WebOnCOLL: medical collaboration in regional healthcare networks

Author

Chronaki, Catherine E. ; Katehakis, Dimitrios G. ; Zabulis, Xenophon C. ; Tsiknakis, Manolis ; Orphanoudakis, Stelios C.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Comput. Sci., Found. for Res. & Technol., Heraklion, Greece

Volume

1

Issue

4

fYear

1997

Firstpage

257

Lastpage

269

Abstract

Presents WebOnCOLL, a World Wide Web-based medical collaboration environment, which has been designed in the context of the regional healthcare network of Crete. WebOnCOLL employs the infrastructure of regional healthcare networks to provide integrated services for virtual workspaces, annotations, e-mail and online collaboration. Virtual workspaces support collaborative concepts like personal Web pages, bulletin boards, discussion lists, shared workspaces and medical case folders. Annotations provide a natural way for people to interact with multimedia content, while e-mail is one of the most popular forms of communication today. Online collaboration satisfies the need for a more direct form of communication.

Keywords

Internet; electronic mail; groupware; health care; medical information systems; multimedia communication; Crete; WebOnCOLL; World Wide Web; annotations; bulletin boards; communication; computer-supported cooperative work; discussion lists; electronic mail; healthcare information infrastructure; integrated services; medical case folders; medical collaboration; medical digital libraries; multimedia content; online collaboration; personal Web pages; regional healthcare networks; shared workspaces; virtual workspaces; Application software; Biomedical imaging; Collaboration; Collaborative work; Computer science; Electronic mail; Intelligent networks; Intserv networks; Medical services; Web pages; Biomedical Technology; Cooperative Behavior; Greece; Humans; Internet; Regional Medical Programs;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Information Technology in Biomedicine, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7771

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/4233.681170

Filename

681170