Poster
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6th Internet World Congress for Biomedical Sciences |
B. Klinge(1), J. Parker(2)
(1)Institute of Odontology. Karolinska Institute - Huddinge. Sweden
(2)Axia Health - Calgary. Canada
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B. Klinge Institute of Odontology Karolinska Institute P.O. Box 4064 S-141 04 Huddinge Sweden john.parker@axia.com |
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Access to computer and IP-based technologies is experiencing continued exponential growth. While lagging behind other industry sectors, the health care industry is expected to triple percentage of total revenue expenditures on information technology by 2005.
The prevalence of unregulated and often inaccurate health related information on the Internet is increasing, prompting many to call for standards whereby authorship, attribution, disclosure, scientific quality, accessibility, timeliness and readability of electronically published materials may be evaluated. Further, given the nature by which IP-based technologies can bring together communities of experts and learners, many are now calling for internationally accepted standards of continuing education for health care professionals. While strategies whereby continuing health professional education programs may be best designed have yet to be fully defined, computer and IP-based learning programs provide cost effective and instantaneous access to knowledge learning which may be of direct benefit to patient care and outcome.
We believe the Global Center for Knowledge in Oral Health addresses each of these issues and positions Karolinska Institute and the Institute of Odontology as leaders in globally distributed continuing education for oral health care professionals. Further, we believe the Global Center for Knowledge in Oral Health is a focused information technology vision that has the capacity to allocate the extensive resources necessary to make such a vision a coherent reality for the global community of oral health care professionals (3).
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