Development of a Know-how Information Sharing System for Care Planning Processes

The purpose of this study is the establishment of a method and the development of a support system for educating personnel involved in care management by computer. We propose a system in which know-how information can be shared. We consider that visualizing and showing care plans drawn up by experts in various forms allows a beginner to see the differences between a novice plan and an expert plan. Sharing know-how information is possible by recording, accumulating, and giving titles to what has been noticed by comparing documents. This system can visualize the similarities among documents that interpreted the results of an assessment and can flexibly change viewpoints. Additionally, it can map a user´s and another beginner´s new document into a two-dimensional document space. Through evaluations by experts in nursing and caring, we confirmed that this system could be educational.