Developing collaborative virtual learning community for the Korean community health practitioners

Woojin Paik, Eunjung Ryu, Jaewook Choi, Hyeongsu Kim, Eunmi Ham

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    Abstract

    Community Health Post workers are mainly registered nurses. They provide first-level primary health care to the numerous underserved rural communities in Korea. The primary goal of our project is to provide technological foundation for the community health practitioners to form a virtual community that collaboratively solves problems and learns to improve their patient caring and treatment skills. The main enabling technology is a collaboratively maintained knowledge management system, which assists the community health practitioners to make appropriate diagnoses and also to determine the corresponding expected outcomes and interventions to perform given the patient's symptoms. The knowledge management system includes a knowledge base, which is converted from the standardized nursing process guidelines. In addition, the knowledge management system is also used as a case retrieval system so that the community health practitioners can compare the current case in progress with the similar prior cases. We have developed a prototype system and finished a preliminary evaluation of the system.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationInnovative Approaches for Learning and Knowledge Sharing - First European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2006, Proceedings
    PublisherSpringer Verlag
    Pages347-356
    Number of pages10
    ISBN (Print)3540457771, 9783540457770
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2006
    Event1st European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2006 - Crete, Greece
    Duration: 2006 Oct 12006 Oct 4

    Publication series

    NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
    Volume4227 LNCS
    ISSN (Print)0302-9743
    ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

    Other

    Other1st European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2006
    Country/TerritoryGreece
    CityCrete
    Period06/10/106/10/4

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Theoretical Computer Science
    • Computer Science(all)

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