Medbiquitous: blueprint for medical ed tech

A lot of time, effort and money goes into developing learning objects for healthcare education. Learning repositories such as MedEdPortal provide the space for objects to be shared. However, differences in formats and platforms create technological barriers to sharability.

Medbiquitous is a group creating a technology blueprint for healthcare education so that universities, healthcare providers, governmental and commercial groups can share healthcare-related learning objects across platforms. They are specifically focusing on:

• healthcare learning object metadata
• SCORM for healthcare
• Virtual Patients
• Medical education metrics
• activity reporting
• competencies

MedBiquitous adheres to the principles of openness and due process for its standards development activities. Educators and industry alike collaborate to develop standards and exchange ideas about innovative uses of Web technologies for healthcare education and communities of practice.