A screenshot from the Adult resuscitation e-learning course

This crucial piece of work will provide training for the vital healthcare professionals who are facing COVID-19 on the frontline and will benefit the patients who are under their care. In uncertain and trying times such as these, work like this will help make a difference.

LONDON (PRWEB)
May 19, 2020

In a period of global disruption, teams at Learning Technologies Group (LTG) have been fortunate enough to have the opportunity to assist with the UK’s coronavirus response in a small but meaningful way. LTG has provided a program of support including a free six-month, 100,000+ user license for Instilled by PeopleFluent—the new Learning Experience Platform (LXP) launched last year—to long-term LEO Learning client Resuscitation Council UK (RCUK).

In March 2020, RCUK was approached by a key member of the Resuscitation Department at the Nightingale Hospital at ExCeL London with a request to provide learning content for the wave of returning clinicians that were mobilized as part of the UK government’s coronavirus response. With LEO Learning supporting RCUK across multiple learning initiatives since November 2010, the organization contacted LEO on Wednesday 25 March with these urgent requirements.

With the first of the Nightingale Hospitals due to be opened the following week, RCUK needed to be able to launch eLearning content that was fully fit for purpose by the morning of Monday 30 March. Staff from RCUK, LEO Learning, Gomo and Instilled all came together over the weekend and across global time zones in order to make this a reality.

Instilled was quickly identified by the LTG team as a key component in addressing some specific challenges RCUK was facing, including:

• Ease of use for all users, including returning healthcare workers who aren’t familiar with modern digital learning platforms.
• Support for self-service login.
• Overall flexibility to allow a wide range of media types.
• Dynamic scalability to grow in line with the demand for more returning clinicians.

The five-module ‘adult resuscitation eLearning’ course was adapted from existing RCUK course material and adjusted specifically for an audience of former professional clinicians returning to deal with patients affected by COVID-19. Built utilizing the cloud-based eLearning authoring tool Gomo, all content is mobile-responsive and allows downloads of key charts—including a specific algorithm for COVID-19 life support application—ensuring that key information can be referenced in the field.

“Everyone at LEO Learning and our sister companies at LTG is proud to be even a small part of the response to the current medical effort,” said LEO’s Managing Director, James Greenwood. “While we sincerely hope that this life-saving training will be required as rarely as can be wished for, we’re grateful for the opportunity to provide it in a way that will help those saving lives get back to work with a minimum of fuss.”

“We are incredibly grateful to the team at LEO who assisted Resuscitation Council UK to set up a Learning Experience Platform (LXP) to host and deliver a bespoke course, ‘Adult resuscitation e-learning’, for the NHS in under 72 hours,” said Dr James Cant, CEO of Resuscitation Council UK. “This crucial piece of work will provide training for the vital healthcare professionals who are facing COVID-19 on the frontline and will benefit the patients who are under their care. In uncertain and trying times such as these, work like this will help make a difference.”

For more information on the project, check out this case study.

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About LEO Learning

LEO Learning believes that technology-enabled learning innovation has the power to deliver transformational results. Our purpose is to help clients deploy learning technology to deliver outcomes precisely aligned to their business goals. Backed by more than 30 years of experience, we design engaging learning architectures that fit seamlessly into businesses and improve performance throughout the entire organization.

LEO Learning has the deep understanding of learning design and technology, and pioneering creative approach, necessary to drive learning transformation.

LEO Learning’s expanding global customer base includes organizations such as the NHS, Civil Service Learning, Jaguar Land Rover, Visa, Volvo, Suncorp, Fidelity, Virgin Atlantic, Novartis, Godiva, Volkswagen, Dunhill, KPMG, Roche, and Mars.

LEO Learning is part of Learning Technologies Group plc’s award-winning group of specialist learning technology businesses.

For more, visit leolearning.com.

About Instilled by PeopleFluent

Instilled is an easy-to-use, structured corporate learning experience platform (LXP) that supports a modern learning culture. Part of PeopleFluent’s talent management and learning products, the platform leads learners to the right content— created by subject matter experts and peer groups—without distractions. Instilled draws on nearly 20 years of experience providing learning consulting and technologies for authoring, delivery, and analytics.

Instilled combines award-winning technologies within Learning Technologies Group into one efficient learning experience platform.

For more, visit instilled.com.

About Gomo

The Gomo learning suite provides multi-award-winning products that allow you to create, deliver, update, and track beautiful multi-device eLearning. With Gomo Authoring, you can create truly responsive and adaptive HTML5 content that looks perfect on all devices, including desktops, tablets, and smartphones. With Gomo Delivery and Analytics, you can get content into the hands of learners instantly via websites, direct link, the Gomo LMS wrapper, social media, and more—all with full xAPI analytics.

With an ever-growing client base including the BBC, British Airways, BT, Centrica, General Electric, HSBC, L’Oréal, Royal Mail Group, Shell, Sony, Squarespace, TDK, Vodafone, Weetabix, Whatsapp, the World Health Organization and many more, Gomo is quickly becoming the established choice for global organizations seeking collaborative, future-proof and responsive HTML5 multi-device eLearning.

Gomo is part of Learning Technologies Group plc’s award-winning group of specialist learning technology businesses.

For more, visit gomolearning.com.

About Resuscitation Council UK

Resuscitation Council UK is saving lives by developing guidelines, influencing policy, delivering courses and supporting cutting-edge research. Through education, training and research, we’re working towards the day when everyone in the country has the skills they need to save a life.

“We’ve been very pleased with our investment in Gaggle, which is basically like having your own personal ‘911’ system specifically for your district,” said Dr. Melissa Williams-Scott, executive director of information systems, Dickinson Independent School District, Texas.

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (PRWEB)
May 19, 2020

All educators would agree that it’s vital to protect students both physically and digitally, but how do they measure the return on their safety investments? In its latest report, Investing in Student Safety: The Costs, the Benefits, and the ROI, Gaggle helps readers consider the financial, logistical, and legal aspects of a comprehensive student safety plan.

The report examines the logistics involved in addressing external and internal threats to student well-being, from developing a comprehensive safety plan, including implementing district cybersecurity, to cultivating positive school climates and cultures. It also discusses the costs associated with safety plans and the state funding options that are currently available.

“Even fostering positive school climates and cultures can pay off significantly,” said Gaggle founder and CEO Jeff Patterson. “School districts nationwide are seeing a rise in expensive lawsuits resulting from bullying incidents. An estimated 160,000 children miss school on any given day due to fear of bullying by other students. Plus, researchers at Columbia University have determined that schools see an $11 return on investment for every dollar spent on social and emotional learning programs.”

In its final section, Investing in Student Safety explores the subject of mitigating risks to student safety with school safety solutions. The section covers how such measures can provide legal protection for a district, takes a close look at student privacy rights and compliance with federal regulations, and dives into state legislative changes designed to address mental health challenges.

“Prudent districts are addressing school safety by attempting to be in front of any incidents that may cause harm to the students. If school districts don’t proactively support students, there is a greater potential for liability lawsuits,” stated Superintendent Dr. Tammy Campbell of Federal Way School District in Washington. “It puts a structure in place that emphasizes what to do when a notification of a student who is potentially in distress is received by the Gaggle student safety platform. These efforts reduce not only the opportunities for students to follow through on threats, but also the risks to the district when a student is harmed.”

Of course, the greatest return on investment is the student lives saved as a result of school safety solutions. “We can’t quantify that because you can’t put a value on human life,” Patterson continued. “But we can say that having a high level of confidence that students feel safe and secure enough to be able to thrive academically and socially in their schools is well worth the investment.”

“We’ve been very pleased with our investment in Gaggle, which is basically like having your own personal ‘911’ system specifically for your district,” said Dr. Melissa Williams-Scott, executive director of information systems, Dickinson Independent School District, Texas.

Investing in Student Safety: The Costs, the Benefits, and the ROI can be downloaded at https://news.gaggle.net/investing-in-student-safety.

About Gaggle|http://www.gaggle.net

Since 1999, Gaggle has been the leader in helping K-12 districts manage student safety on school-provided technology. Using a powerful combination of artificial intelligence and trained safety experts, the safety solution proactively assists districts 24/7/365 in the prevention of student suicide, bullying, inappropriate behaviors, school violence, and other harmful situations. Most importantly, Gaggle continues to help hundreds of districts avoid tragedies and save lives, while also protecting their liability. Thus far in the 2019-20 academic year, Gaggle has helped districts save the lives of more than 830 students who were planning or actually attempting suicide. For more information, visit http://www.gaggle.net and follow Gaggle on Twitter at @Gaggle_K12.

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Our tremendous growth is a reflection of our customer-obsessed culture. We are thankful to the American Business Awards for recognizing this, as well as to our customers for continually depending on us to manage their most sensitive healthcare workloads.

SEATTLE (PRWEB)
May 19, 2020

Cloudticity was named the winner of a Bronze Stevie® Award in the Customer Satisfaction category in The 18th Annual American Business Awards® today.

The American Business Awards are the U.S.A.’s premier business awards program. All organizations operating in the U.S.A. are eligible to submit nominations – public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small. 

Nicknamed the Stevies for the Greek word meaning “crowned,” the awards will be virtually presented to winners during a live event on Wednesday, August 5. Tickets for the virtual event are now on sale.

More than 3,600 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted this year for consideration in a wide range of categories. Cloudticity was nominated in the Customer Satisfaction category for healthcare technology companies.

“Here at Cloudticity, our tremendous growth is a reflection of our customer-obsessed culture,” says Gerry Miller, Founder & CEO at Cloudticity. “We are thankful to the American Business Awards for recognizing this, as well as to our customers for continually depending on us to manage their most sensitive healthcare workloads.”

Cloudticity provides managed cloud services for healthcare IT as well as healthcare data solutions for public health. Cloudticity is being recognized for it’s quick and agile response times, which far exceed industry standards for managed service providers (MSPs). Responding to 90% of customer queries within the first 30 minutes, Cloudticity enables high fidelity IT development and operations.

Unlike traditional MSPs, which often become bottlenecks to client IT operations, Cloudticity’s extreme automation and real-time customer support allows customers to move fast. So healthcare IT can focus on what it does best: developing and deploying innovative healthcare solutions that radically reshape the healthcare system.

The judges noted that Cloudticity’s real-time communication with clients via Slack, as well as innovative use of automation to deliver managed services, demonstrates dedication to client success as well as quality of service.

More than 230 professionals worldwide participated in the judging process to select this year’s Stevie Award winners.

“Despite the toughest business conditions in memory, American organizations continue to demonstrate their commitment to innovation, creativity, and bottom-line results,” said Stevie Awards president Maggie Gallagher. “This year’s Stevie-winning nominations are full of inspiring stories of persistence, ingenuity, resourcefulness, and compassion. We celebrate all of their stories and look forward to showcasing them during our virtual awards ceremony on August 5.”

Details about The American Business Awards and the list of 2020 Stevie winners are available at http://www.StevieAwards.com/ABA.    

About Cloudticity

Cloudticity helps healthcare organizations radically reshape healthcare by unlocking the full potential of the cloud. From helping healthcare IT accelerate innovation through managed cloud solutions to enabling public health agents to improve real-time public health surveillance, Cloudticity next-gen solutions unleash innovation and disruption across healthcare.

About the Stevie Awards: Stevie Awards are conferred in eight programs: the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, the German Stevie Awards, the Middle East Stevie Awards, The American Business Awards®, The International Business Awards®, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, the Stevie Awards for Great Employers, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Stevie Awards competitions receive more than 12,000 entries each year from organizations in more than 70 nations. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at http://www.StevieAwards.com.

Sponsors of The 2020 American Business Awards include John Hancock Financial Services, Melissa Sones Consulting, and SoftPro.

For more information on Cloudticity, contact Kate Z. Wang, kate.wang@cloudticity.com.

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STUTTGART, Germany (PRWEB)
May 19, 2020

DiaWater was founded by entrepreneur, author, speaker, researcher, and developer, Arthur Tränkle. For multiple decades, Arthur has worked, researched, and experimented with the different ways in which the frequencies, energies, and vibrations found in the world around us affects the human cells. His intense rigor has led him to further explore the areas of water revitalization and hydration, and ultimately, DiaWater.

While there are brands out there that offer quality alkaline water, DiaWater is the first brand that provides permanent hexagonal deuterium reduced water with extra oxygen, which is a space industry technology. Thanks to their patented production process, they are the only supplier of permanent hexagonal deuterium reduced water that can offer it for affordable prices. Without this process, it cost up to 200 USD to produce 1 Liter of deuterium reduced water. Similar extremely high-level pure water can be found only in two places in nature: Lourdes in France and Hunza in Pakistan.

With the technology behind the DiaWater production process, they are the first in the world who created the hexagonal structure that disintegrated after one year at room temperature, unlike the hexagonal structure of natural water that disintegrates naturally after only two days. Also, DiaWater’s quality exceeds the quality of the waters found in Hunza by bringing deuterium levels down to 85ppm, while the Hunza’s water exists at 120ppm.

DiaWater is considered hexagonal deuterium reduced water. In other words, DiaWater is structured, magnetized water. This means that strong magnetic forces have impacted the molecules that make up each drop of water, consequently reducing their size and rearranging its structure into a hexagonal cluster. Hexagonal water molecules are virtually exact copies of water molecules that haven’t been contaminated with some sort of human process. In addition to its contamination-free level of purity, hexagonal water molecules actually contain a higher rate of penetration into human cells, while being able to carry much more oxygen than the typical drinking water.

To prove the effects of DiaWater, they have carried out a medical study. Also, hundreds of studies have been done on Hunza water over the last decades. It was back in the 1960s that Dr. Flanagan researched the ‘Hunza water’ or ‘live water’ (glacial water from the mountainous regions of North Pakistan). It was noted that it had special properties such as lower freezing point and lower surface tension. Research also concluded that the water was very similar to the one surrounding human cells which leads to better cellular hydration and improved nutrient absorption. Deuterium depleted water was also used to prepare Soviet cosmonauts for the extreme and hostile conditions of being onboard a spacecraft.

DiaWater is the purest man-made water available in the world today – nearly as pure as the water molecules that undergo magnetization right in the heart of Antarctica, just above the Earth’s natural pole. Thanks to DiaWater, consumers can reap the benefits of advanced hydration designed to mimic the exact effects that nature’s coldest environments have on water molecules to bring forth a new type of hydration that protects the body from many different issues.

The production process of DiaWater relies on the use of advanced magnetization technology designed to remove hydrogen and deuterium from the water molecules and substituting these elements with rich and pure oxygen. They take pure, naturally structured living water and separate the deuterium rich and deuterium poor molecules from one other through an artificial process that mimics the natural processes of evaporation, condensation, and rain.

DiaWater is being produced under a scientific and precisely calculated process that takes into account time, temperature, pressure, humidity, and room specifications, where they heat the contained water to produce water vapors that rise to the top of the space and rain down from above. This process is always ongoing and virtually permanent.

From there, they are able to acquire an exchange of different water molecule isotopes, which allows them to physically extract the hydrogen atom from each isotope, effectively separating heavy (deuterium rich) and light (deuterium poor) water molecules. From there, they are able to rearrange the deuterium poor water molecules to ensure that they remain separated from the heavy, hydrogen-rich molecules.

The production of DiaWater will start once the crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo is over. The delivery of DiaWater to backers that support this campaign will start at the end of August, while the official market entry will be at the end of October. Besides having the opportunity to purchase DiaWater at least 8 weeks before all other, backers will also benefit from the discounts they are offered while the campaign lasts. Depending on the package they select, backers can get a discount that varies from 25% to 33% of the final price of the package.

Pure hexagonal deuterium reduced water like DiaWater can be drunk as often as consumers like. However, for best results, it is recommended to drink 1 liter of DiaWater per day as follows: 250 ml on an empty stomach after getting up, 250 ml 30 minutes before lunch, 250 ml 30 minutes before dinner, 250 ml before going to bed. DiaWater is totally safe and cannot cause any harm to anyone. It doesn’t contain any chemicals or toxins and neither are any chemicals used during the process of deuterium depletion.

Although DiaWater can be mixed with different powders to make shakes, doing so it’s not recommended. For now, no studies have been conducted to show if mixing DiaWater with external substances will reduce its effects. For this reason, consumers are advised to consume DiaWater pure.

Thanks to tremendous innovation and advancement in technology, DiaWater offers the world’s first hexagonal deuterium reduced water that matches the un-contaminated purity only found in water molecules beneath the massive ice sheets of Antarctica.

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The outbreak and rapid spread of the coronavirus pandemic has made normal Medicare enrollment significantly more difficult in some areas of the country,” Rich says

CLEARWATER, Fla. (PRWEB)
May 19, 2020

With the pandemic dictating how the country operates and moves forward, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) declared that All 50 states, the District of Columbia, and four territories have been approved for major disaster declarations to assist with additional needs identified under the nationwide emergency declaration for COVID-19.(1) In response, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have recently granted a special enrollment period (SEP) for Medicare beneficiaries who were unable to enroll during the normal election period due to the coronavirus crisis. “The outbreak and rapid spread of the coronavirus pandemic has made normal Medicare enrollment significantly more difficult in some areas of the country,” says Dave Rich, CEO of Ensurem LLC— a growing online multi-carrier insurance brokerage. “We need to reach out to seniors living in affected areas and make sure they understand the SEP.”

As stated by the CMS, the SEP is available from the start of the incident period—which is defined as the effective date of the President’s initial emergency declaration on March 1—and for four full calendar months after (through the end of June).(2)

According to Ensurem, here are some key points regarding this policy:

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  This SEP is available nationwide to residents of all states, tribes, territories, and the District of Columbia effective March 1, 2020.*
• This declaration does not mean that all Medicare beneficiaries get an SEP. To be eligible, beneficiaries must meet certain criteria. All other rules apply.
• For those who qualify, the SEP opportunity will run through June 30, 2020.

*Note: Beneficiaries will not be expected to provide proof that they were affected by the pandemic-related emergency

What does this mean for beneficiaries?

• Beneficiaries who were eligible for a different election period but were unable to enroll* in a plan during the allotted time period have until June 30, 2020, to enroll.
• Enrollments received are effective the first day of the following month.

*Note: This applies to anyone that could have used the MA-OEP SEP but did not

Rich, whose company specializes in the Medicare market, notes that navigating the vast array of coverage options and making the best decision can be daunting—nonetheless doing so amidst a pandemic. Ensurem’s goal is to facilitate the exchange of information between the rapidly growing U.S. senior population and the healthcare industry via innovative, user-friendly technology.

“The COVID-19 pandemic makes this a unique time in our history, becoming more concerning—and even frightening—for seniors every day,” Rich says.

This is a rapidly developing situation that could see changes at any time, so it is imperative for those who may be affected by this policy get the most up-to-date information possible. Ensurem’s contact center, which logs over 2,000 calls per day, is standing by to handle calls from seniors in question as to whether they are affected by these extended deadlines. The contact center has access to those FEMA-designated areas that have been impacted across the nation and is available to answer general questions pertaining to coverage options. The contact center is open Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET at (800) 729-5109 (TTY: 800-631-3750.)

“We cannot assume that seniors will focus on the various enrollment extensions available, or even understand them,” Rich says. “It’s critical that we communicate this to our seniors right now; up-to-date information is available through the Ensurem contact center.

About Ensurem

Ensurem, headquartered in Clearwater, FL, is a leading technology and product distribution company serving carriers and consumers within the massive U.S. senior market. The company provides end-to-end solutions for carriers, including product development, digital marketing, and consumer-centric front ends and back end. For more information, visit http://www.ensurem.com.

1. “COVID-19 Disaster Declarations.” COVID-19 Disaster Declarations | FEMA.gov, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), fema.gov/coronavirus/disaster-declarations.

2. MacDonald, Ilene. “CMS Clarifies Actual Dates of Special Enrollment Period Due to COVID-19.” RISE, 11 May 2020, risehealth.org/insights-articles/revenue-quality/cms-clarifies-actual-dates-of-special-enrollment-period-due-to-covid-19/.

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