Archive for the ‘social networking’ Category

June 16th, 2009 By Jeremy Lundberg Comments Off

Online Support Groups, Diabetes and Twitter, and “Facebook for Pharmacists”

June 9th, 2009 By Jeremy Lundberg Comments Off

e-Health Game Changers: Smart phones, social media, and popular online groups

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.

May 12th, 2009 By Jeremy Lundberg Comments Off

Social Media and Pharmaceutical Marketing; Medscape’s New iPhone CME App

  • Social Media: The Science of Eavesdropping – Medical Marketing and Media – Healthcare marketing professionals have come to recognize the increase in consumer conversations related to diagnoses, treatments and other topics. They are happening in online social networks, on search engines and at customer contact centers. The pressing question is: How do I best measure these conversations to gain insight for my communications programs?
  • WebMD to launch Medscape iPhone app – Medical Marketing and Media – The app will provide docs with a free mobile drug reference database and drug interaction checker, as well as Medscape's specialty-focused professional news. Medscape CME will be available as well, with mobile CME activities and credits automatically tracked in the Medscape CME tracker.
  • Social Strategy for Exciting (and Boring) Brands – There are two kinds of brands in the world. If you are a marketer, you know what I mean. There are brands people like to talk about, and brands they don’t.