BACKGROUND Cultural competency can be understood as those learned skills which help us understand cultural differences and ease communication between people who have different ways of understanding health, sickness and the body. Recently, medical schools have begun to recognise a need for cultural competency training. However, few reports have been published that articulate and evaluate cultura...

This paper explores the role of knowledge mapping in electronic government. It begins by outlining the rationale for knowledge mapping. It then reviews different conceptualisations of knowledge maps. These include concept, competency and process based maps. Then, it illustrates the application of these maps in a series of examples from the Australian government websites. The paper concludes by ...

The Communication Sciences Department at Case Western Reserve University is building an immersive virtual reality (IVR) cave simulation research laboratory to increase student clinical competency skills and carry over of therapeutic skills for children and adults with communication disorders. The use of this IVR simulation lab known as the Virtual Immersion Center for Simulation Research (VICSR...

Due to globalization, advanced information and communication technology has fuelled competition, and building and sustaining of competition advantages are major concerns of companies. Developing dynamic core competency has become a new competition strategy and an important way to help companies remain flexible and able to respond quickly to unpredicted changes in the environment. The developmen...

My paper discusses system consequence, which is a central idea in the project to lift the theory of information flow to the general level of universal logic and the theory of institutions. At the same time, it uses ideas from information flow to extend the theory of institutions. ICCS 2009, 26–31 July 2009 System Consequence Table of

Healthcare can be characterized as a complex adaptive system. New Zealand is recognized as having one of the highest rates of enmeshed clinical information and communication technology within this complex system. This paper describes the implementation of an integrated series of electronic clinical health knowledge management systems in a large New Zealand District Health Board. In combination ...

Since it was first introduced more than 30 years ago, clinical simulation has become a popular tool for medical training, particularly in crisis management. The modern high-fidelity patient simulator consists of a whole-body mannequin with integrated electronic patient monitoring; it is controlled by computers capable of simulating numerous clinical scenarios and patient characteristics, and re...

BACKGROUND Health workforce competencies are considered crucial for attaining high-quality health care in the current market principles approach to the provision of health services. This study explored the competencies and the perceived competence gap of management personnel in public primary healthcare. METHODS During 2007 and 2008, 14 management teams of Belgrade primary health-care centres...