Survey on the Demand of Information Service among the Medical Staff from Primary Health Services in Zhejiang Province

Objective To evaluate the demand of information service among the medical staff from primary health services and to provide guide for health information technology. Methods A questionnaire survey was conducted among 4239 medical staff,selected from primary health services in Zhejiang province by stratified randomly sampling. Results 61.6% of the medical staff had the experience of the community medical software and 20.4% of whom was satisfied before the year of 2008.31.6% of the medical staff thought the software can not meet the working requirement.28.5% of the medical staff had no any computer proficiency certificate and 44.2% of whom hadn't participated in the information technology knowledge and skills training. Conclusion The medical staff of the primary health services generally approved the role of the current information work and the rate of satisfaction was lower.Health management should accelarate the construction of health informatization and the training service as soon as possible.