Contents

1. Detmer Elected MedBiquitous Chair
2. Annual Conference Presentations Available
3. Introduction to Healthcare Informatics
4. Point of Care Learning and Competencies Working Groups Launched
5. Welcome New Working Group Chairs
6. Membership Update

Detmer Elected MedBiquitous Chair

Don E. Detmer, M.D., M.A., was elected Chair of the MedBiquitous Board of Directors on April 25, 2006. Dr. Detmer is President and CEO of the American Medical Informatics Association and Professor Emeritus and Professor of Medical Education in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Virginia. He brings with him a considerable understanding of education, technology, and their applications to national health policy.

Dr. Detmer succeeds Dr. Bruce Spivey, who has served as the Chair of the MedBiquitous Board of Directors since 2001. Dr. Spivey has played an important role in establishing MedBiquitous within the community of professional medicine, and we are grateful for his continued commitment. Dr. Spivey continues to serve as a member of the MedBiquitous Board of Directors.

Annual Conference Presentations Available

The MedBiquitous Annual Conference 2006 was a smashing success. Nearly 200 participated in the meeting and heard presentations from Dr. Peter Pronovost, Dr. Donald Melnick, Dr. Murray Kopelow, and other leaders in healthcare education and competence assessment. But the highlight of the conference for many was the performance of The MedBiquitous Song by Ross Martin. If you can’t get enough MedBiquitous, download the presentations. The MedBiquitous Song MP3 is available at http://www.medbiq.org/medBiq_song.mp3, and the lyrics are available from Dr. Martin’s blog.

Many thanks to our speakers, to everyone who participated, and to conference sponsors CECity and Moberg Research. Stay tuned for webcasts from Local Origination!

Introduction to Healthcare Informatics

Have you ever wondered what it would take to have healthcare providers, patients, pharmacies, and even educators electronically connected to provide the best possible healthcare outcomes? Are you interested in learning what healthcare technology standards are all about? The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and MedBiquitous have collaborated to develop Introduction to Healthcare Informatics Standards, an e-learning course authored by W. Ed Hammond. The course provides a broad overview of the landscape of healthcare informatics standards and focuses on the benefits that the adoption of standards might bring toward successful transformation of healthcare in the United States. This course uses case-based scenarios and examples to demonstrate how standards impact common clinician and patient activities and interactions. The course is conformant with the SCORM for Healthcare suite of standards and specifications for reusable e-learning.

We gratefully acknowledge AcceleraRomar as our development partner and Pfizer for providing a grant to support the production of this course. For more information about the course, visit http://www.amia.org/e-learning/ihis/.

Point of Care Learning and Competencies Working Groups Launched

At its annual conference, MedBiquitous launched the Point of Care Learning Working Group and the Competencies Working Group. The Point of Care Learning Working Group develops standards and guidelines to support offering clinicians learning at the point of care, tracking point of care learning, and using point of care learning data for needs assessment. The Competencies Working Group develops standards and guidelines for competency data, enabling educational resources and activities to be tied to a competency framework. Members are welcome to participate! Contact info@medbiq.org for more information.

Welcome New Working Group Chairs

Working groups are at the heart of the MedBiquitous standards development process, and the individuals who chair these working groups contribute significantly to the overall success of MedBiquitous in advancing healthcare education and competence assessment. We’d like to take this opportunity to recognize all of our working group chairs, with a special welcome to our new chairs.

• Morgan Bantly, Chair, Learning Objects Working Group
• Chris Candler, M.D., Co-Chair, Competencies Working Group
• Rachel Ellaway, Ph.D., Co-Chair, Virtual Patients Working Group
• Francis Kwakwa, Chair, Metrics Working Group
• JB McGee, M.D., Co-Chair, Virtual Patients Working Group
• Rosalyn Scott, M.D., Co-Chair Competencies Working Group
• Todd Tischendorf, Co-Chair, Professional Profile Working Group
• Toby Vandermark, Chair, Activity Report Working Group
• Jabin White, Chair, Point of Care Learning Working Group

And a big thank you to retiring chairs Nancy Davis and Craig Van Dyck, who have each contributed strategic guidance to MedBiquitous. Dr. Davis continues to guide MedBiquitous as a member of the Executive Committee.

Membership Update

MedBiquitous welcomes three new members, Healthstream, METI, and WE MOVE. Healthstream creates regulatory training and other innovative learning solutions that support healthcare organizations’ mission-critical training and business objectives. METI, Medical Education Technologies, Inc., develops simulators and other learning tools that impact the education of our doctors, nurses, first responders and military medics. WE MOVE is the Internet's most comprehensive resource for movement disorder information and the hub of movement disorder activities on the web.

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