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Laying the Groundwork for Collaboration:A MedBiquitousUpdate

Peter Greene, MDExecutive Director, MedBiquitousApril 29, 2008

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Time for Change in Healthcare?

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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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Fast Facts

• 60+ member organizations• 7 working groups• ANSI process

• Openness• Transparency• Consensus• Due Process

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

ProfessionalProfile

LearningObjects

ActivityReport

Metrics

Virtual Patient

Competency

Point of Care Learning

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Key Question

“What are the electronic messages, documents, and datasets that need to be exchanged to promote great learning in healthcare?”

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Standards Development Work

ProfessionalProfile

E-portfolio

HealthcareLOM

Activity Report

Virtual Patients

Competency

MetricsSCORM

for Healthcare

POCLearning

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What’s New?

We are seeing increasing use of our standards in important new education systems.

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AOA and MedScape

• CME data transmitted to AOA

• Tracking CME credits for 70,000 osteopathic physicians

• Used MedBiquitous Activity Report

• 11,000 certificates in first few weeks

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What’s New?

We continue to attract the most creative collaborators in health education IT.

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eViP Team

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Sample Virtual Patients from eVip

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Virtual Patients inside Second Life

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vpSim

Dr. J.B. McGeeLaboratory for Educational TechnologyUniversity of Pittsburgh

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Competency

• WG Co-Chairs:• Tim Willet, MD• Rosalyn Scott, MD

• Review of frameworks• Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education

(ACGME) Competencies• Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Competencies• American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN)

General Patient Care Competencies• CanMEDS 2005• CanMEDS Specialty Competencies• Good Medical Practice (UK)• Good Medical Practice (USA)• The Scottish Doctor• Tomorrow's Doctors• Women's Healthcare Competencies

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Implementation Guidelines for Medical Education Metrics• Med-IQ

• Scott Weber• Peter Sheldon

• Pilot MEMS• Create guidelines

for other CME providers

• Communication campaign

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What’s New?

We are gathering evidence about where health education IT standards bring value.

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eViP Guidelines

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Special Issue of Medical Teacher• Topic: Virtual Patients• 13 articles• Numerous VP topics

and authors from last year’s meeting

• Growing evidence base

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XML Conformance

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MedBiquitous Process

• Approves new standards projects

• Meets via telco, in person

• Develops specifications

• Consensus body

• Oversees public review (45 days) and votes (6 weeks)

• Final approval

Working groups

Standards committee

ANSI

Executive committee

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ANSI Progress

• Formal Standards• Healthcare Learning

Object Metadata• Professional Profile

• Public Review• Activity Report• (Point of Care Learning)• Medical Education Metrics

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We need your help! Participate!

Thurs 7:15 am Competency WG

Professional Profile WG

Thurs 12 noon Activity Report WG

Metrics WG

Thurs 3:30 pm Learning Objects WG

Point of Care Learning WG