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March 4th, 2010 By Jeremy Lundberg No Comments »

EthosCE Presented at Alliance for Continuing Medical Education

I have just returned from presenting on EthosCE at the 35th Annual Alliance for Continuing Medical Education Meeting in New Orleans, LA.  The meeting was wonderful and our presentation was well-attended.  My colleague, Logan Thomison, from OptumHealth Education, a division of United Healthcare, and I were invited to present on the emerging role of Web 2.0 and open source software in the CME enterprise.  We focused the discussion on our experience implementing EthosCE Learning Management System across OptumHealth’s CME enterprise.  EthosCE is a full-featured, open source learning management platform that integrates two industry-leading, open source software applications: Drupal Content Management System and Moodle Learning Management System…”Best of both worlds combined.” (more…)

December 7th, 2009 By Jeremy Lundberg No Comments »

Alliance for CME Presentation: The Emerging Role of Open Source, Web 2.0 Technologies in Continuing Medical Education

I am looking forward to our panel discussion on the role of open source, Web 2.0 learning management technologies at the upcoming 35th Annual Meeting of the Alliance for Continuing Medical Education to be held on January 27-30, 2010 in New Orleans, LA.  I hope you will join us for this in-depth discussion on the practical applications of open source, learning management and social media solutions for the CME enterprise.  (more…)

December 4th, 2009 By Jeremy Lundberg No Comments »

EthosCE LMS Compliant with ACCME Program and Activity Reporting System for Continuing Medical Education

EthosCE Learning Management System is now compliant with the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education’s (ACCME) online Program and Activity Reporting System (PARS).  An academic medical center (and current EthosCE client)  is serving as a PARS testing site for ACCME.  This new data collection portal is designed to improve the transparency, accountability and efficiency of continuing medical education systems. (more…)

June 2nd, 2009 By Jeremy Lundberg Comments Off

MedBiquitous Webcasts on Health Education Technologies Now Available

As the proud e-learning sponsor of the 2009 MedBiquitous Annual Conference, DLC Solutions is pleased announce the release a series of video Webcasts on health education technologies and standards. The presentations were captured on April 28th-30th in Baltimore, MD, using DLC Solutions’ PresentME Webcasting technology.  We are pleased to have both sponsored and presented at this important event.

Webcast Presentations

  • “Welcome” – Don E. Detmer, MD, MA, Chairman, MedBiquitous Board of Directors, President and CEO, American Medical Informatics Association.
  • “Laying the Groundwork for Collaboration: A MedBiquitous update” – Peter Greene, MD, Executive Director, MedBiquitous.
  • “The Efficacy of E-learning in the Health Professions” – David Cook, MD, MHPE, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine.
  • “Information: The missing ingredient for successful innovation in medical education” – Ronald M Harden, OBE, MD, FRCP, FRCS, FRCPC, Association for Medical Education in Europe.
  • “Facebook and Social Networking – Can this really help me learn?” – Moderated by James B. Mcgee, MD, University of Pittsburgh, and Benjamin Azan, Mount Sinai School of Medicine and MedBiquitous.
  • “Ubiquitous Computing Using Second Life For Online Health Informatics Students” – Juliana J. Brixey PhD, MPH, RN; Judith J. Warren PhD, RN, BC, FAAN, FACM, University of Kansas School of Nursing.
  • “Health Preparedness Training in Second Life: Lessons learned” -  Karen Ngowe, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
  • “Virtual Patient and Medical Device Simulation In Second Life: The use of immersive virtual worlds for learning and patient safety” -  David I Taylor MSc MBCS, Robin Winter; Mark Chan, Rachel Davies BA (Hons), James Kinross BSc (Hons) MRCS (Eng), Ara Darzi, FMedSci, HonFREng KBE Imperial College London.
  • “Applying the Professional Profile Standard: A real world example of how the Professional Profile is used” – Annette Gippe; Mike Zarski, AOIA
  • “Online, Just In Time, Electronic Certificate Exchange: A case study in leveraging the MedBiquitous Activity Report XML Standard” -  Benjamin Greenberg, Leah Wang, Medscape; Annette Gippe, American Osteopathic Association; Tarang Shah, Carl Singer, Andrew Rabin, CECity.
  • “EthosCE: The role of open source web technologies in continuing medical education” - Jeremy C Lundberg, MSSW, LSW, DLC Solutions; Logan Thomison, OptumHealth Education

To view the Webcast presentations, go to: http://medbiq.com

About Medbiquitous

Founded by Johns Hopkins Medicine and leading professional medical societies, MedBiquitous is a not-for-profit, international group of professional medical and healthcare associations, universities, commercial, and governmental organizations dedicated to advancing healthcare education through technology standards that promote professional competence, collaboration, and better patient care. MedBiquitous is accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) to develop information technology standards for healthcare education and competence assessment.

May 19th, 2009 By Jeremy Lundberg Comments Off

Webcast: Open Source Web Technologies in Continuing Medical Education

Open source Web technologies present exciting and innovative opportunities for the continuing medical education community to deliver high-quality content that engages learners in unique ways, streamlines educational outcomes measurement, and reduces administrative costs.

I recently had the pleasure of co-presenting with Logan Thomison of OptumHealth Education, a subsidiary of United Healthcare, on our experience of integrating two popular open source applications (i.e., Drupal content management system, Moodle learning management system) to create a full-featured, Web 2.0 platform: EthosCE.  DLC Solutions provided all of the techical expertise for the project including: stategic planning, graphic design, software engineering, and project management.  The presentation was given at Johns Hopkins University Medical Center’s Annual MedBiquitous Conference held on April 30th in Baltimore, Maryland.

DLC Solutions is also proud to have sponsored the conference and provided our PresentME Webcasting Services. Please click on the below image to view the presentation.  The accepted abstract is also included below.

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Abstract: The Role of Open Source Web Technologies in Continuing Medical Education: A case study

The rapid emergence and evolution of open-source Web technologies are transforming the delivery and measurement of continuing medical education (CME). Today, healthcare organizations are able to leverage, customize, and integrate free, open source software applications to create innovative, collaborative learning environments that facilitate communication, collaboration, and the transfer of knowledge among healthcare professionals.

DLC Solutions and OptumHealth Education partnered together to create a full-featured Web platform for CME. The platform was designed to: 1) facilitate learning through access to learner-driven communication tools, SCORM-compliant courseware, and live activities; 2) streamline and reduce costs associated with CME program administration and data collection; and 3) conduct education outcomes studies by combining data from multiple public and proprietary sources. The Web platform was developed by integrating two industry-leading open source applications: Drupal and Moodle. Drupal is a comprehensive content management system with rich Web 2.0 features. Moodle is a SCORM-compliant, collaborative learning management system widely used by universities and associations.

This presentation will discuss the authors’ experience in the planning, development, and implementation of this open-source CME platform. Special attention will be given to describing the feature set, the benefits and limitations of the platform, and the integration of multiple data sources for outcomes analysis.