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HealthStream's Learning Solutions Selected by Bon Secours Health System
HealthStream's Learning Solutions Selected by Bon Secours Health System
Aug 05, 2004
NASHVILLE, Tenn.—(BusinessWire)—August 5, 2004—HealthStream, Inc., the leading provider of learning solutions for the healthcare industry, today announced that it has been selected by Bon Secours Health System (BSHSI) to provide learning solutions to its employees, with a three-year contract signed by both parties. The HealthStream Learning Center, HealthStream’s online learning platform, will be initially rolled out to approximately 9,700 healthcare professionals in four local systems, beginning in August, 2004. At the same time, Competency Compass™, HealthStream’s performance assessment and management software application, will be rolled out to approximately 20 percent of these healthcare professionals.
“With HealthStream’s enterprise-class learning platform, I am confident that we are well positioned to advance our organization to the next level of educational excellence. The completeness of their learning solution, matched with their healthcare expertise, made our decision to transition to the HealthStream Learning Center an obvious move in the right direction for BSHSI,” said David Jones, VP-HR for Bon Secours Health System.
By selecting the HealthStream Learning Center, Bon Secours managers will be empowered to author online courses, assign courses, create pre-tests and post-tests for courses, and create and print employees’ course completion reports. Along with self-published courses, managers may choose from a wide range of HealthStream-delivered courseware for their students. From HealthStream’s extensive online library, Bon Secours chose core regulatory courses—as required by JCAHO and OSHA, corporate compliance courses—including HIPAA training, and core competency courses on a wide range of clinical and professional skills.
In addition to the numerous benefits that will be gained by training on HealthStream’s online platform, the facilities that comprise the Bon Secours Health System will utilize Competency Compass to identify, assess, and track employee competencies. As a “first-in-the-industry” comprehensive solution for hospitals, Competency Compass will provide Bon Secours Health System with a powerful, innovative tool for workforce development, performance management, and succession planning.
Through Competency Compass, HealthStream offers the industry’s first and only competency dictionary for hospital-based staff, which includes over 1,200 clinical and non-clinical positions. Once hospital managers have assessed their staff’s competencies through Competency Compass, areas for improvement can be mapped to the specific clinical content needed. To fulfill these needs, HealthStream offers an extensive online library of clinical courseware from leading medical publishers, including an exclusive nursing skills series from Pearson Prentice Hall. HealthStream’s workforce development approach offers Bon Secours Health System a complete solution for their workforce development.
“We are pleased to be selected by health systems of the high caliber represented by Bon Secours Health System. Our focus on offering our customers a complete learning solution that meets the needs of enterprise-level organizations differentiates HealthStream from other providers of online learning—and it’s paying off for our customers,” said Robert A. Frist, Jr., chief executive officer, HealthStream. “We look forward to launching the HealthStream Learning Center and Competency Compass with the Bon Secours Health System in the next several weeks.”
About HealthStream
HealthStream (NASDAQ: HSTM) is a leading provider of learning solutions for the healthcare industry. Approximately 997,000 contracted healthcare professionals have selected the Internet-based HealthStream Learning Center™, HealthStream’s learning platform. The Company’s learning products and services are used by healthcare organizations to meet the full range of their training needs, while, concurrently, supporting business objectives. Once subscribed to the HealthStream Learning Center™, customers benefit from increased compliance, reduced risks, and improved learning effectiveness. In addition, HealthStream has pioneered a new collaboration with pharmaceutical and medical device companies to assist them in product launch and market education initiatives within the Company’s nationwide network of hospital customers. Nine of the top ten medical device companies and eight of the top ten pharmaceutical companies are among the organizations in HealthStream’s growing customer base. (www.healthstream.com)
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