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Harvard Business Publishing Partners with HealthStream to Offer Premier Learning Solution to Enhance Leadership & Management Sk

^{Published on 2010-12-01 16:06:04 - Market Wire}
 

NASHVILLE, Tenn.--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--HealthStream, Inc. (NASDAQ: HSTM), a leading provider of learning and research solutions for the healthcare industry, announced today that it has partnered with Harvard Business Publishing to offer the Harvard ManageMentor, a premier leadership and management skills online learning resource, to its healthcare organization customers. The new online resource offers a highly effective learning solution to enhance hospital managersa™ day-to-day performance and, in turn, drive improved outcomes for the organization.

"One of our primary objectives has always been to provide actionable information to healthcare leaders through our wide array of research products and services"

As an online learning resource, Harvard ManageMentor features more than 200 interactive online learning activities and more than 350 video segmentsa"with audio downloads for mobile devices. Healthcare managers are provided with a wide range of relevant learning activities, tools, worksheets, and step-by-step guides that cover the full gamut of management responsibilities. More than 40 modules cover an array of management skillsa"from running a meeting to strategy development to finance essentials. Online bookmarks let users quickly revisit specific sections for future reference.

aWe are excited to offer Harvard ManageMentor through HealthStream, the nationa™s largest healthcare learning network,a said Rich Gravelin, associate director, Harvard Business Publishing. aOur mission at Harvard Business Publishing is to improve the practice of management and its impact in a changing world. Our partnership with HealthStream provides the ideal entr©e to acute-care hospitals to support this mission with our premier online resource for management essentials.a

While effective leadership is important in every industry, it is absolutely critical in healthcare. Today, healthcare organizations are expected to achieve excellence while under close public and regulatory scrutiny. Patient safety, clinical outcomes, market share, profitability levels, cost containment, employee retention, and patient volume are all concerns that leaders of healthcare organizations face on a continuous basis. Moreover, for physicians, a hospital administrationa™s ability to manage the hospital is ranked as the single most important factor influencing their overall satisfaction with the hospital (HealthStream Research, Physician Survey Data). Taken together, these factors heighten the need and urgency for effective leadership and management skills training in healthcare organizations.

aOne of our primary objectives has always been to provide actionable information to healthcare leaders through our wide array of research products and services,a said J. Edward Pearson, president, HealthStream Research. aWe are increasingly offering not only actionable information, but also product-based actions that can deliver high impact and improved outcomes in healthcare organizations. I believe that our strong partner networka"that now includes Harvard Business Publishinga"further marks HealthStream as the ago-toa source for healthcare leaders to gain insight and take action in their organizations to affect positive improvements.a

To learn more about the Harvard ManageMentor resource described in this press release, call 800-473-1771.

About HealthStream

HealthStream (NASDAQ: HSTM) is a leading provider of learning and research solutions for the healthcare industry, transforming insight into action to deliver outcomes-based results for healthcare organizations. Through HealthStreama™s learning solutionsa"which have been contracted by approximately 2.4 million hospital-based healthcare professionalsa"healthcare organizations create safer environments for patients, increase clinical competencies of their workforces, and facilitate the rapid transfer of the latest knowledge and technologies. Through our research products, executives from healthcare organizations gain valuable insight about patientsa™ experiences, workforce challenges, physician relations, and community perceptions of their services. Based in Nashville, Tennessee, HealthStream has two satellite offices. For more information about HealthStreama™s learning and research solutions, visit [ www.healthstream.com ] or call us at 800-933-9293.

This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties regarding HealthStream.Investors are cautioned that such results or events predicted in these statements may differ materially from actual future events or results. This information has been, or in the future may be, included in reliance on the asafe harbora provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Investors are cautioned that such results or events predicted in these statements may differ materially from actual future events or results.The Companya™s preliminary financial results, while presented with numerical specificity, are forward-looking statements which are based on a variety of assumptions regarding the Companya™s operating performance that may not be realized, and which are subject to significant uncertainties and potential contingencies associated with the Companya™s financial and accounting procedures and other matters referenced from time to time in the Companya™s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Consequently, such forward-looking information should not be regarded as a representation or warranty by the Company that such projections will be realized.

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