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Digital transformation is at the forefront of innovation in the medical industry, as it offers immediate benefits such as eliminating the need to store and maintain physical documents
What Is Blueprint Academia?
Blueprint Academia is focused on faculty achievement management and working to support faculty success. We take a unique approach by looking at the needs of faculty first. Taking this bottom-up approach to crafting software for the medical industry creates a more complete perspective on operations, improves user-friendliness, and results in a better product.
You can replace countless paper processes in one stroke with the efficient, digital format that we offer. Blueprint Academia improves on other programs because it offers many modules in one system, and all of these modules communicate to eliminate redundant data entry and save time.
Blueprint Academia Modules
Blueprint Academia contains numerous modules that contribute to the value of the whole package, but eight stand out in terms of importance. These are:
- Centralized Academic CV Management
- CME and Licensure Manager
- QI Portfolio Manager
- Achievement Management, Productivity Tracker, and Productivity Score
- Teaching Portfolio Manager
- Automated ACGME Reporter
- Mentorship Management
- Interview Management
Each offers comparable or better functionality as compared to a single-role program. The advantage of bringing them together is that they can communicate as one comprehensive system. When you fill out a field in one module, the system automatically shares that data with other modules. Instead of inputting identical information into each system manually, you only need to write it in once.
Centralized Academic CV Management
CME and Licensure Manager
QI Portfolio Manager
Achievement Management, Productivity…
Teaching Portfolio Manager
Automated ACGME Reporter
Mentorship Management
Interview Management
Centralized Academic CV Management
Our Centralized Academic CV Management module is the one point of data entry that propagates information throughout the system. It comes with powerful automation features that integrate data from PubMed and NIH to automatically fill out forms, track citations, and provide a clear impact factor.
The module does this by first accessing NIH databases and pulling information for academic publications from there. This consists of verifying that it's yours, reporting the type of publication, and establishing the field. From there, it sources data from Google Scholar to generate your citation count and weighs the number of citations against the academic authority of those citing your publication.
This automatically produces an internal database that ranks all of your publications by order of impact.
CME and Licensure Manager
Continued medical education poses a considerable obstacle to licensed professionals, as the requirements can be quite complex and vary by state. Our CME and Licensure manager automatically tracks current certifications against state requirements and reminds you of necessary qualifications.
Blueprint Academia works by tracking your existing and ongoing certifications and telling you whether or not you're on track to meet CME requirements. It does this by checking what you're doing against a comprehensive internal database covering every state, ensuring you get accurate feedback from the program. You can take extra steps to keep your credentials in order with Credentials Management, which will track the expiration dates on your certifications and warn you if you're falling behind.
QI Portfolio Manager
Quality improvement is a broad umbrella for any project that aims to improve the quality of your processes. While the role of QI is often unclear due to inconsistent processes or a lack of standardization, the Blueprint Academia QI Portfolio Manager resolves these issues and facilitates informed QI efforts.
Our QI Portfolio Manager provides a custom module to record, track, and generate reports based on data from this and other modules. Standardizing quality improvement in this way reaps the benefits of digital automation while also clarifying the relative value of your QI projects.
Achievement Management and Productivity Tracker
Identifying productivity and hard work is the first step to rewarding it, and this is where the Achievement Management module comes into play. It represents a flexible tool to track and assign scores to workforce productivity, helping leadership reward those doing an outstanding job while giving workers perspective on their output.
The achievement management tool works by tracking tasks such as teaching, presenting at conferences, publishing papers, or doing research. Each task receives a productivity score, and individual workers have their own associated productivity score for the year. Most staff members see a generalized, team-level productivity score as well as their own, while supervisors have individual-level access to productivity scores. As such, the productivity metric is useful at every level of your company, from top leadership down to individual employees.
Teaching Portfolio Manager
Teaching portfolios are extremely important when you go up for review ahead of a promotion, but they're not frequently used otherwise. Blueprint Academia keeps you ready for this eventuality with a custom teaching portfolio manager. It provides suitable, custom fields for you to input your teaching history as you go so that everything is ready when you go up for review.
Besides that, the teaching portfolio manager comes with extra team-level functionality. Supervisors can read their team members' teaching history, which can help them utilize their skills and experience more efficiently. Furthermore, the education calendar facilitates in-department teaching with reminders, invitation links, and recorded evaluations of the presenter and class.
Automated ACGME Reporter
Filling out reports to the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education is a job that can take multiple staff members months to do. With Blueprint Academia, you can complete this with the push of a button.
ACGME reports are traditionally time-consuming because the reports are exhaustive and you need to fill them out in a specific format. Going through records with a fine-toothed comb, compiling the necessary information into a Scholarly Activity Report (SAR), and sending it in is simply a job made for a machine. But as long as your staff members maintain their individual CVs, you can save months' worth of man-hours and generate your SAR automatically.
Mentorship Management
Mentorship is a critical element of medical education, but it's terribly underserved in GME programs. Blueprint Academia is the first tool to implement a comprehensive module to tackle this area, helping you connect the most compatible mentors and mentees with ease.
With the mentorship management tool, individuals are presented as either seeking a mentor or a mentee. It also presents a variety of individual information, such as specialties, professional goals, and preferences. Individuals and supervisors alike can use this to help create mentorships that will best serve both parties. Once the concerned parties agree on mentorship, the program will generate it via agreed-upon endpoints that present in their personal dashboards. While every organization talks about the value of mentorship, there's rarely a systematized approach to make the most of these opportunities for growth and learning. Blueprint Academia is the solution to this dilemma.
Interview Management
The interview management module is perfect for teams that want to make their interview process more efficient. Most programs still rely on handling this process on paper, but Blueprint Academia facilitates a fully digitized process that's more convenient and trackable.
From the start of the application process, Blueprint Academia enables applicants to make their applications within the system. Screening forms are also present, and there's a tool to track interview questions as well as responses and comments. The tool tracks all of this and presents it to the program director, improving clarity and making it easier to compare candidates for a position.
The Core Benefits that Blueprint Academia has to Offer are:
All Inclusive System
Bring all of your work within one automation-driven system to eliminate redundant data entry and prevent work from spilling over into personal time. Tackle burnout, boost morale, run a more efficient organization, and make the lives of medical staff better in the process.
Reminders and Notifications
Receive automatic email updates on scheduled events and time-sensitive activities, eliminating the risk of overlooking them and saving time you'd otherwise spend monitoring them.
Automate Manual Processes
Automate and digitize the faculty review process with a system that correlates CV information, performance notes, and other relevant data.
Comprehensive Reporting & Analytics
Convert numeric data into visual information with tools such as charts and graphs. Communicate important information and trends with greater ease, increase data comprehension, and eliminate the time investment to make these graphs manually.
Benefits to Using Blueprint Academia
Blueprint Academia is a massive program with many benefits, but you can distill its overall benefits surprisingly quickly. Cut down on data entry, eliminate duplicated work, introduce standardization and bring your systems into harmony with each other. While each individual module of Blueprint Academia has value on its own, it’s how these systems communicate and save time that truly improves efficiency and makes the lives of medical staff better
Blueprint Academia Sets The Standard
No other tool on the market provides the depth and breadth of functionality that we offer in one tool.
Feature | Blueprint Academia | Watermark | New Innovations | MedHub | Interfolio |
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Mentorship | |||||
Achievement Management | |||||
Faculty Activity | Partially | Partially | |||
QI Portfolios | Unclear | ||||
CME & Licensure | |||||
Advanced CV Functionality | Partial | Partial | |||
SMS-Based Attendance System | |||||
Interview Management | New Hires | ||||
Customization | Absolutely | Partial | Minimal | Minimal | Partial |
Cost | $$ | $$$$ | $$$ | $$$ | $$$$ |
Frequently Asked Questions
As expansive a program as Blueprint Academia is, people are bound to have questions. Here are the most common questions about the program, but if your question isn’t listed here, you can reach out at admin@blueprintacademia.com and we’ll be back to you shortly.
Blueprint Academia is suitable for individual as well as department-level use.
We believe it does, but you can be the judge and try it out yourself with our 45-day money-back guarantee.
Yes, Blueprint Academia takes feedback from users and uses this as a basis to guide new feature development.
Some data is available to anyone, but other fields have limited access to protect anonymity and privacy.
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