JERICHO NY USA -- MAY 03 2005 -- Health Care Compliance Strategies,
Inc. (HCCS) today announced a courseware bundle offer: New clients
purchasing the HCCS Corporate Compliance or Professional Compliance Online
Training Courseware will receive any two HCCS Quality Improvement courses
at no additional fee. HCCS is the leading provider of online multimedia
healthcare compliance and competency training courses.
In addition to receiving the widely-used HCCS Professional & Corporate
online training courses, clients can choose two of the eight courses in
the HCCS Quality Improvement Suite. The 8 courses are: -- Patient Safety
-- Reducing Medication Errors -- Infection Control -- Organizational
Performance Improvement -- Competency for Quality Care -- Patient Rights
-- Patient Education -- Documentation for Quality Care
"We understand the difficulty of educating a large, distributed,
multi-shift workforce in a myriad of vital regulatory and improvement
areas," said HCCS VP William Sacks. "This new training solution broadens
the educational impact for healthcare organizations to meet that
challenge," he said. "Our goal with this bundle is to continue to help
organizations meet their most critical training needs without having to
dig deeper into already tight training budgets."
The Professional Compliance courseware covers Fraud Awareness, Billing
Compliance, Coding & Documentation, Teaching Physician Rules, and
Physician Referral Guidelines.
The Corporate Compliance courseware covers Basic & Advanced Risk Areas,
Provider Relationships, Billing & Reimbursement, Documentation & Coding,
EMTALA, Patient Care Risk Areas and Effective Compliance Elements for all
staff members.
Healthcare organizations choosing the Corporate or Professional
courseware now will add depth to their education programs by adding any
two courses from the HCCS Quality Improvement courseware, without any
additional expense for one year. These QI courses are designed to
communicate quality improvement initiatives that can impact every staff
member. The courses are fully customizable to facilitate communication of
organization-specific policies and procedures.
The online Internet/Intranet HCCS courseware provides general and
detailed education on a wide range of critical topics that physicians,
staff members and administrators must understand. HCCS presents the
information in a series of short, entertaining modules - with a
combination of multimedia scenarios, audio, text, and interactive
exercises engaging 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 or
other related information becomes available. HCCS has made the content
job-function specific and fully customizable, with automatic updates and
comprehensive management reports.
ABOUT HEALTH CARE COMPLIANCE STRATEGIES (hccs) HCCS provides online
compliance and competency training courseware to hospitals, research and
teaching facilities, HMOs, managed care facilities, medical schools, and
specialized healthcare entities. The courses provide a cost-effective way
to meet compliance and quality rules while controlling the costs of
educating employees. HCCS' unique online courseware offers timely and
engaging full-motion video of real-life scenarios, interactive questions
and answers, student tracking and comprehensive management reporting.
HCCS has designed its multimedia compliance training programs to
educate physicians and employees in hospitals, health systems and health
plans. Other courses in the HCCS Compliance Library include "HIPAA
Compliance: Privacy, Security & Electronic Transactions," "Research
Compliance Suite," and "Accreditation Suite." Hundreds of healthcare
facilities nationwide use HCCS programs, with over 700,000 registered
learners.
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