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Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre rolls out Nursing Portal with Medworxx Learning Management System
TORONTO, Dec. 15 /CNW/ - Medworxx, the makers of a strategic software platform that hospitals use...
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\nTORONTO, Dec. 15 /CNW/ - Medworxx, the makers of a strategic software\nplatform that hospitals use to communicate, aggregate, and analyze knowledge,\nis pleased to announce that Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (Sunnybrook) has\nadopted the Medworxx Learning Management System for its Nursing Portal. The\nMedworxx Learning Management System (LMS) will be the eLearning platform to\nsupport mandatory education including Ministry of Health mandated infection\ncontrol and other relevant content.\n\n\n"When nurses are excited about eLearning and look forward to the next\nsession, I know that our LMS and our leaders that bring nursing education\nonline are doing its part to help Sunnybrook invent the future of healthcare",\nsaid Shalimar Santos-Comia, Director of Nursing Education & eLearning,\nSunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. "Our nurses can check their own transcripts\nto better manage their education and learning plans. This gives our nurses\ncontrol over their own learning path through a system that's available around\nthe clock. It really has taken the nurses out of the classroom and has brought\nthe classroom to the nurses." Ricky Chadha, eLearning Lead, Sunnybrook Health\nSciences Centre notes, "We rolled out the nursing portal during Nursing Week\nto speed adoption of the new system. Sunnybrook has 2500 nurses accessing the\nMedworxx LMS for courses ranging from Blood Transfusion Practice to WHMIS\nTraining."\n\n\nThe integration of LMS with Active Directory, ease of use and ease of\nrolling out the application were other key factors in Sunnybrook's decision to\nadopt this application.\n\n\n"We are thrilled to add a respected hospital like Sunnybrook Health\nSciences Centre to our family of customers", said Dan Matlow, President & CEO,\nMedworxx. "The Medworxx Learning Management System has been successfully\ndeployed at hospitals throughout Canada and the US; it is a testament to the\ntechnology and our people that Sunnybrook has chosen to replace their previous\nLMS with Medworxx."\n\n\nAbout Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre\n\n\nSunnybrook Health Sciences Centre is inventing the future of health care\nfor the one million patients the hospital cares for each year through the\ndedication of its more than 10,000 staff and volunteers. An internationally\nrecog...