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Online, Just In Time, Electronic Certificate Exchange. Annette Gippe Leah Wang Ben Greenberg Carl Singer. American Osteopathic Association. Represents D.O. Physicians 64,000 DOs in the United States 37,000 AOA members Major Areas of Focus Accreditation Advocacy Education Research.
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Online, Just In Time, Electronic Certificate Exchange Annette Gippe Leah Wang Ben Greenberg Carl Singer
American Osteopathic Association Represents D.O. Physicians 64,000 DOs in the United States 37,000 AOA members Major Areas of Focus Accreditation Advocacy Education Research
CECITY Founded 1997 by Healthcare Professionals CECity is the world’s leading SaaS (Software as a Service) provider of online healthcare education, outcomes, and performance improvement technologies & distribution networks Evolved from online CME SaaS provider to leading Performance Improvement and Outcomes SaaS provider No Content Creation or Accreditation Technology platforms are focused on our partners…not CECity
About A network of 32 leading specialty-focused sites for physicians and other healthcare professionals A medical education company An accredited provider CME Usage: 5.2 million CME/CE certificates issued in 2008 Membership: 500,000+ Physicians 120,000+ NPs / PAs 500,000+ Nurses 100,000+ Pharmacists
Business Case for Electronic Certificate Exchange Participant: Eliminate time spent with manualsubmissions to professional organizations Professional Organizations: Eliminate the costly manual dataentry of CME activity data Improve accuracy by gathering datafrom the CME source vs the participant Platform Provider: Improve user experience for medscapecme.com and DOCMEOnline.com participants Increase operational efficiency by utilizing a single standard
Electronic CME The New Way
Results 76,000 hours of CME credit have been transferred to the AOA using the MedBiquitous Activity Report Standard!
Activity Report XML An xml representation of a Participant’s Activity Certificate. { Participant Information
Activity Report XML An xml representation of a Participant’s Activity Certificate. { Activity Information
Activity Report XML An xml representation of a Participant’s Activity Certificate. { CreditInformation
Behind the Scenes Member Confirmation
Behind the Scenes Activity Report Transfer.
Considerations / Challenges Faced Method: SOAP vs. POST over HTTP Data / Concept Mapping User Mapping / Soft Matching Exception Handling / Logging Technical Staff Required for Implementation / Substantial Effort Footprint
Contact Information Annette Gippe, Deputy Director agippe@osteotech.org Andrew Rabin, Chief Technology Officer arabin@cecity.com Carl Singer, Director Software Development Velocity Group csinger@cecity.com Leah Wang, VP Implementation Operations lwang@webmd.net Ben Greenberg, Sr. Product Manager bgreenberg@webmd.net