Healthstream Offers More Courses, Opportunities for Physicians, PAs
This fall, physicians and physician assistants will have access to richer and more convenient educational opportunities through HealthStream, a new online learning management system that goes live at BWH in November.
HealthStream will replace the current learning management system, Medcom T3, through which physicians, nurses and others have completed online courses for the past three to four years. HealthStream is more technologically-advanced and uses pictures and video and audio devices, as opposed to the text-only Medcom T3, which is no longer available for physicians as of Aug. 1.
Regulatory courses and opportunities for continuing education are available through HealthStream, as well as potential to develop Web-based courses. HealthStream also enables organizations to train staff on medical devices and supplies. Courses are accessible 24 hours a day, seven days a week from anywhere with an Internet connection.
One major advantage of HealthStream is that it will have a data feed from PeopleSoft so that when physicians’ data is changed in PeopleSoft, it will automatically be updated in HealthStream. This includes changes in job descriptions, titles and marital status.
Training sessions for HealthStream will be held in October for employees who will use the system and managers who will administer it. Those who currently use Medcom T3 will have access to HealthStream first, but the goal is to make it available to all interested departments.
After more than a year of research into learning management systems, Partners selected HealthStream, the country’s largest health care-focused learning management system. A multidisciplinary working group is responsible for implementation, including members from clinical and administrative areas across BWH. This group includes Robert Goldszer, MD, MBA, Debra Leven of Administration, Gwen Gilchrist of Provider Services, Angela Crutchfield and Melissa McLachlin of Human Resources, Janet Barnes of Compliance, Joseph Bernard and Christine Wright of IS, and Carol Luppi and Anne Bane of Nursing.