Key Services and Features:

• Intensive workshop with key stakeholders to develop short- and long-term strategic goals.
• Business and systems analysis.
• Strategic plan delivering recommendations for implementing CME technology best practices.
• Deployment of EthosCE LMS Enterprise Edition.
• Integration with existing external e-commerce, certificate, and credit-management systems.
• Custom look and feel for seamless integration with other key AAFP websites.
• Hosting within AAFP onsite data center.
• Onsite training for technical and education staff.

We are so pleased to be selected by AAFP and we look forward to a long-term partnership together.

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Features

• EthosCE Learning Management System (LMS).
• Single Sign On (SSO) authentication with the Association Management System.
• Integration with Cvent, the largest event management software company in the US.
• Rich interactive reports for pre- and post-test comparison.
• Follow up post-tests and performance comparison for outcomes measurement.
• Global course reports dashboard for tracking course and credit completions.
• Downloadable post-test and evaluation reports to "slice and dice" data based on User profile.
• Fully customizable, automated reminder emails based on course registrations and completions.
• Themed the LMS site to match the look and feel of NCCN.org, a site that had more than 1.1 million unique visitors in 2010.
• ACCME PARS Support.
• Full day on-site training for technical and education staff.

Challenges

NCCN offers accredited educational activities which positively impact patients that need oncology care. Common CME activities include live conferences and symposia, live webinars, on-demand webcasts, and The Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (JNCCN).  Some of the key objectives of these programs include objectively measuring the performance improvement on patient outcomes. The other important success criteria for this implementation from various departments at NCCN were as follows:

• Operations: Streamline the user workflow and attendance tracking for live meetings, conferences which are very popular educational events at NCCN. The NCCN 16th Annual National Conference was attended by more than 1700 oncologists, nurses and other healthcare professionals.

• CME: Measure outcomes of learners by setting up follow up post-tests triggered on specific criteria.

• Reporting and Measurement: Visually compelling reports to compare learners’ performance in quizzes for quicker analysis and decision making.

• Finance:  Set up reminder e-mails to enhance learner participation in activities. This feature was very important to ensure greater learner participation so as to realize the best ROI on activity set up costs.

• Marketing:  Match the look-and-feel of NCCN.org to create a consistent user experience.

Solution:

DLC Solutions successfully delivered this highly time sensitive project within budget with careful planning and proven project management methodologies. Integration with Cvent, was a high risk item only because it involved working with third party APIs. As a part of the risk mitigation strategies, this was the first project milestone to be accomplished.  EthosCE has a modular and scalable architecture and so implementing follow up post-tests and reports for quiz comparison  was the next and an easy milestone to hit. For the reminder email feature, DLC Solutions proactively architected a solution which was highly configurable and enabled administrators to send emails on various criteria. The user interface for this feature was designed after extensive planning with business analysis, product management, development and user experience teams . The Single Sign On integration with the main NCCN E-commerce site and overall theming of the education site were less complex items to implement with little surprises.

DLC Solutions is proud to be associated with this implementation for a prestigious group like NCCN and is looking forward to the site launch in the near future.

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• EthosCE Learning Management System
• Single Sign On (SSO) authentication with the membership system
• Support for live and online CME activities
• Fully themed site based on custom design
• Automated ACCME PARS Reporting
• Workflows for dual credit types for curriculum completion

Background

Illinois State Medical Inter-insurance Exchange, more popularly known as ISMIE Mutual, is the largest medical liability insurer in Illinois. Started on July 1, 1976, this physician-owned and led insurance company focuses on fighting defensible claims and providing coverage for all specialties. ISMIE Mutual, along with the Illinois State Medical Society, has been demonstrating its fight for quality health care and physician advocacy through its programs and processes.

Key Requirements for Success

Through strategic initiatives, such as the Risk Rewards Partnership Program, ISMIE Mutual is a leading innovator for risk management. Critical factors required for the success of this program were:

1. A high percent of physician participation would be required to participate in online courses.
2. A compelling and intuitive user interface for the physicians, including search capabilities for finding courses.
3. Single Sign-On (SSO) integration with the ISMIE Mutual’s membership management system to allow only authorized users access Risk Management resources.
4. Migration of course completion data from a legacy learning management system (LMS
5. Provide anytime, anywhere access to courses and other related information via iPhone, iPad and other mobile devices.
6. Streamline the business rules to validate and award discount credits for users who completed the curriculum.
7. Workflows for awarding dual credit types for users on completion of a single course.
8. Deliver custom configurations and provide ongoing training the ISMIE Mutual team for platform administration within a tight deadline.

Solution

DLC Solutions worked with the Department of Risk Management at ISMIE Mutual to implement the full-featured CME Web platform using our EthosCE Learning Management System. The finished Web platform is intuitive, yet powerful, and aims at greater physician involvement in CME activities.  The Single Sign-On integration with the myISMIE.com site ensures the learning management system is accessible only to authorized users and eliminates the need for an additional registration. The ease of navigation through the menu items and the content in the interior pages makes it a compelling choice for use on mobile devices.

Another key accomplishment in this engagement is the automation of the curriculum display for learners based on their specific completion history.  EthosCE personalizes the listing of courses available to the learner based on the courses they have previously completed.  And, finally, we successfully migrated learner transcripts from a legacy learning management system to EthosCE so the transition to the new platform would be seamless to the physician learners and staff.

ISMIE’s EthosCE installation included custom development, which required comprehensive testing and detailed documentation to be completed within a short time frame.  To ensure accurate development and progress reporting back to ISMIE, DLC utilized its suite of project management tools to keep tasks on track. ISMIE was provided with weekly status updates on all tasks, as well as weekly budget reports to avoid cost overruns. Ultimately, ISMIE has been trained on all the custom configurations and were up and running on EthosCE by the agreed upon deadline. Reaction to the system has been very positive and we are now moving into Phase II planning and development.

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1. The conference also marked the Alliance's official name change to the Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions and an expanded mission to serve continuing education professionals across the entire healthcare system.  This is certainly an exciting step forward as there is a clear need to further foster communication and collaboration on best practices in CE research, education, and advocacy.  Hopefully these important steps will broaden the membership base of the Alliance and aid in the advancement of quality patient care.
2. An update was provided on the Alliance's National Disclosure System (NDS).  Set to launch in Q2 of 2012, NDS is a centralized database where healthcare professionals can report disclosures in an effort to mitigate against any potential conflict of interest in the development and administration of continuing education programs.  Accredited providers will then be able to subscribe and access disclosure information (only with the healthcare professional's permission) at part of their CE activity development and compliance processes.  NDS was developed by CE stakeholders representing medicine, pharmacy, nursing, and other disciplines. After speaking with some of our colleagues in greater detail, we are excited about the potential of this initiative it is challenge accredited CE providers to maintain up-to-date disclosures along with all of the other CE regulation requirements.  Unfortunately, NDS Version 1 will not have an API that would enable real-time data import with learning management systems like EthosCE.  However, we are hopeful that there will be sufficient use by professionals and CE providers to support NDS and a move towards Web services in future versions.
3. As a member of the Alliance's Emerging Technologies Committee, it was great to see some initial uptake on a number of new technology initiatives and the continued enthusiasm of the Alliance membership and its leaders.  I am hopeful that this trend will continue and Alliance's new community platform with flourish as our membership base expands.

Looking forward to 2013 in San Francisco!

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Many of our EthosCE customers have suggested ideas, and we want to make sure everyone has a chance to participate.

Tell us what features you would like in EthosCE.

Here are a few of the top ideas.

• Conflict of Interest Module
• Regularly Schedule Series (RSS) Module
• Learner-personalized Commitment to Change Follow-up Surveys
• Custom Course Completion Messages
• Activity Migration (from staging site to live site)
• Self-authoring PI Module
• Improved Reports (advanced filtering and drag and drop charts)
• Personalized Administrator Dashboard
• Mobile Phone Application for Recording Evaluations & Attendance at Live Events

Are we missing something? You can add new ideas too!

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