Title:	USER TRAINING IN PRIMARY CARE PROCESSES THROUGH A SEMANTIC WIKI
Author(s):	D. Papakonstantinou, F. Malamateniou, G. Vassilacopoulos
ISBN:	978-972-8939-49-6
Editors:	Mário Macedo
Year:	2011
Edition:	Single
Keywords:	Semantic wiki; user training; primary care.
Type:	Full Paper
First Page:	28
Last Page:	34
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	Primary care brings promotion and prevention, cure and care together in a safe, effective and socially productive way at the interface between the population and the health system. The features of healthcare that are essential in ensuring improved health and social outcomes are person-centeredness, comprehensiveness and integration and continuity of care, with a regular entry into the health system, so that it becomes possible to build an enduring relationship of trust between patients and their healthcare providers. The adoption of a successful primary care system premises active participation of users who are familiar with the cooperative and collaborative nature of healthcare delivery. Thus, there is a need for reusable, flexible, agile and adaptable training content with the objective to enable healthcare professionals instill their knowledge and expertise in primary care processes. To this end, social software, such as a wiki, could be used as it supports cooperation and collaboration anytime, anywhere, combined with semantic web technology that enables structuring pieces of information for easy retrieval, reuse and exchange between different systems and tools. In this paper, a semantic wiki is presented as a means for developing training material for healthcare providers regarding healthcare processes in primary care. The semantic wiki should act as a collective online memory containing training material that is accessible to authorized users, thus enhancing the training process with collaboration and cooperation capabilities. It is also proposed that the semantic wiki is stored in a secure virtual private cloud that is accessible from anywhere, be it an excessively open environment, while meeting the requirements of redundancy, high performance and autoscaling.
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