The "Wired" Provider Organization

Education and technology converge at the intersection of “Meaningful Use.”    Training and professional development can be available at and targeted to point of patient care.  Continuous and customized education can address the gaps and needs revealed and mined in a dynamic database of digital patient care records.  Technology makes it possible to plan and provide a customized flow of continuing education synchronized to the specific panel of patients encountered in clinical practice.   Patients themselves become the textbook and the context for learning.  21st Century forward-looking healthcare organizations require:

• Dynamic education capabilities that rapidly adjust to new knowledge, technologies, regulations, and community health challenges.
• Collaborative team approach and spirit, sharing insights and solving problems
• Connected access to information regardless of time, distance or organizational silos.

Learning can be aligned with the organization’s specific patient database.
 
Research across all sectors of the economy validate the many values of robust education and training to an organization. 

• Staff turnover is reduced (Training and an investment in developing a skills building culture dramatically impacts employee retention) 
• Productivity increases 
• Quality is improved 

Healthcare organizations today need to drive performance from every aspect of their IT investments.    Educational technology combined with information technology are tools build a skilled and smarter workforce.   Organization committed to and invested in training yield higher levels of customer and staff satisfaction. 
 
A curriculum of education developed from and for a provider organization focused and based on its digital patient records, also, can address the re-licensure, re-certification, and maintenance of certification requirements of its healthcare professionals.  It can be offered as a highly valued benefit.   This education can be provided on a private provider network available to employees anytime and anywhere.

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