Spironto is a tool for semantic annotation of patient documentation. Chronological entries can be enriched by concepts that can be defined and modified by users. Originally it has been developed to assist interdisciplinary teams in palliative care, but can be used also for other care situations where (i) doctors, nurses and other professions have to Full Article…
Professionals in health and social care are involved in learning every day. Learning in practice (which could include learning based on reflecting on patient cases, from patients themselves, twitter and other social media exchanges, discussions with colleagues, reviewing new guidelines or research, or sharing learning with others) helps to ensure that high quality patient care is maintained and developed. However, learning effectively from practice and then transferring that learning back into practice has many challenges especially given the time pressures on professionals. Can apps and learning technology help?
See: HANDI and Learning Layers Workshop- http://handihealth.org/events/health-and-social-care-professionals-can-an-app-help-you-learn-in-practice/
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Living Documents for Maturing Knowledge Wireframes
In many areas currently information is pushed in a top-down way. This applies to clinical guidelines, their local implementation plans, but also other organizational rules and agreements. The problems associated with it are manifold: – Too much information is pushed without taking into account the current state of the individual (what is new, what is Full Article…
Seek Support Use Case and Wireframes
Trust has been found to be key aspect when seeking support, but the concept seems to incorporate many different individual aspects that need further investigation. Theory or approach: Personal learning networks / aggregated trustworthiness (perceived credibility) = social validation + authority and trustee + profiles. Main References: Cook, J., & Pachler, N. (2012). Online people Full Article…
User Story: Practice based learning using significant event analysis
In what situation? Learning trigger? Liz is a GP and presents a significant event at the regular practice learning meeting. The significant event is a patient (an 83 year old lady) who suffers a broken hip following a fall at home. The patient was taking metformin for her diabetes and her daughter says that for Full Article…
Reflect App – recording ideas and learning
Reflect is an Android App for phones and tablets developed by students from Hochschule Karlsruhe (Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences) for Pontydysgu as part of the Learning Layers Project. The original idea came from talking with a doctor in the UK at a Learning layers workshop. He explained how little time he had to reflect Full Article…
User Story: Learning by practice team members – [Health Care context]
In what situation? Learning trigger? Mary is a practice nurse with a special interest in diabetes. She sees a 78 year old patient who is having a side effect that she thinks is due to a new tablet (medication) that the patient has just started taking for their diabetes. She is unsure if it is Full Article…
User Story: Learning from other’s experiences – [Health Care context]
In what situation? Learning trigger? John is a GP and has just seen a 52 year old patient in surgery. The patient has had diabetes for five years but the patient does not want to have any medication, despite his blood sugar continuing to rise. John is unsure whether to be more forceful in his Full Article…
User Story: Informal learning – handover of patient care [Health Care context]
In what situation? Learning trigger? Brian is a GP on a home visit to a 62 year old patient with diabetes who was discharged from hospital the previous day with an infected foot. The patient is on antibiotics but both the patient and Brian are unsure for how long the patient should be on antibiotics Full Article…
User Story: Cascading Learning [Health Care context]
In what situation? Learning trigger? Peter is a Doctor (GP) involved in running the Diabetic Clinic at Rowland Green Medical Centre (GP Practice). He and his practice partners know (from information sent to them by professional bodies, the NHS and from their reading of professional websites) that the NHS has produced new pathway (guidelines) on Full Article…
SOBOLEO – Semantic Social Bookmarking for Social Learning
SOBOLEO is a web-based system to help users share knowledge and experience more easily. Users collaboratively create a topic list and use this to tag people and web resources. This list is used as background knowledge during searches. SOBOLEO consists of 4 main parts: Search: A search engine that searches through tagged resources using the Full Article…