KAISER PERMANENTE SELECTS COMPLIANCE & HIPAA TRAINING FROM HCCS

PRESS RELEASE
Contact: David Rosenthal
Health Care Compliance Strategies Inc
877-933-4227 phone
dmr@hccs.com

KAISER PERMANENTE SELECTS COMPLIANCE & HIPAA TRAINING FROM HCCS http://www.hccs.com

JERICHO NY USA -- MEDICAL PRESS RELEASE -- FEB 22 2005 -- Health Care Compliance Strategies, Inc. (HCCS), the leading provider of online multimedia healthcare compliance and competency training courses, today announced that Kaiser Permanente, the leading integrated health plan, has selected HCCS compliance and HIPAA training courseware to educate its staff enterprise-wide.

"We understand the difficulty of educating a large, distributed, multi-shift workforce with varied learning requirements. This comprehensive training solution provides such an organization with the ability to meet that challenge," says Mitchell Diamond, President of HCCS.

Kaiser Permanente staff members will have access to the HCCS courses, "Fraud Awareness: Professional Compliance," "Fraud Awareness: Corporate Compliance" and "HIPAA Compliance." The courseware will be directed to over 150,000 Kaiser Permanente staff members nationwide. In addition, HCCS will provide several blended learning tools, such as classroom toolkits (complete instructor led presentation with integrated multimedia scenarios) and videotapes to complement the online learning.

The online Internet/Intranet HCCS courseware provides general and detailed education on a wide range of critical regulatory topics that staff members are required to understand. The information is presented in a series of short, entertaining modules. A combination of multimedia scenarios, audio, text and interactive exercises engage the viewer, adding learner participation to the experience.

Clients using HCCS' computer-based training receive automated updates to the courses, whenever regulations, documents, legal rulings, settlements and other new information becomes available. The HCCS content is job-function specific, fully customizable and automatically updated. Comprehensive management reports are provided.

HCCS' multimedia compliance training programs are designed to educate physicians and employees in hospitals, health systems and health plans. Other courses in the Compliance Library include the following multi-course suites: "Research Compliance Suite" and "Accreditation Compliance Suite." HCCS programs are in use at hundreds of health care facilities nationwide, with over 750,000 registered users.

ABOUT KAISER PERMANENTE:

Kaiser Permanente is America's leading integrated health plan. Founded in 1945, it is a not-for-profit, group practice prepayment program with headquarters in Oakland CA. Kaiser Permanente serves the health care needs of some 8.2 million members in 9 states and the District of Columbia. Today it encompasses the not-for-profit Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc., Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and its subsidiaries, and the for-profit Permanente Medical Groups. Nationwide, Kaiser Permanente includes approx. 134,000 technical, administrative and clerical employees and more than 12,000 physicians representing all specialties.

http://www.kaiserpermanente.org

ABOUT HEALTH CARE COMPLIANCE STRATEGIES, INC. (HCCS):

HCCS provides compliance and competency online training courseware to hospitals, teaching facilities, HMOs, managed care facilities, medical schools, and other health care entities. The courses provide a cost-effective way to meet compliance and accreditation rules, and to control the costs of employee education. HCCS' unique on-line courseware provides timely and engaging, full motion video of real-life scenarios, interactive questions and answers, student tracking, and comprehensive management reporting.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, OR TO REQUEST A DEMONSTRATION, PLEASE CONTACT:

David M. Rosenthal
Vice President
Health Care Compliance Strategies, Inc.
30 Jericho Executive Plaza Ste 400C
Jericho NY USA 11753-1098
877-933-4227 phone
dmr@hccs.com
http://www.hccs.com

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