MedBiquitous Annual Conference 2005 Presentations

April 5, 2005  Preconference Seminar

Best Practices for Developing Reusable E-learning Content Using SCORM for Healthcare (PPT, 5.72 MB)
Nina Pasini Deibler, Carnegie Mellon University Learning Systems Architecture Lab

This half-day seminar provided an in-depth tutorial for those interested in implementing SCORM for Healthcare in their organization.

April 6, 2005

9:00 AM

Enabling Collaboration for Healthcare Education: A MedBiquitous Update (PPT, 1.87 MB)
Peter Greene, M.D., Executive Director, MedBiquitous Consortium, and Associate Dean for Emerging Technologies, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

MedBiquitous is focused on creating a technology blueprint for professional healthcare education that will connect educators and certifiers and support new systems for maintaining the competence of medical professionals. Solutions based on this common blueprint provide a scaleable way for educators and certifiers to support and serve their constituents. Dr. Greene reviews the progress to date and objectives for the coming year.

9:45 AM

Professional Competence and Patient Safety: Are We Doing Enough? (PPT, 4.66 MB)
Carolyn Clancy, M.D., Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Introduction: Edward Miller, M.D., Dean and CEO, Johns Hopkins Medicine

Surveys of patients indicate that the public expects physicians to be doing more than they actually are to maintain their competence. Is the medical profession doing enough to meet these high expectations? Recent research and activities of AHRQ and others will be reviewed.

11:15 AM

Virtual Patients

Technical Aspects
David Davies, Ph.D., IVIMEDS (PPT, 5.25 MB)
Marc Triola, M.D., New York University (PPT, 3.69 MB)
James B. McGee, M.D., University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine (PPT, 1.23 MB)

Virtual patients are interactive computer programs that simulate clinical scenarios. For pedagogical purposes, the learner can be cast as the healthcare professional making clinical decisions. The panel will review an array of virtual patient offerings and discuss opportunities for creating data standards to represent virtual patients for educational purposes.

1:45 PM

Collaboration in the House of Medicine: The Trusted Agent Project (PPT, 2.69 MB)
Robert Galbraith, M.D., Co-Director, Center for Innovation, National Board of Medical Examiners

Physician data is fragmented and difficult to assemble for licensing, certification, and self-assessment purposes. The National Board of Medical Examiners is working with the Federation of State Medical Boards to test the feasibility of an infrastructure for compiling physician data - at the physician's request - in real time. Leveraging MedBiquitous data interchange standards, this Trusted Agent Project could provide new mechanisms for licensure application, portfolio, research, and credential transmission.

2:15 PM

Point of Care Learning
Panelists: Charles Willis, M.B.A., American Medical Association
Nancy Davis, Ph.D., American Academy of Family Physicians
Willis & Davis presentation (PPT, 81 KB)
Bill Hersh, M.D., Oregon Health and Science University (PPT, 106 KB)
Guilherme Del Fiol, M.D., M.S., Intermountain Healthcare (PPT, 592 KB)

Point of care may offer the most teachable moment for many clinicians. The AMA has worked with the AAFP and others to pilot how credit can be awarded for these valuable learning experiences. Panelists will review how point of care learning can be integrated into electronic health records, order entry, and other point of care IT systems.

3:45 PM

Lessons from the Cockpit (PPT, 2.95 MB)
(Download zip file (ZIP, 37.7 MB) containing PowerPoint file, video and video codec required to view the video. You must first run TSCC.exe before you can view the video.)
Jacqueline Haynes, Ph.D., Executive Vice President, Intelligent Automation
Brandt Dargue, Senior Project Engineer, Boeing

Introduction: Paul Miles, M.D., Vice President, Director of Quality Improvement and Practice Assessment, American Board of Pediatrics

Healthcare has learned much from the airline industry regarding safety and crew resource management, but much can be learned of their use of learning technologies as well. The speakers show examples of integrating SCORM-conformant Web-based training with standards-based simulations for aviation-related training.

4:30 PM

Making Learning a Core Part of Healthcare Information Technology (PPT, 3.24 MB)
Don E. Detmer, M.D., M.A., President and Chief Executive Officer, American Medical Informatics Association

Much attention has been focused recently on developing a national health information network that supports interoperable medical records and certain public health and research needs. A glaring omission is the opportunity to leverage information technology to support the education of both clinicians and patients. Dr. Detmer, author of the original NHII vision, discusses how to integrate education into healthcare IT.

Thursday, April 7, 2005

8:30 AM

Content Collaboratives
Panelists: David Davies, Ph.D., IVIMEDS (PPT, 5.45 MB)
Sandra McIntyre, M.Ed., Health Education Assets Library (PPT, 3.86 MB)
Grace Huang, M.D., MedEdPortal (PPT, 1.71 MB)
Marty Nachbar, M.D., COMET (PPT, 1.64 MB)
(Download zip file (ZIP, 31.8 MB) containing PowerPoint file and video. Video requires Quicktime to view)

Many healthcare educators are finding economic and pedagogical advantages to developing collaborative efforts that enable educators to share electronic resources. The panel will review these content collaborations and discuss the challenges and benefits that they offer their participants.

10:30 AM

Implementing Standards for the Exchange of Professional Medical Data
Todd Tischendorf, Director of Information Services and Systems Development, American Board of Medical Specialties (PPT, 68 KB)
David Hooper, Director, Physician Data Center, Federation of State Medical Boards (PPT, 638 KB)

The MedBiquitous Professional Profile standard offers ways for many organizations to streamline existing business processes and implement new data transactions. The speakers describe how their organizations have leveraged the Professional Profile and its impact on business processes and costs.

11:00 AM

Syndicating Content Through RSS
Howard Tanzman, Director of Information Technology, American College of Surgeons (PPT, 3.79 MB)
Allan Bell, HighWire Press (PPT, 578 KB)

Rich Site Summary, or RSS, provides opportunities for syndicating content directly to the readers who are interested. Mr. Tanzman describes how RSS can be used by a professional society, while Mr. Bell describes how an online service provider uses RSS to distribute information about new journal content.

11:30 AM

Evaluating Learning Activities Using Data Standards for Metrics (PPT, 2.69 MB)
Moderator: Ross Martin, M.D., M.H.A., Pfizer Panelists: Tao Le, M.D., Medsn

A key to improving training and education activities is measuring them. MedBiquitous Metrics provides a standard for communicating core evaluation data and offers best practices for health professions training evaluation. The panelists describe key benefits of the emerging standard as well as the metrics pilot project currently underway.

1:00 PM

SCORM and CORDRA: Enabling Discovery of Reusable Learning Objects (PPT, 743 KB)
Dan Rehak, Ph.D. , Professor and Technical Director, Carnegie Mellon University Learning Systems Architecture Lab

The SCORM reference model for Web-based learning enables broad interoperability and reuse of content chunks, dubbed reusable learning objects. The Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative that developed SCORM is now focusing on CORDRA, technology to enable discovery of this content across organizations and systems. Dr. Rehak, a key driver of these efforts, provides an update on both of these important initiatives.

1:30 PM

Merging Technology and Pedagogy into an Effective E-learning Strategy (PPT, 1.61 MB)
Greg Long, Chief Learning Officer, Accelera

E-learning offers a way to provide education to a large number of learners in a flexible manner, but the majority of eCME courses fail to implement proven learning strategies. Mr. Long describes how good pedagogical practices and good technical practices can come together in an effective e-learning strategy.