RQI Partners LLC, a joint venture partnership between the American Heart Association and Laerdal Medical focused on delivering innovative resuscitation solutions to dramatically enhance patient outcomes across healthcare systems, is taking another major step in its goal to implement a new standard of resuscitation quality and patient care in U.S. hospitals.
| DALLAS, /PRNewswire/ -- RQI Partners LLC, a joint venture partnership between the American Heart Association and Laerdal Medical focused on delivering innovative resuscitation solutions to dramatically enhance patient outcomes across healthcare systems, is taking another major step in its goal to implement a new standard of resuscitation quality and patient care in U.S. hospitals.
The company announced today it has entered into an agreement with Learnsoft Technology Group (Learnsoft), a national leader in providing organizations with fully-integrated learning solutions through innovative and comprehensive information technology and business-skills training programs, to market and sell the American Heart Association and Laerdal Medical’s co-developed Resuscitation Quality Improvement® program and HeartCode® portfolio of Basic Life Support, Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support and Pediatric Advanced Life Support eLearning programs. Additionally, Learnsoft will provide RQI Partners’ customers access to these programs on Learnsoft’s healthcare-specific CENTERLINE® Learning Management System (LMS). The agreement is effective immediately. Last July, the American Heart Association, the leading voluntary health organization devoted to a world of longer, healthier lives, and Laerdal Medical called for a new standard of care by shifting resuscitation practice away from course training once every two years to verified CPR competency for healthcare professionals provided through the Resuscitation Quality Improvement (RQI®) program. RQI is a self-directed, simulation-based performance, mastery learning and quality improvement program for healthcare professionals that offers “low-dose, high-frequency” hands-on learning sessions that provide vital CPR skills practice in 10 minutes every 90 days. Data is archived in the learning management system, which is used to track and document individual learner performance and competency. “We’re pleased to work with Learnsoft, a company committed to delivering the most comprehensive and effective learning solutions to enhance individual performance and maximize organizational efficiency, to market, sell and provide our customers access to our product portfolio on its LMS platform,” said Clive Patrickson, RQI Partners’ chief executive officer. “This move illustrates RQI Partners’ commitment to an LMS-agnostic environment, as well as extending distribution channels for our product suite. We want to ensure healthcare professionals possess the essential skills to perform high-quality CPR on every patient, every time and are excited to partner with Learnsoft to further the reach of our resuscitation products.” Each year, more than 200,000 adult cardiac arrests occur in U.S. hospitals and less than 26 percent of adult patients survive. High-quality CPR is the primary component that influences survival from cardiac arrest. In January 2019, RQI Partners introduced RQI 2020, a comprehensive, continuous quality improvement program that will deliver higher CPR quality at a lower cost to healthcare systems and professionals. “Learnsoft offers the RQI program through its software-as-a-service (SaaS)-based learning management system,” said Brian Wachsberger, Learnsoft’s chief executive officer. “These products expand Learnsoft’s learning management suite of products with solutions for healthcare organizations to launch, track and report on clinical training and competency management for their workforce.” Currently, there are nearly 400 U.S. hospitals that have implemented the RQI program and more than 300,000 healthcare providers have improved CPR competency since the program’s introduction. For more information about RQI and RQI Partners, visit www.rqipartners.com. About RQI Partners LLC About the American Heart Association About Laerdal Medical About Learnsoft
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