title: Learning teams and networks: using information technology as a means of managing work process development in healthcare organizations.
abstract: This article focuses on the introduction of team learning and shared knowledge creation using computer-based learning environments and teams as networks in the development of healthcare organizations. Using computer technology, care units can be considered learning teams and the hospital a network of those learning teams. Team learning requires that the healthcare workers' intellectual capital and personal competence be viewed as an important resource in developing the quality of action of the entire healthcare organization.
authors.affiliation: University of Tampere, Finland.
authors.forename: Vesa
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Korhonen
authors.forename: Eija
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Paavilainen
mesh_terms: D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education*; D009746:Nursing, Team