title: Education and training in the MEDICOM system.
abstract: MEDICOM system is a world wide telematics application for electronic commerce of medical devices. It has been designed so as to provide the health care professionals with a central Internet access to up-to-date information about medical equipment from multiple manufacturers, in a particular easy and friendly way. Moreover, the Medicom system will serve the health care professionals' requirements for high-quality information about specific products in a form of multimedia presentations and that of a secure communication channel with the community of manufacturers, especially for post marketing surveillance. The system will provide the medical staff (physicians and technicians) with demonstrations of the operation procedures and the functioning of high-tech equipment in a form of virtual models. Moreover, through the medicom system the end users of medical devices can have access to on line libraries and participate in special newsgroups. This paper discusses the architectural structure of the MEDICOM system with emphasis to its educational and training functionality.
authors.affiliation: National Technical University of Athens, Biomedical Engineering Laboratory, Greece.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Marinos
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Palamas
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Vlachos
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Panou-Diamandi
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kalivas
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Koutsouris
mesh_terms: D003132:Commerce; D003200:Computer User Training; D004864:Equipment and Supplies / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000193:education*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020407:Internet; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000193:education*; D014584:User-Computer Interface