Brief Synopsis
Mission
To advance healthcare education through technology standards that promote professional competence, collaboration, and better patient care.
Vision
MedBiquitous creates technology standards to advance healthcare education and connect the leading entities in professional medicine and healthcare. With these interoperable standards, educators will be better able to exchange educational content, track learner activities and profiles, and make healthcare education more accessible, measurable, and effective, thereby improving patient care.
Membership
MedBiquitous members are organizations with an interst in healthcare education. This includes professional associations, cetifying boards, universities, publishers, commercial educators, healthcare organizations, and governmental healthcare entities, among others.
Activity
To achieve our objectives, the MedBiquitous Consortium creates the following:
- XML standards for communications among professional societies, certifying boards, educators, publishers, and industry partners that support professional education and competency. XML is a standard for Web-based data exchange.
- Requirements and specifications for XML Web services designed for communities of healthcare professionals. XML Web services define how applications can work together over the Internet.
- Software components that enable implementation of the XML standards.
Through working groups and conferences, MedBiquitous also provides a forum for learning about best technology practices and freely exchanging ideas.
Scope
The MedBiquitous Consortium is a non-profit organization accredited by ANSI to create standards to support healthcare education and training, professional competence assessment, certification, licensure, professional and scientific publications, and healthcare professional online communities and portals.
Cost
Membership costs are $3000 per year for non-profit organizations and $4,000 to $18,000 per year (based on annual revenue) for commercial entities.
