A Web-based multimedia diabetes mellitus education tool for school nurses

Presents a Web-based diabetes mellitus education program for school nurses, called WebDiamen. Compared with existing systems for medical education using computer-assisted technologies, WebDiamen exhibits the advantages of a powerful browsing capability, a friendly GUI, an individualized presentation schedule tailored to each user based on their special browsing interests, powerful online processing and annotation capabilities, and powerful querying capabilities. The system is being evaluated for school nurses in Onondaga County, NY, USA.