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MULTIWEBCAST Type Private Industry Electronic learning Founded October 2000 Headquarters Montreal, Quebec
CanadaServices Webcast Video podcast Service Provider Website MULTIWEBCAST “State-of-the-Art” Webcast Services MULTIWEBCAST “State-of-the-Art” Webcast Services, founded in 2000, is a Montreal, Quebec-based company which provides asynchronous webcast services for conference organizers and professional associations around the world.
MULTIWEBCAST also operates under the legal names of E-MedHosting, Multiassessment and the Multilearning Group.
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History
MULTIWEBCAST began its operation under the name of E-MedHosting.com Inc; it acquired its expertise in the continuing medical education domain (the name is still legally used). One of their first product was CMEonHIV.com (launched in 2000[1]), online CME presentations on HIV for healthcare professionals given by international experts.[2]
The company continued its expansion by launching on the same year CMEonDiabetes.com, providing CME conferences given by international experts in endocrinology, insulin resistance, prediabetes, metabolic syndrome and Type 2 diabetes.
The following years, the company launched a series of CME websites in the field of Hemophilia, Transplantation, Sleep Disorders, Prostate Health, ADHD.
In 2003, the company was involved in the first major online education activity for Canadian Physicians during the SARS breakout in Canada in 2003. Dr. Don Low, chief microbiologist at Toronto's Mount Sinai hospital, was halfway through a precautionary 10-day quarantine at his home when he gave a lecture that E-MedHosting published and translated in French within 24h for the Canadian Medical Association (CMA).[3].
In 2004, the company launched the first website fully dedicated to the research on C-reactive protein and the JUPITER trial, CRPhealth.com. Thanks to the involvement of Dr. Paul Ridker and other renown experts in the field, the website was featured by many media online[4][5]. Its General Public portal explain in non-scientific vocabulary the implication of the CRP in detection of heart attack.
In 2005, the company launched a series of CME websites in Australia geared towards Australian Specialists and General Practitioners.
In 2006, MULTIWEBCAST announced its first long-term webcast services contract [6] with The European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL).
Since then MULTIWEBCAST offers its webcast services to many conference organizers (Kenes, Eurocongress, KIT,...) and professional associations (EASL, EAES, EACS, SGO, IGCS, ESGO, ESC, EPA, EPA, EHA, ESPR, WSO and others)[7]
Recently, the company became an authorized accredited provider of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP)[8]
Products
Based on the MULTIWEBCAST's website, their main product is the Adobe Flash-based MULTIWEBCAST Platform featuring:
- Webcast animation: PowerPoint-like animations with laser pointer movements of the speaker;
- Search'n buildTM system, allowing viewers to build their own presentation based on all the available slides;
- Pre and Post animated quizzes, helping to evaluate the knowledge learned;
- Video Podcasts Talks on the Go!TM
- Online Accreditation
- Taking Notes feature, allowing viewer to take notes and save them while viewing a presentation;
- Discussion forums with the availability to create links to specific slides.
Services are offered in English, Spanish, German and French.
References
- ^ "who.godaddy.com". http://who.godaddy.com/WhoIs.aspx?domain=cmeonhiv.com. Whois result for CMEonHIV.com
- ^ "CMEonHIV.com". http://www.cmeonhiv.com. main page
- ^ "Online SARS education available". April 7, 2003. http://www.cmaj.ca/news/07a_04_03.shtml.
- ^ "KTIV NewsChannel 4 Sioux City". November 10, 2005. http://www.ktiv.com/Global/story.asp?S=9325058&nav=menu1474_11.
- ^ "Dugs.com". November 10, 2005. http://www.drugs.com/clinical_trials/womenheart-urges-women-talk-doctors-new-study-showing-statins-prevent-heart-attacks-deaths-6181.html.
- ^ "Multiwebcast & EASL partnership". http://www.multiwebcast.com/html/news.html.
- ^ "Multiwebcast Clients". http://www.multiwebcast.com/welcome/clients/.
- ^ "Multilearning Accreditation RACGP". http://www.racgp.org.au/scriptcontent/RACGP_viewEAR_new.cfm?ptype=ap§ion=Accredited_Education_Activity_Representatives.
External links
Categories:- Companies based in Montreal
- Internet companies of Canada
- Companies established in 2000
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