Enabling Collaboration for Healthcare Education

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Enabling Collaboration for Healthcare Education

• Peter Greene, M.D.
• Executive Director
• Bridging Oases
• September 13, 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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The Fragmented Healthcare Industry
Industry
Universities
Societies
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CertifyingBoards
LicensingBoards
Government
Publishers
AccreditingBodies
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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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MedBiquitous Goals

• Better tracking and evaluation of professional
  education and certification activities
• Easier discovery of relevant education and
  information resources when and where needed
• Interoperability and sharing of high quality
  online education
• Coordination and tracking of competence
  assessment data

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Key Partnerships
Healthcare Information Technology Standards
Panel

• Clinical Systems
• Infobuttons
• Electronic Health Record

ContentPackaging

• Education
• SCORM
• CORDRA

• Learning Technology Standards Committee
• Competencies
• LOM

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Working Groups

• Professional Profile
• Standard for describing a healthcare professional
• Credentials verification, administration,
  identification
• Competencies
• Standard for describing competency data
• Competency framework
• Learning Objects
• Healthcare LOM (describing learning activities)
• SCORM for Healthcare (running e-learning)

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Working Groups

• Virtual Patient
• Standards for Web-based programs that simulate
  clinical encounter
• Activity Report
• Tracking CE/MoC activities
• Metrics
• Aggregate evaluation data
• Point of Care Learning
• Integration with clinical systems
• Tracking needs assessment and inquiry data

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Building the Foundation
POCLearning
E-portfolio
Activity Report
Virtual Patients
Metrics
SCORMfor Healthcare
ProfessionalProfile
HealthcareLOM
Competency
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The Value of MedBiquitous

• Broader reach
• Facilitate exchange of data and resources in
  healthcare
• Greater collaboration across and within
  professions
• Integration with clinical systems
• Faster development
• Of educational resources and activities
• Of credentialing applications

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The Value of MedBiquitous

• Protected investments
• Learning technologies
• Educational resources
• Better tracking
• Of certification and education accomplishments
• Of evaluation data
• Of competency data
• Of point of care learning data
• Economies and networks of scale

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ABMSDirect Connect Select

• Certification verification service
• Uses MedBiquitous Professional Profile XML
• HHS used during hurricane Katrina
• Verified 4,000 relief worker physicians

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American Heart Association
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RSNA Education Portal
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Collaborative Health Training Initiative

• Veterans Health Administration Employee Education
  System (EES)
• Collaboration with Army, Navy, Air Force
• SCORM for Healthcare
• Launched October 2005
• Prevention and management of workplace violence
• Training program for pharmacy technicians

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Johns Hopkins Medicine Interactive
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Virtual Patients
University College Dublin
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Virtual Patients
IVIMEDS
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Virtual Patients
University of Edinburgh
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Virtual Patients
Karolinska Institute
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Participation

• Membership
• Standards Committee member
• Invited Expert
• Implementer