WebOnCOLL: An Open Platform Enabling Collaborative Information Sharing and its Application in Medicine *
Catherine E. Chronaki, Dimitrios G. Katehakis, Manolis Tsiknakis · 1998
Abstract: WebOnCOLL is an open web-based collaboration environment, which has been used in the design of a virtual medical office. It employs the Healthcare Information Infrastructure of regional networks to support teamwork through integrated services that provide access to regional resource, information, and collaboration facilities including personalized web pages, information channels, bulletin boards, discussion lists, annotations, e-mail, and shared workspaces. These collaboration services are the centerpieces of the virtual medical office, which can be used to provide media-rich teleconsultation services. 1 WebOnCOLL Integrated Collaboration Services The Healthcare Information Infrastructure of a regional network includes high-speed networks and a wide range of regional information services that operate as enabling/middleware services [1]. Regional directory, resource, and security services may interoperate with web-based collaboration services for information channels, annotations, e-mail, and on-line teamware. WebOnCOLL [2] employs the HII to provide integrated web-based collaboration services, customized for the healthcare domain. WebOnCOLL is currently used as a platform in the design of a virtual medical office. A virtual medical office can support a network of experts that provide healthcare-related consultation services. Within the network, private conversation, secure e-mail, audio and video conferencing, as well as personalized web