April 2005 — The International Virtual Medical School (IVIMEDS) and the Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) have announced the start of a close collaboration. The two not-for-profit organizations will make portions of their holdings available to each other using Web Services with an interoperable metadata application profile. Once these Web Services are in place, HEAL users will be able to discover resources assembled or created by IVIMEDS, such as its collection of virtual patients and shareable content objects (SCOs). Conversely, IVIMEDS users will be able to find and retrieve assets assembled by HEAL, including 20,000 images, animations, and videoclips.

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