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   Digital Asset Management
Digital Asset Management encompasses the tools and processes needed to describe, catalogue, store, search and retrieve your content for re-use and sharing. MD Informatics has developed an integrated suite of intuitive Web-based tools to accomplish all these tasks, making the content development process more cost-efficient and less time consuming.
   

The Ontology 2003 DAMS suite includes 3 components that can be used as stand-alone tools but also work seamlessly together:
  • Vocabulary Architect — Describe assets with maximum accuracy and consistency and eliminate the guesswork associated with keyword indexing. With Vocabulary Architect, you build (or we will build for you) a Standard Enterprise Terminology based on the terms and phrases used in your unique content development scheme but mapped to existing standard vocabularies such as the National Library of Medicine's Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). Or, choose to use one of our ready-to-roll vocabularies.
    FEATURES: Rapid hierarchical tree navigation; Choice of source vocabularies (defaults to MeSH); Auto-search for new terms to avoid redundancy; Captures term metadata elements, including definitions and synonyms; Term version handling.  [View Screenshot]
  • Digital Asset Indexer — This content object cataloguing tool is specially designed for multimedia assets (images, audio, video, etc.). Content developers can incorporate the indexer into their workflow, accurately and consistently describing new content as it's created, then storing it into a central repository for later retrieval. The indexer uses the thesaurus built into the library of vocabularies within Vocabulary Architect or, we'll work with you to incorporate your existing vocaublary or term set.
    FEATURES: Upload assets to common repository; Multiple term search or terminology browsing modes; Choice of source vocabularies; User preferences settings for asset sorting.  [View Screenshot]
  • Digital Asset Search & Retrieval System — Eliminate the guess-work of keyword searches. Browse a selected standard vocabulary for search terms, or enter unrestricted free text search terms and phrases. Either way, the Digital Asset Search & Retrieval System will match the search terms to the thesaurus built into the library of vocabularies within Vocabulary Architect for highly consistent, and consistently accurate search results.
    FEATURES: Dual search modes (terminology browser and free text entry); Automated Boolean match modes; Asset type filters; sorted and paginated search results.  [View Screenshot]
System Requirements: Internet Explorer 4.0+ recommended. No plug-ins or downloads required!
For more information about Ontology 2003 DAMS or to schedule a free demonstration and discuss your organization's digital asset management needs, Contact Us.
   Knowledge Management
Algorithms are a great way to express knowledge, for example to teach clinical guidelines and any other material that can be configured as a decision tree, as well as to serve as point-of-practice decision support. MD Informatics has developed an application that allows users to re-format lengthy guidelines and protocols into a rapidly navigable hierarchical algorithmic structure that can be run through a Web browser.
   

LAMDA (Logical Algorithm Management and Decision-support Application) is probably unlike any knowledge management program you've seen before. But once you've seen it, you may find yourself imagining all sorts of possibilities — from teaching clinical practice guidelines and protocols to situation and patient analysis to point-of-practice decision support. Anything that lends itself to a decision-tree format is doable with the LAMDA architecture (including non-healthcare related knowledge domains). In fact, LAMDA is the same architecture upon which we built  Medulator Lite.
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 		        ADDITIONAL FEATURES:
  • Rapidly navigable algorithmic format
  • Color-coded decision-tree elements
  • Optional information windows for additional resource reference
  • Remote algorithm authoring tools make knowledge engineering fast, easy, and intuitive.
System Requirements: Internet Explorer 4.0+ recommended. No plug-ins or downloads required!
For more information about LAMDA or to discuss your organization's knowledge management needs, Contact Us.
The following Distance Learning products are offered by our Distance Learning Division, Medantic Technology.
To learn about other Medantic Technology products and services, please visit their Web site at: www.medantic.com.
   Case-Based Learning
Among commercially available online patient case simulation applications, our CBL systems truly offer unparalleled levels of realism, interactivity, comprehensive assessment, and performance feedback in a rich multimedia environment. When our CBL modules are paired with our complementary streaming didactic lectures, our multi-modal platform with built-in Learning Management System (LMS) provides the only integrated "presentation-practice" dual-pedagogy system available today. And to support the instructional effectiveness of the integrated system, we continue to engage in scientific investigation of our systems in partnership with some of the most highly respected Cognitive Psychology researchers from elite academic institutions.
         
Medulator is our flagship application for the ultimate in online case-based learning. Medulator (for "Medical Simulator") is a core component of our popular Medical Response to Weapons of Mass Destruction course (see below) and continues to be our most popular product. Every Medulator case presents a realistic patient encounter which the student must work through iteratively to an accurate diagnosis and effective therapeutic plan. Peer-compared performance evaluation is based upon chosen diagnostic tests and procedures, patient outcomes, diagnostic and therapeutic accuracy, and post-test scores.   Medulator Lite  is our newest CBL application, designed for event simulations, or for use as a rapid assessment tool. It's flexible case format can be used for individual or multi-disciplinary team training on scenario management. Scenarios can be written easily and rapidly as decision-tree problem sets with scored responses. Like Medulator, case performance is captured and stored, including total case score (with peer comparison), time to completion, and complete click path for case review.
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 		        ADDITIONAL FEATURES:
  • Fully graphical, intuitive control console
  • Logical Tab layout: History, Physical Examination, Differential Diagnosis, Tests, Results, Initial Therapy, Patient Progress, Chart Summary, and Assessment
  • Hi-resolution medical images; audio files (heart and lung sounds)
  • Computational/algorithmic patient outcomes in response to selected therapeutic combinations
  • Learning surround with teaching points, expert context-specific feedback, case discussion, additional resource links, etc.
  • Comprehensive Assessment section (Diagnosis, Treatment, Analogy Transfer, Post-test)
  • Exhaustive performance tracking and feedback with peer comparisons
  • Remote authoring tools with built-in intelligent agent technology
 

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 		        ADDITIONAL FEATURES:
  • Rapid navigation configuration
  • Expandable/collapsible scenario and click path displays
  • Rapid sequence problem set format with scored responses
  • Response feedback with running total score
  • Performance tracking with peer comparisons
  • Optional digital objects attached to problem set decision points and response items
  • Optional Flash movie introduction
  • Remote authoring tools
***Every Medulator site license includes full access to the growing Medulator case library as well as the remote case authoring tool so educators can build additional cases.
A full Medulator demo case is available through the Medical Response to Weapons of Mass Destruction course demonstration site (see below). For more information about Medulator or Medulator Lite, or to schedule a free demonstration and discuss your organization's case-based learning needs, Contact Us.
   Courses by Medantic Technology
Besides creating technologically advanced case simulation platforms, we build complete courses incorporating our didactic presentations and online cases, delivered via custom-built Learning Management Systems.
   

Medical Response to Weapons of Mass Destruction, A Course on Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Warfare for Healthcare Providers, was the first of its kind following the devastating events of 2001. This Web-based course combines Medantic Technology's didactic presentations and Medulator cases delivered via a custom Learning Management System. Originally published for Medantic Technology by Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, the course was co-developed with subject matter expertise provided by The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) and certification provided by The Henry Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine (HJF). Since its introduction in 2002, the course has collected an impressive list of institutional licensees, including major federal organizations and private healthcare and academic institutions. Click the link below for a full demonstration.
Also new for 2005, all course lectures are available on CD-ROM (see below).
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 		        INCLUDED IN THE COURSE:
  • 13 streaming Flash multimedia didactic lecture presentations covering 10 Biological, Chemical, and Nuclear weapons of terrorism and warfare, Principles of Decontamination, Psychological Aspects of WMD, and an introduction by Vice Admiral James Zimble, M.D., President of USUHS. All lectures contain full transcripts and audio narration.
  • 10 Medulator cases which allow course students to apply the principles learned in the didactic presentations. Cases can be book-marked for interrupted case sessions.
  • Secure Learning Management System for tracking course progress and managing registration information.
  • 50-multiple choice question post-test leading to Certification of Completion by HJF.
The course is available for individual or institutional license. For more information about the Medical Response to Weapons of Mass Destruction course, click on the picture above to go to the demonstration site, or Contact Us.
System Requirements: Internet Explorer 4.0+ recommended; Flash Player 7; audio speakers or headphones.

  New for 2005! Medical Response to Weapons of Mass Destruction course lectures are now available for purchase on CD-ROM (Windows only) for only $20 plus S&H. To order from Medantic Technology, Click Here.
  NOTE: Requires Internet Explorer 4.0+ and Flash Player 7.