NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
HealthStream, Inc. (NASDAQ: HSTM), a leading provider of workforce,
patient experience, and provider solutions for the healthcare industry,
today announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with
EBSCO Health to offer a unique Clinical Skills Development Program,
delivering innovative clinical competency solutions that meet a wide
range of clinical staff development needs. EBSCO Health is a leading
provider of evidence-based clinical information, healthcare business
intelligence, and peer-reviewed medical research tools for the
healthcare community. Together, HealthStream and EBSCO Health will
deliver its evidence-based skills and procedures content through
HealthStream's mobile-ready platform and via EBSCO Health's native app,
the Nursing Reference Center™ Plus, also
known as Clinical Skills Center™ and Clinical Decision Support™.
To minimize time to decision, Nursing Reference Center Plus is
fully integrated with EMRs.
HealthStream and EBSCO Health's new Clinical Skills Development Program
can be used for learning and professional development, as well as for
reference purposes. This partnership fulfills the dual needs of
point-of-care access and professional development which has become
increasingly important for healthcare organizations. The more
comprehensive approach of the Clinical Skills Development Program
ensures that the development of clinical skills are aligned to key
organizational initiatives and available to frontline staff when and
where they need it.
Robert A. Frist, Jr., Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer,
HealthStream, commented, "Improving healthcare will always start with
those delivering the care—and that's why HealthStream and EBSCO Health
are 100% committed to supporting healthcare professionals with the most
advanced, innovative, and accessible clinical knowledge and skills
training available anywhere. In fact, with EBSCO Health's clinical
expertise and our expansive network and robust technology, we are
creating a new vision for improving clinical competencies—one that
expedites learning in the multiple modalities required by
outcomes-focused healthcare organizations."
As part of the new program, EBSCO's clinical skills will also be built
into HealthStream's Checklist Management™ application to conveniently
provide the means to validate and document skills acquisition in one
central place, providing an automated audit trail for ease of
organizational reporting. Introduced last year, hundreds of thousands of
healthcare professionals currently subscribe and routinely use Checklist
Management within their respective healthcare organizations. More than
ever, supporting the accumulation of knowledge, development of skills,
and ultimate validation of competency outcomes is essential to providing
quality patient care, as well as meeting regulatory and accreditation
standards. The Joint Commission requires initial and ongoing competency
assessment and documentation on elements of performance.
EBSCO's Clinical Skills Center and Decision Support resources include
more than 1,400 standardized skills and procedures across 50+ clinical
specialties, and over 17,000 evidence-based entries that cover a wide
range of clinical topics, as well as over 8,000 patient-teaching
handouts that can facilitate caregiver-patient communication. The
superior quality of EBSCO Health's evidence-based clinical content has
been widely recognized in the healthcare industry, awarded by KLAS as
having the "highest overall performance," according to their report, Clinical
Decision Support 2013: Sizing up the Competition.
"We are excited to provide EBSCO Health's premium, unbiased and
evidence-based content to clinical staff through HealthStream's
platform, the most widely adopted platform for workforce development in
healthcare, which is used by over 4.5 million healthcare professionals
with over 40 percent of them working as nurses" said Betsy Jones, Senior
Vice President of EBSCO Health. "Together, EBSCO Health and HealthStream
are offering healthcare professionals the best possible educational
solutions to ensure a competent and skilled clinical workforce, while
also delivering the best evidence-based point-of care-solution, which
is—as we all know—the key to quality patient care and improved outcomes."
To learn more about HealthStream's Clinical Competency Solutions, go to www.healthstream.com.
About HealthStream
HealthStream (NASDAQ: HSTM) is dedicated to improving patient outcomes
through the development of healthcare organizations' greatest asset:
their people. Our unified suite of solutions is contracted by,
collectively, approximately 4.5 million healthcare employees in the U.S.
for workforce development, training & learning management, talent
management, performance assessment, and managing simulation-based
education programs. Our research solutions provide valuable insight to
healthcare providers to meet HCAHPS requirements, improve the patient
experience, engage their workforce, and enhance physician alignment. Our
provider solutions offer healthcare providers innovative tools to
support healthcare organizations in appropriately credentialing and
privileging their workforce. Based in Nashville, Tennessee, HealthStream
has additional offices in Laurel, Maryland; Brentwood, Tennessee;
Pensacola, Florida; Jericho, New York; Boulder; Colorado; and San Diego,
California. For more information, visit http://www.healthstream.com
or call 800-933-9293.
About EBSCO Health
EBSCO Health, part of EBSCO Information Services, is a leading provider
of clinical decision support solutions, healthcare business
intelligence, and medical research information for the healthcare
industry. EBSCO Health users include professionals in medicine, nursing,
and allied health. Flagship products include CINAHL®, DynaMed
Plus®, Nursing Reference Center™, clinical e-books and
e-journals, EBSCO Discovery Service™, licensed databases (such as MEDLINE®),
plus EBSCONET®. EBSCO databases are powered by EBSCOhost®,
the electronic resource favored by libraries around the world.
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differ materially from actual future events or results. This information
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harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of
1995. Investors are cautioned that such results or events predicted in
these statements may differ materially from actual future events or
results. The Company's preliminary financial results, while presented
with numerical specificity, are forward-looking statements which are
based on a variety of assumptions regarding the Company's operating
performance that may not be realized, and which are subject to
significant uncertainties and potential contingencies associated with
the Company's financial and accounting procedures and other matters
referenced from time to time in the Company's filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission. Consequently, such forward-looking
information should not be regarded as a representation or warranty by
the Company that such projections will be realized.
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HealthStream, Inc.
Mollie Condra, Ph.D., 615-301-3237
Vice
President, Investor Relations & Communications
Mollie.condra@healthstream.com
Source: HealthStream, Inc.
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