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The American Academy of Pediatrics Partners with HealthStream to Provide Online Examinations within their Neonatal Resuscitation Program
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Sep 22, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- HealthStream, Inc. (NASDAQ: HSTM), a leading provider of learning and research solutions for the healthcare industry, today announced that it has been selected by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) to develop and offer the online examinations that are required in the Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP). The online examinations will be updated in keeping with the sixth edition of the Textbook of Neonatal Resuscitation, which will be published by the American Heart Association and the AAP in early 2011. Launch of the online examinations is expected in April 2011.
According to the AAP, approximately 10 percent of newborns require some assistance to begin breathing at birth, while one percent requires extensive resuscitation measures to survive. The NRP is an educational program that introduces the concepts and basic skills of neonatal resuscitation. The NRP course consists of nine lessons where successful completion of each requires a passing score on an examination. Successful completion of the NRP also requires a performance evaluation of neonatal resuscitation skills, which will be conducted after completion of the online examination. Each hospital is responsible for determining the level of competence and qualifications required for someone to assume clinical responsibility for neonatal resuscitation.
Beginning in 2012, the NRP lesson examination will be available exclusively online through the AAP's partnership with HealthStream. Healthcare professionals may access the online examination through their healthcare organization's internal online learning site (e.g. the HealthStream Learning Center) or through the AAP website, which will direct them to a customized HealthStream website for AAP that will have e-commerce capabilities for individual transactions. The availability of online lesson examinations adds convenience, cost-savings, and efficiency for the healthcare professionals that complete the NRP course each year.
"The AAP and its 60,000 members are dedicated to supporting the health and safety of all infants, children, adolescents, and young adults--and the healthcare professionals who provide care to them. The NRP is an important educational program in this process," said Dr. Errol R. Alden, executive director, AAP. "Our partnership with HealthStream greatly advances our ability to make completion of the NRP broadly available and easily accessible, thus ultimately increasing the quality of care to neonatal patients."
"We are excited to partner with the AAP to provide the online examination component of their NRP, the gold-standard for developing neonatal resuscitation skills," said Robert A. Frist, Jr., chairman and chief executive officer, HealthStream. "Our vision to support the healthcare professionals who provide care to patients is strongly reinforced by the services we will provide for the AAP and its membership. I look forward to a productive partnership with them in the coming months and years."
If you are a healthcare professional and have questions about the upcoming online examinations within NRP, please feel free to send your query to us at nrponline@healthstream.com or call us at 1-800-521-0574 and press selection # 7.
About HealthStream
HealthStream (NASDAQ: HSTM) is a leading provider of learning and research solutions for the healthcare industry, transforming insight into action to deliver outcomes-based results for healthcare organizations. Through HealthStream's learning solutions--which have been contracted by over 2.2 million hospital-based healthcare professionals--healthcare organizations create safer environments for patients, increase clinical competencies of their workforces, and facilitate the rapid transfer of the latest knowledge and technologies. Through our research products, executives from healthcare organizations gain valuable insight about patients' experiences, workforce challenges, physician relations, and community perceptions of their services. Based in Nashville, Tennessee, HealthStream has two satellite offices. For more information about HealthStream's learning and research solutions, visit www.healthstream.com or call us at 800-933-9293.
About the American Academy of Pediatrics
The American Academy of Pediatrics is an organization of 60,000 primary care pediatricians, pediatric medical subspecialists and pediatric surgical specialists dedicated to the health, safety and well being of infants, children, adolescents and young adults. For more information, visit www.aap.org.
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SOURCE: HealthStream, Inc.
HealthStream, Inc.
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