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It has demonstrated that it can successfully empower health providers to better performance, improved patient care and greater personal and workplace satisfaction, using affordable state-of-the-art, off-the-shelf Information Technology.</p> <p>These pioneering methodologies make it possible to deploy IT in the delivery of world class health education/training seamlessly and reliably to practitioners in the remotest community to cosmopolitan capital cities wherever they be located. <a href="http://www.empowercomm.com/acmepop.html" target="_blank"> Read More.</a>&nbsp;</p> <p><font color="#3D57A7"><b>How does it work?</b></font></p> <div align="center"> <table border="0" width="90%"> <tr> <td width="100%" bgcolor="#CEE4AB"> <p align="center"><font color="#3D57A7" size="4"><b>REAL INTERACTIVE&nbsp; OPERATIONAL MODEL</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"><img border="0" src="images/diagram.jpg" width="661" height="348"></td> </tr><p> <ol TYPE="A"> <li>Advantages of the ACME-IT methodology: </li> <ol TYPE="a"> <li>Promotes institutional brainstorming of solutions to practical health delivery problems</li> <li>Boosts staff morale and cooperation</li> <li>Improves continuity of patient care</li> <li>More cost effective over conventional workshop training</li> <li>Reduces hospital staff absenteeism due to off-site training</li> <li>Encourages the translation of knowledge gains into competencies</li> <li>Accelerates the dissemination on new health care and public health protocols and policies</li> <li>Brings the best teachers to a large number of learners</li> </ol> <p> B. Implementation and Support Services Supplied by Empowering Communications <ol TYPE="a"><li>Designs hardware and software IT architecture for distance learning to bring quality learning to anyplace in the world, with specific expertise in medium and low income countries</li> <li>Establishes learning and knowledge resources centers as well as commercially viable Cybercafés for Health in health care institutions</li> <li>Trains staff in systems operations</li> <li>Incentivizes staff participation in and commitment to in-station CME</li> <li>Promotes a culture of high quality customer services in the delivery of medical education</li> <li>Supervises and informs curriculum design</li> <li>Advices facility administration on human resource policy and protocol innovations that promote staff learning</li> </ol>C. A New Learning Laboratory </li> </ol> <blockquote> <p> <font color="#3D57A7"><b>Empowering Communications </b></font>is dedicated to advancing the frontiers of medical education using innovative IT solutions. Through qualitative and quantitative research, Empowering Communication has gathered a wealth of lessons learned from the practical application of IT to Continuing Medical Education, and acts a clearing house of best practices-- using vertical and horizontal learning paradigms and other synchronous, interactive group distance learning techniques.</p> </blockquote> </table> </div> </TD></TR> </TBODY></TABLE></DIV></CENTER></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></BODY></HTML>