus district hospital in Eastern Finland. The number of interviewed persons in the same hospital in 1988 was 125. During the four years the attitudes became more positive. Nearly all personnel groups changed their attitudes. Only the clerical staff on the wards had more negative attitudes in 1988 than in 1984. That was mostly due to ample amount of faults both in hardware and software at the time interviewing took place. That was even seen in the attitudes of the out-patient clinic personnel who had to work with the same problems. High level both in base and in data processing education had effect on positive attitudes.