March 2017 MedEdQR Newsletter

A message from the CEO

From its March 2015 startup to a nearly completed MedEdQR Version 1.3 product, MedEdQR LLC has been focused on providing the medical education community a unique and innovative platform for the delivery of virtual patient cases. Born from my experience with virtual patient case delivery within a Problem Based Learning (PBL) medical school environment, the core educational benefits of using the MedEdQRplatform continues to expand. Some of the basic curricular benefits include:

  • increased medical student engagement within cases and between users though the use of innovative user interfaces and product features,
  • providesenhanced anytime/anywhere collaborativeexperience through the use of ubiquitous smart phones or tablets as the primary delivery mechanism,
  • implements ability for case builders to quickly develop and deploy case content, by providing Physical Exam, Lab Test and rich Media libraries, and
  • assessmentand reporting opportunities through user tracking, and other built-in features.

Lately, through the addition of requested new features, the platform has burst its bounds by expanding its viability to not only medical students, but to clerkship/clinical students, medical residents and practitioners. We have learnedthrough product demonstrations during this past fall, that there are even opportunities for the platform’s use in marketing, sales and HR. But that just brings us to the current version of MedEdQR – i.e. Version 1.2. We are now working on Version 1.3 which will be our first full release product and available for evaluation in Q2, 2017.

With regards to our website ( we are working continuously to improve its performance and content. Soon we will be adding video tutorials as well as a video introduction to MedEdQR. Visit the site often to view the updates and please, if you have any feedback, please email us.

Our Mission

Our mission is to significantly, positively, and measurably improve medical practitioner knowledge comprehension and retention, resulting in higher quality patient-centered care and greater empathy, through the use of innovative technology within clinical and case-based engagements using a SaaS platform and mobile device that:

  • does not interfere with clinical and / or diagnostic workflow (”Dr think"),
  • works as well in both virtual, real, and simulated (hybrid virtual and real) learning environments,
  • works in self paced and temporal classroom settings,
  • works for the individual or in collaboration with other users,
  • works in remedial and continuing education settings, and
  • does not require the practitioner to sit in front of a computer to engage a patient - virtual or real.

Current Status of MedEdQR

Version 1.1 of MedEdQR was released just prior to September 2016. It was that version that was demonstrated to prospective customers. From feedback gatheredfrom the nearly 40 demonstrations done between September and December 2016, we continued to improve the platform using agile development techniques until the end of the year when Version 1.2 completed. Not resting on our laurels, there were a number of highly requested features not included in Version 1.2 but are now under development in Version 1.3. Some of the features that were added to Version 1.2 were:

  • moving the left hand vertical main menu to a horizontal position at the top of the web-app,
  • adding of individual and group notes,
  • revision some display grid names, table names and column names to improve clarity,
  • localization of Physical Exam and Lab Test new entries by case builders (i.e. the ability for adepartmental case builder to add additional PEs and LTs to the MedEdQR library),
  • revision of smart device headers while in case to include institution, department and group (if any),
  • improvements on smart device UI to include “Sign Out” of case, revision of long list scrolling and swiping, and
  • overall consistency improvements.

The most interesting thing about our Fall 2016 demos was the interest shown by health case systems. Furthermore, our demos were not limited to the U.S.. We had a number of demos to international prospects heralding from such countries as Singapore, India, and South Africa.

Version 1.3

We are excited about the new features to be added to the MedEdQR platform in Version 1.3. Again, these improvements and features are a result of feedback from our Fall 2016 demos and discussions with colleagues within medical education institutions. Some of the web-app updates include:

  • the addition of the user’s name when writing group notes,
  • a new quizzes dashboard supporting a case builder expandable library of questions and quizzes,
  • the ability to use a quiz as a branching jump off point to other content, for situations where the inclusion of “clinical reasoning” is important,
  • an “End of Case” button that certifies that the user has completed a case in its entirety, (for CME situations), and
  • a new reporting dashboard with pre-programmed reports covering users, and cases.

This version was started in January 2017 and will be completed late in Q1 or by early in Q2, 2017.

Beyond Version 1.3

Well we can’t spill the beans quite yet about our plans for future versions of MedEdQR, but I can tell you at least one will blow you away in terms of the smart device user interface. It will definitely be a major differentiator between ourselves and our competition.

Next Month

Introducing the development team.

Version 1.3 update.