Title: Computer-supported collaborative work systems and communication services in healthcare

Authors: Georgia Lazakidou-Kafetzi, Athina Lazakidou, Konstantinos Siassiakos

Addresses: University of Piraeus, Karaoli & Dimitriou Str. 80, GR-18534, Piraeus, Greece. ' University of Piraeus, Karaoli & Dimitriou Str. 80, GR-18534, Piraeus, Greece. ' University of Piraeus, Karaoli & Dimitriou Str. 80, GR-18534, Piraeus, Greece

Abstract: This paper aims to present the next step of our research on empowering the IPOEE-MED collaborative environment. This is a learning environment developed to facilitate a professor|s role while providing medical education to medical students through collaborative settings. Here, we extend its features in order that it can enrich the professor-to-student collaboration with real cases as they apply their knowledge in hospital departments. We call it |IPOEE MED plus| as it maintains the main features of our initial web-based tool, adding valuable modules and addressing it to a broader usage. It combines both educational and health-protective purposes in a cost-effective way. The estimated benefits concern all visible and invisible poles of collaboration as the empowered tool we propose can enrich the learning content as well as the in-time evaluation of the learning process. The latter advances a new practice for effective medical treatment by the graduate students while enhancing important theoretical issues of case-based learning.

Keywords: collaborative work systems; communication services; medical practice; patient treatment care; web-based learning environments; computer-supported collaborative work; CSCW; e-learning; online learning; medical education; collaboration; graduate students; case-based learning; healthcare management.

DOI: 10.1504/IJHTM.2008.017367

International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management, 2008 Vol.9 No.2, pp.127 - 135

Published online: 02 Mar 2008 *

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