(ANSI) is a private, non-profit organization that administers and coordinates the U.S. voluntary standardization and conformity assessment system. ANSI is the official U.S. representative to the International Accreditation Forum (IAF), the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and, via the U.S. National Committee, the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). ANSI’s Healthcare Informatics Standards Board (ANSI HISB) provides an open, public forum for the voluntary coordination of healthcare informatics standards. MedBiquitous participates in ANSI HISB with other healthcare standards developers, including the American Dental Association, ASTM, SNOMED, HIBCC, HL7, IEEE, National Council of Prescription Drug Programs, NCCLS, Uniform Code Council, and Accredited Standards Committee X 12.
"We're extremely pleased to receive ANSI accreditation for our standards development work," said Peter Greene, MD, executive director of MedBiquitous. "Standards are essential to connect the entities involved in medical education and competence assessment and enable reforms to education and certification processes. We're committed to ANSI's vision of openness and due process for standards development, and we welcome all stakeholders in medical education to participate in shaping the technology standards that will shape our industry."
"ANSI is very pleased to welcome MedBiquitous as an accredited standards developer," states Sally Seitz, HISB secretary. "Their commitment to the development of globally-harmonized, consensus standards for healthcare informatics is directly aligned with the work of the ANSI HISB. We look forward to a very productive relationship with MedBiquitous as both a member of the HISB and as a developer of American National Standards."
Some current draft MedBiquitous standards include a healthcare professional profile, which provides a common format for exchanging individual contact, education, and certification information; medical learning objects metadata, a customization of the Shareable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) standard that provides a way of describing healthcare learning modules; and activity reporting, which provides a common format for reporting professional education and certification accomplishments.
More information on ANSI is available at: http://www.ansi.org/. More information on MedBiquitous is available at: http://www.medbiq.org/.
Press Contact:
Valerie Smothers
Organization: MedBiquitous
Phone: 410-385-2367 ext. 131
Email: valerie.smothers@medbiq.org
Press Contact:
Stephanie Carroll
Organization: ANSI
Phone: 212.642.4890
Email: scarroll@ansi.org
About the American National Standards Institute
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) is a private, non-profit organization (501(c)3) that administers and coordinates the U.S. voluntary standardization and conformity assessment system. The Institute's mission is to enhance both the global competitiveness of U.S. business and the U.S. quality of life by promoting and facilitating voluntary consensus standards and conformity assessment systems, and safeguarding their integrity. For more information, see http://www.ansi.org/.
About The MedBiquitous Consortium
Founded by Johns Hopkins Medicine and leading professional medical societies, the MedBiquitous Consortium is creating a technology blueprint for professional medical education. Based on XML and Web services standards, this blueprint will seamlessly supports the medical learner in ways that will improve patient care and simplify the administrative work associated with education and competence assessment. MedBiquitous also provides a neutral forum for educators and industry alike to exchange ideas about innovative uses of Web technologies for healthcare education and communities of practice. It is the mission of MedBiquitous to advance medical education through technology standards that promote professional competence, collaboration, and better patient care. For more information, see http://www.medbiq.org/.
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BIOGRAPHY
Peter Greene, M.D.
Peter Greene is associate dean for emerging technologies at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Greene also is the executive editor and key architect of CTSNet, the online community of 40 professional cardiothoracic surgery societies. He has more than 15 years of experience in information technology using a variety of medical applications in parallel to a clinical career. Greene received his M.D. from Yale Medical School. He had an important role in founding the MedBiquitous Consortium and serves as the Consortium’s executive director.
