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.

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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/

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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

DatabaseB

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