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MedBiquitous

MedBiquitous is an ANSI accredited standards development consortium focusing on "information technology standards for medical education and training, medical professional competence assessment, certification, and licensure, medical professional and scientific publications, and medical professional online communities and portals".

The MedBiquitous Consortium was "founded by Johns Hopkins Medicine and leading professional medical societies, and includes "leading professional medical societies, universities, commercial, and government organizations". [...] "It is the mission of MedBiquitous to advance medical education through technology standards that promote professional competence, collaboration, and better patient care."

In the field of medical education, MedBiquitous has developed XML and Web Services standards for:

  • Healthcare learning objects (HLOs) - discrete units of online instruction
  • Communicating clinician profile information, education and certification activities, journal information, and educational metrics.
These standards are designed to "facilitate collaboration across organizations and make it easier to track licensure, certification, and educational changes or activities".

Current draft MedBiquitous standards include:
  • A healthcare professional profile: "a common format for exchanging clinician contact, education, training, certification, license, and membership 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; activity reporting, which provides a common format for reporting professional education and certification accomplishments".
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Entry on OpenClinical: 25 October 2006
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