Usalpharma: A Cloud-Based Architecture to Support Quality Assurance Training Processes in Health Area Using Virtual Worlds

• Published in: TheScientificWorld Vol. 2014; no. 2014; pp. 1 - 10
• Main Authors: Martín-Suárez, Ana, Pérez-Blanco, Jonás Samuel, Maderuelo, Cristina, Cruz-Benito, Juan, García-Peñalvo, Francisco J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cairo, Egypt Hindawi Publishing Corporation 01.01.2014; John Wiley & Sons, Inc; Wiley
• Subjects: Cloud computing; Colleges & universities; Computer-Assisted Instruction; Decision making; Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures - standards; Drug stores; Education, Medical - methods; Education, Medical - standards; Education, Pharmacy, Graduate - methods; Education, Pharmacy, Graduate - standards; Employee training; Health care industry; Health education; Health Education - methods; Health Education - standards; Human resource management; Humans; Imaging, Three-Dimensional; Internet; Laboratories; Learning; Methods; Pharmaceutical industry; Pharmaceutical sciences; Pharmacy; Professionals; Quality assurance; Quality Control; Reproducibility of Results; Software; Software Design; Students; Teachers; Technology application; Training; User-Computer Interface; Virtual communities; Virtual reality; Spain
• ISSN: 2356-6140; 1537-744X; 1537-744X
• DOI: 10.1155/2014/659364

This paper discusses how cloud-based architectures can extend and enhance the functionality of the training environments based on virtual worlds and how, from this cloud perspective, we can provide support to analysis of training processes in the area of health, specifically in the field of training processes in quality assurance for pharmaceutical laboratories, presenting a tool for data retrieval and analysis that allows facing the knowledge discovery in the happenings inside the virtual worlds.