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Live Broadcast Network Launched by HCIN
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May 2008 – HCIN president, Tom Williams,
announced the launch of his company’s live broadcast network following a
successful live video streamed seminar conducted on May 14, 2008 featuring RBC Limited’s Trish Tulloch.
According to Williams, development of HCIN’s live
broadcast capability began early in 2008 and the company already has remote
video broadcast units installed at a number of locations throughout the
U.S. “Home care associations in Texas (Austin) and California (Sacramento)
have installed units to broadcast live to their members and we also have
units installed in five other cities for use by our speakers and business
partners,” Williams said.
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HCIN is 2008 Rich Media Award Finalist
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May 2008 – The Home Care Information
Network (Stony Hill Management) has been selected as one of two finalists
for the 2008 Rich
Media Impact Award in Healthcare. The other finalist is Johns Hopkins
Center for Clinical Global Health Education.
The Rich Media Impact Awards program was created by Sonic Foundry to recognize
excellence in the practical and creative integration of Mediasite
in education, business, health and government. Nominees include
organizations that achieved measurable improvements in information
accessibility, cost savings, efficiency and productivity through use of Mediasite. HCIN’s nomination came in just the company’s second
year of operation. Awards are to be presented at ceremonies in Madison, WI
on May 14, 2008.
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ATA Leadership Interviews Available on HCIN
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April 2008 – The American Telemedicine
Association and the Home Care Information
Network collaborated to broadcast interviews with telemedicine industry leaders
throughout ATA’s 13th Annual
International Meeting & Exposition held in Seattle April 6-8, 2008. More than two
dozen individuals participated in these video streamed sessions, which can
be accessed at ATA’s website.
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HCIN Announces
2007 Results, First Quarter Releases
January
2008 – Home Care Information Network president, Tom Williams, announced in
a January
24 broadcast interview that HCIN’s student
enrollment exceeded 20,000 during 2007. He also disclosed that more than
50% of Medicare-certified home care providers in the U.S. have
registered to view at least one HCIN course over the company’s
state-of-the-art video streaming network since its launch in spring 2006. Williams’ announcement included information on more than 20 new
courses HCIN is introducing during first quarter 2008. These include courses from Fazzi
Associates, RBC Limited, Selman-Holman & Associates, Gilliland & Markette, Five Star Consulting and Dr. Wanda Saed. He also announced new state-specific educational programs
targeting home care and hospice administrators being launched for the Texas Association for Home Care and Associated Home Health Industries of Florida.
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ATA Legislative Advocacy Sessions Streamed
Over HCIN
January
2008 – The American Telemedicine
Association on January 17, 2008 conducted a series of presentations on legislative
advocacy for members of the association’s Board of Directors and Executive
Committee. Organized by Reed Franklin, ATA Senior Director of Public
Policy, the half-day gathering was held in the U.S. Capitol’s Rayburn House Office
Building. The sessions
were captured by HCIN for video streaming to all ATA members beginning in
February. HCIN will be showcasing its web-based remotely hosted educational
system at ATA’s upcoming annual meeting in Seattle, WA,
April 6-8.
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MediaSite Wins National E-Learning Award
December
2007 – Madison WI-based Sonic
Foundry, HCIN’s video streaming technology
partner, announced the company's Mediasite®
webcasting and content management platform was named the Best Tool for
building high impact learning experiences in the Vendor Innovation category
of the Bersin & Associates 2007 Learning
Leaders Program. As
part of the recognition, Mediasite will be
featured in a Bersin & Associates in-depth
report on training best practices, Learning
Leaders 2007: Lessons from the Best, to be published in April. HCIN
utilizes Sonic Foundry’s rich media capture devices to record its seminars
and has co-located servers in Sonic Foundry’s data center to facilitate streaming
content to HCIN viewers. CLICK HERE
to access the complete press release.
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Colorado HCIN Office Opens
December
2007 – The Home Care Information Network has opened an office in Colorado Springs, CO to service clients and seminar
presenters in western states. This office will also serve as the hub for
the company’s live-broadcasting initiative, expected to be launched in
early 2008. According to HCIN president Tom Williams, “We have a small
office set up in the Springs that includes all of the equipment necessary
to capture and broadcast content over the Internet. With the introduction
of live-broadcast capabilities next year, I expect this operation will
expand quickly.” This is the third location at which HCIN has set up video
capture and broadcasting capability. The company has a complete video
production studio in its Fredonia, WI headquarters and the Hospice Education Network has
similar capability in their Centerville,
MA office.
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Hospice Foundation
of America
to Utilize Hospice Education Network
September
2007 – The Hospice Foundation
of America (HFA) announced the development of a strategic alliance with
the Hospice Education Network
(HEN), an innovative, online training resource developed specifically for
hospice programs. In a September
12 press release, David Abrams, HFA’s
President and CEO said, “By collaborating with HEN, we will be able to
provide hospice programs access to our grief and bereavement resources in
streaming video format over the Internet.” To begin their collaboration,
HFA and HEN will offer the hospice industry and other interested
professionals and groups subscription access to HFA’s past annual grief and bereavement
teleconferences. HEN is HCIN’s hospice partner
and utilizes the company’s web-based remotely hosted educational system to
broadcast HFA and HEN video streamed content over the Internet.
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HCIN CEO Featured on
MediaSite User Group Broadcast
September
2007 – HCIN CEO Tom Williams was the featured presenter at the MediaSite User Group meeting that was broadcasted live
over the Internet on September 18. The broadcast originated from Sonic
Foundry’s Madison, WI
headquarters and was hosted by Central
Michigan University,
Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow College of Health Professions. During his
30-minute presentation, Tom reviewed HCInterprise, the remotely
hosted content management system that his company developed. CLICK
HERE to view Tom’s presentation.
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VNAA Announces
Agreement to Broadcast Chronic Care Seminars over HCIN
August
2007 – Recently appointed Visiting Nurse
Associations of America CEO, Andy Carter, announced in an August
13 press release that his organization has entered into a partnership
agreement with HCIN to produce and stream seminars for the VNAA’s Chronic
Care Clearinghouse. “The goal of this collaboration between VNAA and HCIN is to bring value
to member agencies,” Carter stated. “The partnership allows VNAA to expand
our ability to provide members with convenient, state of the art
educational content on clinical, regulatory, administrative and business
developments at minimal expense.” The CCC is a grant-supported educational venture
offering clinical education in caring for persons with Diabetes, Congestive
Heart Failure and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. It is funded by
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), LANTUS, an insulin drug
provided by Sanofi Aventis, and the American
Heart Association (AHA). CLICK
HERE to view a brief video presentation from Andy Carter addressing the
HCIN partnership.
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Weatherbee
Resources Launches Hospice Education Network
July
2007 – Heather Wilson, PhD, president of MA-based Weatherbee
Resources announced her company’s launch of the Hospice Education Network on July
30. Utilizing HCIN’s state-of-the-art video
streaming capabilities and remotely hosted software, HEN will offer courses
for both hospice staff and volunteers. Wilson said the HEN will open its doors
with 50 courses from leading hospice experts already recorded and that
additional content was already in development. Weatherbee is
the hospice industry’s leading consulting company and is widely known for
its regulatory compliance educational products and training programs.
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HCIN Broadcasts
State Association Annual Meetings
June
2007 – HCIN Marketing and Sales Director Randy Weisheit announced that his
company has just completed recording of more than 30 presentations made at
state association annual meetings in FL, CA and OR, and that he expected
broadcasts of these sessions to members will begin during July. “All three
of these associations are HCIN partners and they are hoping that
broadcasting these seminars over the Internet will increase members’
comfort level with video streamed education,” Weisheit said. Agencies that
attended these association conferences will be given a free 60-day viewing
period and will be able to extend this for a nominal fee. Agencies that did
not attend can purchase the seminars from their association. Weisheit
expects additional associations will take advantage of this opportunity in
2008. For more information Randy can be contacted at randyweisheit@stony-hill.com.
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Mays Home Health
Featured in Home Care Automation Report
February
2007 – Antlers OK-based Mays Housecall Home Health, was featured in a February
17 Home Care Automation Report article discussing HCIN’s
first implementation of its enterprise solution for large multi-site providers.
HCIN installed a MediaSite ML440 recorder and
related video and audio equipment needed by Mays to develop their own video
streamed training programs for the agency’s +500 staff. Once fully
operational, in-house content will be integrated with courses purchased
from HCIN to offer a comprehensive training program to staff at May’s 30
office locations in OK and TX.
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