Gastrointestinal Motility Online Educational Endeavor

Gastrointestinal Motility Online Educational Endeavor

Shiu-chung Au (State University of New York Upstate Medical University, USA) and Amar Gupta (University of Arizona, USA)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 20
DOI: 10.4018/jhisi.2008010102

Abstract

Medical information has been traditionally maintained in books, journals, and specialty periodicals. A growing subset of patients and caregivers are now turning to diverse sources on the internet to retrieve healthcare related information. The next area of growth will be sites that serve specialty fields of medicine, characterized by high quality of data culled from scholarly publications and operated by eminent domain specialists. One such site being developed for the field of Gastrointestinal Motility provides authoritative and current information to a diverse user base that includes patients and student doctors. Gastrointestinal Motility Online leverages the strengths of online textbooks, which have a high degree of organization, in conjunction with the strengths of online journal collections, which are more comprehensive and focused. Gastrointestinal Motility Online also utilizes existing Web technologies such as Wiki-editing and Amazonstyle commenting, to automatically assemble information from heterogeneous data sources.

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