Next Generation Medical Education Platforms Now Available to Enhance Physician Learning Through Online Communities

SANTA CRUZ, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--InQuill Medical Communications, LLC today announced partnerships with social media start-ups Medikly, LLC and 2digiti, LLC to enhance health professional continuing education and patient care.

“Social learning and networking now have relevancy to healthcare. These technologies are user-friendly with high adoption rates. Plus, healthcare companies can benefit from new sources of revenue through these channels. It's a new day for CME, both in content delivery and funding.”

The partners will jointly offer social learning and mobile phone texting services to health institutions, clinics, medical education companies, and individual practitioners, both in the U.S. and abroad. This enables quick and easy creation of online healthcare provider communities, encouraging connection, interaction, and learning, based on content and shared experiences. Two-way, interactive communications will reinforce learning and best practices. Patient-doctor communications centered on health maintenance and treatment compliance will follow in the near future.

CME (Continuing Medical Education), is undergoing a revolution in the U.S. prompted by a) the health industry's focus on medical error reduction through improved professional education, b) innovation in information delivery technologies, and c) re-accreditation of CME Providers under the new performance guidelines of ACCME (Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education). These trends indicate the need and demand for platforms (such as Medikly/2digiti) that provide interactive, "just in time" information to healthcare providers.

"By partnering with Medikly and 2digiti, our Medical Education Partners have new ways of presenting content in multiple media, thereby reinforcing learning and new practices among physician audiences," said Johanna Lackner Marx, MPH, MSW, CCMEP, President of InQuill, and an expert in CME and physician learning. "We can now assist our clients even more by leveraging our medical education and marketing expertise with innovative communications technologies."

Venkat Gullapalli, MD, CEO of Medikly and 2digiti added, "Social learning and networking now have relevancy to healthcare. These technologies are user-friendly with high adoption rates. Plus, healthcare companies can benefit from new sources of revenue through these channels. It's a new day for CME, both in content delivery and funding."

InQuill Medical Communications, LLC, based near Santa Cruz, California, creates multi-media medical education for worldwide clients, trains medical writers on the updated ACCME guidelines, and provides CME services to organizations.

Medikly, LLC and 2digiti, LLC based in the New York City area, provide social learning and mobile messaging platforms, enabling healthcare organizations to create communities and enhance the learning of their healthcare provider audiences.