JERICHO, NY USA -- April 21, 2006 -- HCCS - Experts in
Healthcare Learning, today announced the immediate availability
of the HCCS Learning Management System (LMS) specifically
designed to address the critical and challenging staff education
needs of healthcare organizations. The HCCS LMS is a
full-featured online hosted system for planning, scheduling,
launching, managing, creating and reporting on online, offline
and Instructor-Led training courses and events. In addition to
basic and advanced LMS functionality, the system includes
healthcare specific functions that can not be found in any other
LMS.
The introduction of this LMS allows HCCS to provide a full end
to end training management solution to the healthcare enterprise,
says David Rosenthal, Vice President of HCCS. Healthcare
facilities can get started immediately with the confidence that
they are accessing an LMS that is already in use at over 300
healthcare facilities and with training courseware that has
nearly 1,000,000 registered learners.
HCCS has delivered over 2.5 million hours of compliance and
competency online training courses to healthcare facilities
nationwide. HCCS courseware has distinguished itself by the
delivery of multimedia courseware that provides the most
engaging, highest retention-rate adult learning courses. With the
introduction of this LMS, HCCS brings their vast online training
experience to the enterprise, offering a migration path from
departmental learning to enterprise learning. The LMS supports
the education plans of healthcare entities from small facilities
to the largest facilities in the nation.
Benefits for Learners
The HCCS LMS empowers learners to take charge of their own
professional development:
* Complete online courses, tests and surveys
* Single point of entry for all training at the institution
* Manage and monitor their own licenses and credentials
* Track progress and deficiency (Individualized Education
Plans)
* Register online for live and off-site courses
Benefits for Managers
The HCCS LMS provides management with proactive,
department-specific tools:
* View and update information specific to their staff
* Deploy department-specific content and tests
* Centralized reporting for all training activities at the
institution
* Develop and save custom reports for on demand compliance
reporting
Benefits for Educators/Administrators
The HCCS LMS allows educators to focus on developing and
delivering education.
* Create, update and assign access to learners
* Create learner-specific education curriculums
* Track and report on individual's Instructor-Led education
and Internet-based courses
* Custom healthcare compliance reporting developed to meet the
needs of accrediting bodies
* Open System to allow the addition of 3rd party
standards-compliant content and content created in-house.
We encourage every healthcare educator, whether your
responsibility is departmental or enterprise to take a look at
this system and compare it with any other system on the market.
HCCS' focus to support the mission of healthcare and to improve
the quality of patient care through education will be readily
apparent., states Mr. Rosenthal.
ABOUT HCCS
HCCS - Health Care Compliance Strategies, Inc. - provides
updated compliance and competency training courseware to
hospitals, health plans, teaching facilities, medical schools,
and other health care entities. The HCCS Compliance Learning
Library contains expert courseware content in the areas of
Professional, Corporate, HIPAA, Clinical Research and Quality
Improvement. HCCS courseware provides timely and engaging, full
motion video of real-life scenarios, interactive questions and
answers, student tracking, and comprehensive management
reporting.
HCCS programs are in use at hundreds of healthcare facilities
nationwide, with more than 950,000 registered users.