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In this paper, we report the findings from the pre-studies of gamified solutions in healthcare (GSH) project, which include mapping the existing games for seniors, conducting a pre-test on console games, interviewing elderly, and a literature review on the motivational factors for elderly. The findings showed us the limitations of the existing games and technologies. The literature review gave the useful game design opportunities. The insights from these pre-studies helped us to form the agenda, activities, and plan for our project. According to the proposed activities, we conducted a pilot testing of existing games with elderly and found out that the existing games have potential to be re-used with further modifications in our project. Furthermore, we learned the important lessons from this testing in terms of game design, interaction, and design opportunities. Then, we continue to redesign the existing games and develop new games followed by a usability testing.

Information technology is diversing in healthcare and with it raises the need to diverse the evaluation as well. Individual impacts are often neglected when evaluating IT at work. Healthcare is a stressful sector and besides the traditional stress, exposed to IT related stress due its structure and personnel. In this paper some general needs for re-evaluating of IT evaluation are addressed. Moreover a new perspective-IT related stress-is presented to broad the evaluation. The main purpose of this paper is to develop a theoretical model based on widely used TAM-model to evaluate IT stress as a factor of IT acceptance.

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Abstract. Many areas of the healthcare sector are information-rich and data-intensive, and often lack of time is a problem. Patient-specific medication information is often seen as highly important part of patient data for patients' safe treatment and therefore the availability of it should be guaranteed. The aim of this paper is to study healthcare professionals' perceptions of their utilization of sources of medication information and to assess it in the light of national e-Health scenarios using a Finnish primary care organization as a case study. The healthcare professionals reported frequent use of the patient as a source of information as they could not be convinced of the correctness of the medication lists in the electronic patient record. The future e-Health solutions should be usable and guarantee the correctness and completeness of the medication information if the clinical workers are expected to use them. The valuable information provided by the patients could be also exploited more efficiently in the future.