1. Healthcare Learning Object Metadata Status: Candidate standard The opportunity For organizations that create a lot of learning content and activities, it can be difficult to find the right content when and where it is needed. As a result, learners miss learning opportunities and developers reinvent learning content, increasing the cost of education development. Healthcare LOM provides a standard way to describe learning activities and content, making it possible to maximize the value of your content and connect to the broader community of healthcare educators. A standards-based approach Standardizing the description for learning activities makes it easier to: Locate educational resources within or across collections. Share educational resources. Manage curricula. Integrate learning resources into clinical decision support, personal health records, and portfolios. In addition, Healthcare LOM serves as a foundation piece for other MedBiquitous specifications. It can be used to describe activities in a digital CE certificate (using Activity report) or in an outcomes evaluations report (using Medical Education Metrics). Healthcare LOM can also be used to tie learning activities to competency frameworks. More Information Specifications, schemas, and draft implementation guidelines available on the working group website. Working Group Members American Association of Critical-Care Nurses American Gatroenterological Association Association of American Medical Colleges Boehringer Ingelheim CECity Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Department of Veterans Affairs HEAL Healthstream HighWire Press Participate We welcome your feedback and questions! The Learning Objects Working Group is refining its implementation guidelines and SCORM for Healthcare guidelines based on participant experience. In addition, the group is examining licensing and privacy requirements around reusable healthcare content. www.medbiq.org Healthcare LOM standardizes cataloging of health education content making it easier for professionals and patients to find the resources they need while enabling other systems to search and access resources. Healthcare LOM can be used to describe educational activities within digital CE or MoC certificates and evaluation reports. Healthcare LOM also has fields that facilitate linking activities to competency frameworks. Learning Objects Working Group http://www.medbiq.org/working_groups/ learning_objects/ ® Health Education Title: Aresenic Toxicity Keyword: Environmental medicine, MeSh D019550 Target audience: Physician, registered nurse Credits:: CME 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1; CNE 1.7 contact hours Database B Title: Preventing sports injuries Target audience: Patient CE Evaluation Evidence based practice Quality improve- ment Inform- atics Patient centered care Competencies Johns Hopkins University LearnSomething National Institute for Quality Improvement and Education Northern Ontario School of Medicine Oregon Health & Sciences University Pfizer St George's University of London University of Miami University of Warwick WEMOVE