The standards development program of the AAMC
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The Technical Advisory Group (TAG) creates guidelines for the development of MedBiquitous® standards to ensure compatibility and interoperability. In collaboration with MedBiquitous working groups, TAG also creates guidelines to support standards implementation relevant to health professions education. 

The below technical guidelines were originally drafted by the Johns Hopkins Medicine International Technical Steering Committee prior to the MedBiquitous Program’s transition to the AAMC. TAG will review these technical guidelines over the coming years to ensure their relevance.   

Provides consistent definitions, structures, relationships, and rules for the development of MedBiquitous APIs, ensuring ease of implementation. 

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Provide recommendations when using Atom or Really Simple Syndication (RSS) to create internet-based content feeds and podcasts. 

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Provide general directions for transmitting binary attachments to support XML documents. 

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Provide pedagogical, process, and technical recommendations for organizations to implement online journal-based CE and continuing medical education.  

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Compares two popular approaches to web services and outlines when it is appropriate to use each. 

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Provide guidance for leveraging representational state transfer to develop web services. 

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Provide recommendations for using a consistent, standards-based approach to authentication and authorization within and across organizations. 

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Provide guidance for using a consistent, standards-based approach to single sign-on within and across organizations. 

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Provide a reliable approach to web services development for interoperability among disparate systems and compatibility with interoperability recommendations. 

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Provide a consistent approach to XML schema development to maximize reusability of components. 

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