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Checkup!A MedBiquitous Progress Update

Peter Greene, MDExecutive Director, MedBiquitousApril 17, 2006

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MedBiquitous Mission

To advance healthcare education through technology standards that promote professional competence, collaboration, and better patient care.

Non-profit, member-driven, standards development organization

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ANSI Accredited Technology Standards Developer

• Healthcare education and training

• Healthcare professional competence assessment, certification, and licensure

• Healthcare professional and scientific publications

• Healthcare professional online communities and portals

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Fast Facts

• 65 member organizations• 7 working groups• ANSI process

• Openness• Transparency• Consensus• Due Process

• Work with leading organizations that can drive adoption (AAMC, ABMS, ACCME, NBME, FSMB, AMA, AAFP, VA)

ProfessionalProfile

LearningObjects

ActivityReport

Metrics

Virtual Patient

Competency

Point of Care Learning

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Standards Development Work

ProfessionalProfile

E-portfolio

HealthcareLOM

Activity Report

Virtual Patients

Competency

MetricsSCORM

for Healthcare

POCLearning

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Service Oriented Architectures (SOA)

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Time for a Checkup!

How do we know that we are a healthy standards development organization?

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Growth

• 65 members• 51% growth since last year• Lower member fees• Growth target: 100 members

by 2009• Broader input• Critical mass

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New Member: Medscape

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Balance

• Technical and pedagogical expertise

• Learning technologies and data interchange

• Non-profit and commercial interests

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Rosalyn Scott, M.D.

• Co-Chair Competency Working Group

• Cardiothoracic surgeon at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine

• Great networker of competency experts

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Regular Cycles

• Through standards development process!

• Professional Profile completed public review

• Healthcare LOM in public review

Announcement

Development

ReviewBallot

Audit

Proposal

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Gabrielle Campbell

• Chair, MedBiquitous Standards Committee

• Director of Business Development, AAMC

• Ensures proper process for development of MedBiquitous/ANSI standards

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Plays Well With Others• Professional Medicine

• ACCME• NBME• FSMB• AAMC• AMA• ABMS

• SDOs• HITSP• ADL• HL7• HR-XML• IMS

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Review of Systems

• Are your members happy?• Do they participate?• Are you financially sound?• Are people using what you

develop?• Are you having an impact on

healthcare education?

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A Look at Two Standards

• Virtual Patient

• Activity Report

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Virtual Patients

• E-learning resources that simulate clinical scenarios

• Developed in isolations, but very similar

• Standards necessary to enable sharing across systems

• Most active working group in MedBiquitous

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Rachel Ellaway, Ph.D.

• Co-chair Virtual Patient Working Group

• E-Learning Manager, University of Edinburgh College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine

• Created component-based virtual patient architecture

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Terry Poulton, Ph.D.

• Associate Dean for E-learning, St. George’s University of London

• Project Director, eViP• eViP participants

• St. Georges• Karolinska Institute• LMU Munich• U of Edinburgh• Maastricht• Heidelberg• Warwick• Jagiellonian University • University “Iuliu Hatieganu” Cluj-

Napoca

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Susan Albright• Director, Tufts

University Science Knowledgebase

• Hewlett Foundation grant to create an open source VP Player to support open courseware

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Activity Report

• Standard format for digital CME certificates• E-portfolio systems receive data from providers• Supports Maintenance of Certification and Licensure• XML can be embedded in PDF for printable

certificate document

E-PortfolioSystem

John Doe’s Portfolio

CME•Course 1•Course 2•Course 3

Certifying Board

Licensing BoardCMEProvider

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CME Certificate with Embedded XML

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Reporting Journal CME Data

• Using MedBiquitous Activity report to send Journal CME data to providers

Utah & Lorena Hitchens

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Making it Easier to Find CME: CMEOhio

• Common CME portal for Ohio medical schools

• Leveraging SCORM and Healthcare LOM

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The VITAL Project

• Collaboration for healthcare education• VA, Navy, Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Indian Health Service• Leveraging SCORM and Healthcare LOM

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Tools Supporting Standards

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Setting Goals for Better Health• Standardization of other specifications• Research into best practices• Development of implementation guides• Development of conformance tests

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Standards are a Design Challenge• Do we need a

standard?• Who are the users?• How will they use it?• Is it fit for purpose?• How can I tell if

something is conformant?

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We need your help! Participate!

Weds 7:30am Competency WGActivity Report WG

Weds 12 noon Virtual Patient WG

Point of Care Learning WG

Weds 3:30pm Learning Objects WG

Metrics WG

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Wiki for Working Groups

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