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Computer Supported Cooperative Work—Exploratory Study on CSCW and Groupware Technologies and its Applicability in the Health Area

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Since the dawn of human civilization that cooperation among individuals is observed. In the most primitive stage this phenomenon was manifested through hunting groups, progressing to the construction of objects and buildings and in a later phase in the construction of modern society itself. Nowadays with the advent of technology and rise of ICT, collaborative processes across workgroups in organizations have been increasingly supported by this concept. The use of technology for supporting collaborative processes of working groups led to the creation of areas of study as CSCW and Groupware. In the health area, collaborative platforms have been used for supporting medical distance learning, social networks for collaboration, patient monitoring, discussion forums and sharing of medical media content. This paper has the goal of analyzing technological advances and the application of collaborative platforms in the health area, through an exploratory work of literature and application analysis and discussion.

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  1. University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal

    Frederico Branco, Ramiro Gonçalves, José Martins, José Bessa & Ana Baptista

  2. INESC TEC and UTAD, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Frederico Branco, Ramiro Gonçalves & José Martins

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Branco, F., Gonçalves, R., Martins, J., Bessa, J., Baptista, A. (2016). Computer Supported Cooperative Work—Exploratory Study on CSCW and Groupware Technologies and its Applicability in the Health Area. In: Rocha, Á., Correia, A., Adeli, H., Reis, L., Mendonça Teixeira, M. (eds) New Advances in Information Systems and Technologies. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 445. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31307-8_40

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