ICT technologies should be useful tools for the acquisition and the increase of knowledge and skills in the field of medicine. The application of ICT in the health sector could provide a better quality of life to the citizens and an easier job environment for physicians and other health care workers. ICT can be used wherever it has a clear benefit, such as reaching remote populations, offering the tools for building a national health network and providing continuous training for doctors and hospital attendants, sharing knowledge between institutions and countries. In this latter field ICT services, and in particular E-Learning, could allow an effective improvement of training, management and organization of medical staff. So the introduction of e-health (health services and information delivered or enhanced through the Internet and related technologies) represents the promise of information and communication technologies to improve health and the health care system. The Uro project is set in this scenario. In fact it aims to prepare a “new professional”, named Content Therapist, in the area of Urinary Incontinence by integrating specific preparation in the field of urology with disciplines principally concerned with gynecology, obstetrics, physical and rehabilitative medicine, neurology, coloproctology, geriatrics, paediatrics. It is foreseen the extensive use of New Educational Technologies and of E-Learning approach. The main activities are concentrated on the preparation of a curriculum for appropriate studies for the training of human resources, from both Asian and European countries and course material (content definition, teaching tools, production/printing of course material), their dissemination and the demonstration of the realized training services. In particular the target groups are medical attendants of Italy, Slovenia, India and China Hospitals. The project, by means of E-Learning approach and Information Communication Technologies, aims to provide and the test a mechanism for the exchange of information relating to state-of-the-art methodologies and technology in the various components of care and assistance. In this paper we describe the general aims of URO project and the results of the first activities.

The URO Project - A new curriculum to improve the “quality of life” forpeople with URinary incontinence by the use of ICT

COLACE, Francesco;DE SANTO, Massimo
2007-01-01

Abstract

ICT technologies should be useful tools for the acquisition and the increase of knowledge and skills in the field of medicine. The application of ICT in the health sector could provide a better quality of life to the citizens and an easier job environment for physicians and other health care workers. ICT can be used wherever it has a clear benefit, such as reaching remote populations, offering the tools for building a national health network and providing continuous training for doctors and hospital attendants, sharing knowledge between institutions and countries. In this latter field ICT services, and in particular E-Learning, could allow an effective improvement of training, management and organization of medical staff. So the introduction of e-health (health services and information delivered or enhanced through the Internet and related technologies) represents the promise of information and communication technologies to improve health and the health care system. The Uro project is set in this scenario. In fact it aims to prepare a “new professional”, named Content Therapist, in the area of Urinary Incontinence by integrating specific preparation in the field of urology with disciplines principally concerned with gynecology, obstetrics, physical and rehabilitative medicine, neurology, coloproctology, geriatrics, paediatrics. It is foreseen the extensive use of New Educational Technologies and of E-Learning approach. The main activities are concentrated on the preparation of a curriculum for appropriate studies for the training of human resources, from both Asian and European countries and course material (content definition, teaching tools, production/printing of course material), their dissemination and the demonstration of the realized training services. In particular the target groups are medical attendants of Italy, Slovenia, India and China Hospitals. The project, by means of E-Learning approach and Information Communication Technologies, aims to provide and the test a mechanism for the exchange of information relating to state-of-the-art methodologies and technology in the various components of care and assistance. In this paper we describe the general aims of URO project and the results of the first activities.
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