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Realizing Collaboration:A MedBiquitous Update
Peter Greene, MDExecutive Director, MedBiquitousMay 14, 2008
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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
• 75 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?”
Med SchoolCollege
AAMC AMAFSMB ABMS AHACMSSAHME
JCAHONCQAACGMELCME ACCME
Residency (Individual in) Practice
Practice Plans
Physical Facilities
Recert/MOCMCAT CME
Subject Exams
In-Training Exams
Cert ExamsUSMLE
Specialty Boards
State Boards
NBME
Specialty Societies Med Schools
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Health Professions Education is a Complex Ecosystem
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Standards Development Work
ProfessionalProfile
E-portfolio
HealthcareLOM
Activity Report
Virtual Patients
Competency
MetricsSCORM
for Healthcare
POCLearning
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Advancing Health Professions Education
• Are we highly evolved?
• What traits are needed to advance health professions education?
Photo by Stuart Seeger from College Station, Texas, USA.
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Strong Vision
• Bob Galbraith, MD• Data-driven self
assessment as path to competence and quality has ripple effect through the house of medicine
• Technology standards essential to enable such a vision
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Ability to Collaborate• Chara Balasubramaniam • Nabil Zary, MD, PhD• eViP project team
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Creativity
• Christine Morales• Manager, Continuing
Professional Education American Heart Association
• Helping the AHA to use Activity Report to gather CME data from multiple sources
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Effective Use of Resources
• Morgan Bantley• David Twitchell, PhD• Dawn Caroll• VA implementation of
healthcare LOM
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An Eye for Safety• Mike Zarski• A proactive approach to
ensuring public safety• Web services-based
credentialing speeds data on osteopaths to those who need it
• New Chair of Professional Profile WG
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Ability to adapt to the environment
• Andy Rabin• Working within client
environment using standards• Working with AOA and
Medscape on Activity Report implementation
• Helping to adapt Metrics to ensure value in different educational contexts, moving towards more quality measurements
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Eye for Quality
• Nancy Davis, PhD• Pioneer of
performance improvement CME and POC learning
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Vigorous Community
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With Tools Supporting Standards
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Healthcare Learning Object Metadata
• ANSI/MEDBIQ LO.10.1-2008
• Approval Date of Final Action: 5/8/2008
• Useful for describing any kind of learning resource or activity
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Special Issue of Medical Teacher• “The E-learning
evolution – leveraging new technology approaches to advance healthcare education”
• 7 articles from key talks at last year’s meeting
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Goals for This Year
• Standardization of other specifications• Research into best practices• Better communication about standards
adoption • Development of implementation guides• Development of conformance tests
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We need your help! Participate!
Thurs 7:30 am Learning Objects WG
Point of Care Learning WG
Thurs 12 noon Competency WGMetrics WG
Thurs 3:30 pm Activity Report WG
Professional Profile WG
