HOSPITALIS - Healthcare Online Shared Platform for Increasing Tessin and Lombardy Immigrants’ Treatment and Assistance
People
(Responsible)
(Coordinator)
Abstract
Within this project an online platform for continuing education towards healthcare assistance to patients who are immigrants from developing countries had been developed. The platform is addressed to the healthcare personnel working in the cross-border areas of Tessin and Lombardy. Furthermore, the project developed online courses dealing with biometric, epidemiologic, therapeutic, and linguistic issues concerning the doctor-patient interaction, issues concerning the psychology of communication, medical anthropology and intercultural communication, demographic issues, and legal issues.
Additional information
Acronym
HOSPITALIS
Start date
01.01.2003
End date
01.01.2005
Duration
24 Months
Funding sources
Swiss Confederation
Status
Ended
Category
European and International Programmes /
Interreg
Publications
- Tardini S., Bachmann Tampouratzis L., Cantoni L. (2004) eLearning and Continuing Education in Healthcare: the Hospitalitas Project. in L. Cantoni & C. McLoughlin (eds.) 2004, 4640-4645
- Cantoni L., Tardini S., Bachmann Tampouratzis L. (2004) L´e-learning nella formazione continua del personale sanitario in Svizzera. Un breve quadro d´insieme e un progetto in collaborazione con la Lombardia
- Bachmann Tampouratzis L., Cigognini E., Tardini S., Cantoni L. (2004) The HOSPITALITAS project in the context of continuing medical education in Switzerland. in D.P. Paul, III (ed.), Proceedings of Third International Healthcare Conference: Global Engagement in Creating Financially Viable Healthcare Systems, Charleston, West Virginia, pp. 24-34
