What is it about?

Media richness is not required for sustainable communities of practice, there is greater effectiveness in knowledge sharing when virtual medical communities develop into communities of practice, communities of practice are sustainable when shared knowledge enhances medical practice

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Why is it important?

E-health and telemedicine have had limited success across the European Union (EU), but using online collaborative technologies to support a community of practice may enable a sustainable healthcare community

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This paper demonstrates that even using a simple text-based technology for social interaction can lead to effective and sustainable knowledge sharing communities

Dr Julian M Sims
Birkbeck University of London

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This page is a summary of: Communities of practice: Telemedicine and online medical communities, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, September 2016, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2016.08.030.
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