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March 9th, 2011 By Jeremy Lundberg Comments Off
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EthosCE Mobile Automates University of Pennsylvania Office of Continuing Medical Education

Smartphone and open source Web technologies offer the continuing medical education (CME) community with a unique, cost effective model for automating and streamlining their CME enterprises.  At the recent 2011 Annual Meeting of the Alliance for CME, I had the pleasure of presenting with our colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Office of CME.  Together with Mila Kostic, Zalman Agus, Rodman Campbell, we shared the results of our success integrating our EthosCE Learning Management System (LMS) with smartphone short-message service (SMS) technology to automate the Office of CME.  In 2009, the Office of CME accredited 5,431 activities and generated 734,815 certificates.  Our initial work focused on overhauling all RSS application, approval, and attendance tracking processes for grand rounds and case presentations.  Mila Kostic described their previous manual RSS process as an “administrative nightmare resulting in a six-month backlog in data entry and certificate management.”

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February 1st, 2011 By Ezra Wolfe Comments Off
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Jeremy Lundberg, CEO of DLC Solutions and EthosCE, honored with 2011 President’s Award from Alliance for CME

We are pleased to announce that Jeremy Lundberg, CEO of DLC Solutions and EthosCE LMS, was recently honored with the “2011 President’s Award” by the Alliance for CME during their annual meeting in San Francisco.  The award acknowledges Jeremy’s leadership contributions in developing a formal strategic plan for the Alliance’s deployment of social media and emerging technologies.  As a result of his work with the Social Media Working Group, the Alliance’s Board of Directors created the “Emerging Technologies Committee” to further guide the organization.  Jeremy will be an active member of the new committee and he looks forward to working with his fellow members to execute on the strategic plan and recommendations provided to the Board.  We would also like to thank Jann Balmer, PhD, FACME, (Past President), George Mejicano, MD, FACME, (President), the Alliance for CME’s Board of Directors, and the membership for embracing Web 2.0 and social media as a requisite tool for healthcare professional education.

Below is one of the presentations that Jeremy gave at the 2011 Alliance for CME Annual Meeting. The presentation includes a toolbox of free social media tools and a step-wise methodology for creating a strategic social media plan for CME organizations using Forrester Research’s P-O-S-T Methodology.  Please let us know if you have any questions or feedback.

Stategic Planning for Social Media in the CME Enterprise

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November 2nd, 2010 By Jeremy Lundberg Comments Off
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9 Healthcare Websites Using Drupal Content Management System

Our firm continues to successfully leverage Drupal CMS to develop engaging, full-featured Websites for our healthcare clients, including: medical associations, pharmaceutical companies, and consumer health organizations.  Drupal CMS is the industry-leading, open-source content management system, which offers a wealth of content management, Web 2.0, and social media features.  And, because Drupal is free, our clients save money without sacrificing quality, scalability, and security.

Below are nine recent Websites we have produced using Drupal.

Continuing Medical Education (CME)

The following CME Websites have been developed using our EthosCE Learning Management System, which combines Drupal and Moodle to streamline the administration and delivery of continuing medical education.

OptumHealth Education (United Healthcare) – OptumHealthEducation.com provides live and enduring continuing medical education programming to thousands of physicians, nurses, and allied healthcare professionals affiliated with United Healthcare and other health systems.

Performance Improvement CME: Adults with Attention-deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) – This CME-accredited Performance Improvement (PI) program is designed to help primary care providers (physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants) improve their skills in the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of adults with ADHD.  Using our Drupal-based EthosCE Learning Management System, learners are directed to conduct a review of their practice via chart audit, implement performance improvement measures, and then re-assess their practice behaviors.  Throughout the program, the learner is provided comparison data with peers and consensus guidelines.

Pulmonary Hypertension Association Online University – Developed for the Pulmonary Hypertension Association (PHA), this Website delivers CME activities to physicians and healthcare professionals concerned with the management of pulmonary hypertension.  Programs include virtual patient case studies, Webcasts, and peer-reviewed journal articles.

New Jersey Association of Family Physicians – NJAFP is a leading medical specialty association focused upon CME education and legislative advocacy for family physicians in New Jersey and across the United States.  CME-accredited programs include: performance improvement programs, Webcasts, and virtual case studies.  In addition, the Website incorporates a advocacy blog and other social media tools.

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September 23rd, 2010 By Jeremy Lundberg Comments Off
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EthosCE: Your ACCME PARS-Compliant Learning Management System

ACCME recently announced the launch of their Web-based PARS system for reporting multiple CME activities through one “batch upload” process to their database.  Our EthosCE Learning Management System supports the ACCME PARS reporting standard through our “one click” publishing tool.  Now, CME organizations can automatically create ACCME PARS reports and submit them in a fraction of the time compared to the common manual entry process.

ACCME states that PARS is right for organizations who answer “YES” to the following questions:

  • Does your organization conduct many CME activities each year?
  • Are you currently using a database or CME tracking system to record data about your CME activities?
  • Does your database or CME tracking system use XML?  EthosCE Learning Management System does.

Additionally, ACCME states:

“PARS was designed with flexibility in mind. If you conduct several CME activities each year, it’s likely that you’re using a database, spreadsheet, or some other tracking system to store the data that the ACCME requires you to have about your CME program and activities. PARS allows you to upload bulk or batch data for many activities at one time. This can help you to greatly reduce the time and effort needed to put your CME activity data into PARS.”

Our EthosCE Learning Management System’s built-in ACCME PARS “one-click” data collection and reporting feature is designed to automate ACCME reporting, increase compliance, and decrease administrative costs.

Check out the below tutorial from ACCME and ask us how EthosCE Learning Management System can automate your CME enterprise :

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September 23rd, 2010 By Jeremy Lundberg Comments Off

EthosCE Learning Management System: Moodle Presentation

Our team has been working extensively with Moodle Learning Management System for a number of years to support our medical association, university, and hospital clients’ continuing medical education (CME) and training programs.  Moodle is widely considered the industry-leading open source learning management system and is extraordinarily powerful.  This free software enables organizations to easily create, manage, and deliver live and Web-based training, assessments, and reporting through a Web browser.  In addition to those common LMS features, you can leverage a wealth of new modules and features contributed by thousands of developers in the Moodle Community.

In 2007, we decided to further extend the features of Moodle by integrating it with Drupal Content Management System.  The result: an enterprise-level content-learning management system called EthosCE.  EthosCE is a powerful, highly customizable Web platform designed to streamline the administration and delivery of CME and training programs for healthcare professionals.  Now, organizations such as American Society of Anesthesiologists, United Healthcare, and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Office of Continuing Medical Education, can easily manage their education programs within one Web-based application.  And, as an open source application, there are no annual licensing fees or restrictions on the number of courses, learners, and administrators.

The below presentation provides a nice overview of the evolution of Moodle and its wealth of features.  The advent of open source applications, such as EthosCE, Moodle, and Drupal, truly represent a giant leap forward for e-learning technologies designed for the healthcare community.

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