Newsletter
#11
MedBiquitous Consortium
Newsletter #11
19 December 2002
Published by the MedBiquitous Consortium
Contents:
- Save
the Date!
- Education,
Communication, and Cooperation
- Journal Barn
Raising Review
- Call for Curricula
- Membership Update
1.
Save the Date!
The MedBiquitous
Annual Meeting will be held in Baltimore,
Maryland on April 9 and 10, 2003. More
information regarding the conference agenda
and speakers will be forthcoming in a future
newsletter. Mark your calendars!
2.
Education, Communication, and Cooperation
On November 16,
the Council of Medical Specialty Societies
held a special session on creating information
flow that supports physician learning.
Presenters included Paul Jesukiewicz from
the Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative,
Dr. Errol Alden from the American Academy
of Pediatrics, and MedBiquitous Executive
Director Dr. Peter Greene. Together, they
outlined a vision for the use of MedBiquitous
technology standards in repositioning CME.
Key components of this vision include basing
education on specialty curriculum, enabling
communication of CME credit information
between specialty societies and specialty
boards, and making educational modules
available at the point of care.
3.
Journal Barn Raising Review
On December
3, 2002, the MedBiquitous Consortium convened
a group
of publishers to discuss creating XML
standards and Web services to facilitate
the delivery
and management of online journals. Representatives
from Elsevier Science, John Wiley and
Sons,
HighWire Press, Sun Microsystems, and
IBM attended the meeting at Sun’s offices
in Menlo Park, California. Bill Smith from
the Liberty Alliance discussed using federated
identity to achieve single sign on across
participating websites. In the discussion
that followed, participants echoed the
need for a user-centric approach to authentication,
journal delivery, and journal searching.
The Journal Working Group’s initial
priorities will be creating schemas for
journal content and packaging, creating
recommendations for single sign on access
control, and creating Web services standards
for the integration of journal data with
other data. Members are welcome to participate!
For more information, contact info@medbiq.org.
4.
Call for Curricula
To
help link educational modules to objectives
within a specialty
curriculum, MedBiquitous is creating an
XML standard for representing medical
curricula,
and we want your help! Please send examples
of your medical curricula to Valerie Smothers
at valerie.smothers@medbiq.org. Sending
us your curriculum will help to ensure
that the standard we develop meets your
organization’s needs. Members interested
in helping to shape a standard for online
curricula can participate in the Education
Working Group. For information on participating,
contact info@medbiq.org.
5.
Membership Update
MedBiquitous
welcomes Stanford University’s HighWire Press
and Outstart as its most recent members.
HighWire Press produces online journals
for a number of scientific societies and
publishing partners. OutStart provides
enterprise-wide learning solutions to corporations
through Evolution, the company’s
learning management, development, and
delivery
platform. For more information, see the
HighWire Press website at http://highwire.stanford.edu/ and the Outstart website at http://www.outstart.com/.
