Paper Info
Title
Enabling interoperability, accessibility and reusability of virtual patients across Europe - design and implementation.
Abstract
Virtual Patients (VPs) have successfully been integrated into medical and healthcare curricula for a number of years. Lack of time and resources is a frequently reported problem encountered when developing VPs for teaching and learning. Consequently there is a need for cross-institutional repositories of VPs. The aims of the study were two-fold: to enable interoperability between virtual patient systems and to investigate if (and how) an application profile is implemented in four different types of VP systems. This European collaborative implementation of a blend of several specifications (Medbiquitous VP XML, Medbiquitous Healthcare LOM, and SCORM) is innovative and the study has shown a variation in how the application profile could be implemented.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.3233/978-1-60750-044-5-826
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
standardization,virtual patients,simulation,interoperability
Data mining,World Wide Web,Application profile,XML,Interoperability,Virtual patient,Curriculum,Medicine,Reusability
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
150
0926-9630
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.61
2
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nabil Zary11911.98
Inga Hege276.14
Jörn Heid3123.81
Luke Woodham432.30
Jeroen Donkers584.23
Andrzej A Kononowicz61712.77