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HealthStream Launches RepDirect™ in Partnership with AdvaMed and AORN to Provide Healthcare Industry Representatives a Certification Program for Achieving Compliance to Access Care Environments
For healthcare industry representatives, the most highly valued courses for learning industry standards—AdvaMed’s Code of Ethics and AORN’s OR Protocol—are
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nFor healthcare industry representatives, the most highly valued courses for learning industry standards—AdvaMed’s Code of Ethics and AORN’s OR Protocol—are now exclusively available with RepDirect\n\n NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nHealthStream (NASDAQ: HSTM), a leading provider of workforce and provider solutions for the healthcare industry, today announced the launch of RepDirect™, a new online certification program for healthcare industry representatives to demonstrate their knowledge and competency of safe, ethical, and compliant practices within care environments. RepDirect is comprised of the Advanced Medical Technology Association’s (“AdvaMed’s”) Code of Ethics on Interactions with Health Care Professionals (“Code of Ethics”); the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses’s (AORN) OR Protocol®; and HealthStream’s award-winning safety courseware library. Each of these three training components is available to healthcare industry representatives exclusively from RepDirect by HealthStream at www.repdirect.com.\n\n\nApproximately 500,000+ healthcare industry representatives working in medical technology companies in the U.S. must be annually credentialed to enter a hospital and other care settings. Standards from the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) set forth the components of the credential, including training requirements related to safety, compliance, and ethics—which includes training for operating room protocol as per AORN’s guidelines and an industry code of ethics, such as AdvaMed’s Code. Hospitals’ compliance managers want to ensure that the industry representatives entering their facility are well trained, ensuring an optimal, safe environment for providers and patients. Upon the successful completion of RepDirect’s industry-leading courses, a certificate is granted to the industry representative. The certificate is accepted by healthcare providers as evidence of industry representatives’ knowledge and competence of safe and ethical practices in the care environment.\n\n\n“OR Protocol not only provides credentialing, it also ensures industry representatives are current on best practices for patient safety,” said AORN’s CEO/Executive Director, Linda Groah, MSN, RN, CNOR, NEA-BC, FAAN. “OR directors, who are responsible for ensuring everyone in the surgical suite understands best clinical pract...