This is where you will find the latest news on information technologies currently being employed or investigated by the Department of Emergency Medicine.

Developed by The Department of Emergency Medicine

• ManitobaCPD.com  

Purchased by The Department of Emergency Medicine

• Adobe Connect Pro
• Survey Monkey

ManitobaCPD.com

 This application supports the online sharing of word, excel, pdf, text and powerpoint documents without loss of formatting. You can download, edit then re-upload your documents and share them with other users in your workgroup. You can use this application to create, edit, update and delete your room bookings. Print or email reservation comfirmations and reminders automatically. You can manage your equipment inventory and bookings with ease. Our intuitive interface has your up and running instantly and allows you to get the most out of your equipment. Rediscover things you forgot you had. Make, modify and update reservations, and track usage patterns. The implementation of this solution is at http://em2schedule.com/

Research and Scholarly Project Manager Application

 The IT Section of the Department of Emergency Medicine was approached by the Section of Clinical Research to take a research database project written for Microsoft Access and translate if to a web enabled platform and extend it’s functionality. We have completed the first phase having translated it to a web accessible Rails implementation hosted at at http://em2research.com/. Currently it is a simple online application for coordinating research activities and generating reports on research activities. One can register and monitor ongoing projects as well as catalog completed projects and publications using this site. The plan now moving into phase 2 is to extend it's functionality to add support for calendaring and multiple organization hosting. The long term plan is to market the application back to other research departments at the U of M.

Acuity Software’s STAR system is a web based application that tracks faculty member activities (research, teaching/education, administration, professional) in a single data repository. Its reporting functions allow different users and administrative groups to extract and report data to address a variety of requirements. It allows the tracking and reporting of faculty member activities, which will give the Department of Emergency Medicine the capability to measure contributions and remunerate individuals according to their contributions.

Login to STAR using Internet Explorer

Adobe Connect Pro is a cutting edge webinar (web conferencing and eLearning) tool that the department is purchasing. Roll out and testing is set for August 2008. Adobe Connect Pro allows users to interact online in a classroom environment. It supports live webcam, live VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) and Desktop/window/whitebord sharing. It runs right off your existing browser, so no software to install! Also web seminars once conducted can be saved at published for viewing at a later date. You can 'bake in' questionnaires and surveys to the webinars and audit the responses using the back end admin interface.

Adobe Connect Pro also has huge potential as a facilitator of departmental meetings. Emergency Medicine because its distributed nature presents logistical challenges to meeting in person. This application affords the department the opportunity to meet online and to cache the content of the meetings automatically.

Accessing Adobe Connect Pro Interface

• Administrator Interface: http://umanitoba.adobeconnect.com/

Billed by it's manufacturer as... "Intelligent survey software for primates of all species. SurveyMonkey has a single purpose: to enable anyone to create professional online surveys quickly and easily." SurveyMonkey lives up to its claim at a price that can't be beat.

To get access to this tool and start building surveys of your own in the department contact Chris Cowan.