JERICHO NY USA -- DEC 12 2005 -- HCCS, the leading
provider of online multimedia healthcare compliance and competency
training courses, today announced that Plano, Texas-based Triad
Hospitals has selected HCCS compliance and HIPAA training courseware to
educate the physicians and staff at each of its nearly 60 hospitals and
surgical centers in 15 states.
More than 12,000 doctors and employees of Triad
Hospitals will have access to the HCCS online courses "Fraud Awareness -
Corporate Compliance,? "Fraud Awareness - Professional Compliance," and
"HIPAA Compliance." HCCS also will provide several blended-learning
toolkits for classroom training.
"It is difficult to educate and keep information
current for a large, multi-facility, multi-shift workforce with
different job functions," notes Mitchell Diamond, HCCS President. "Our
online courseware provides Triad staff with the training solution they
need for each hospital and every worker."
The online Internet/Intranet courseware provides
general and detailed education on a wide range of critical regulatory
topics that physicians and 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 become
available. HCCS content is job-function specific, fully customizable and
automatically updated. Comprehensive management reports are provided.
ABOUT TRIAD HOSPITALS:
Triad Hospitals, Inc. through its affiliates, owns
and manages hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers in small cities and
selected larger urban markets. Triad currently operates 49 hospitals and
10 ambulatory surgery centers in 15 states, with approx. 8,845 licensed
beds.
Triad manages multiple hospitals in Alabama,
Arkansas, Arizona, Indiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, South
Carolina and in Texas, where it owns a dozen hospitals. It maintains
ambulatory surgery centers in Arizona, Louisiana, Mississippi, New
Mexico, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas.
ABOUT HCCS:
Health Care Compliance Strategies, Inc. (HCCS)
provides updated compliance and competency training courseware to
hospitals, teaching facilities, medical schools and other health care
entities. The HCCS Compliance Learning Library contains expert
courseware content in professional, corporate, HIPAA, clinical research
and quality improvement. HCCS courseware provides timely and engaging,
full-motion video of real-life scenarios, interactive Q&A, student
tracking and comprehensive management reporting.
Other courses in the HCCS courseware library
include a "Quality Improvement Suite" providing education on Joint Commission, CMS,
state and other standards. Also available are a "Research Compliance
Suite," with courses covering "Grants & Contracts," "Use of Human
Subjects in Research," "Conflicts of Interest & Scientific Misconduct,"
and "Professional Relationships & Data Issues". HCCS programs are used
at hundreds of healthcare facilities nationwide, with over 900,000
registered users.
