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Phoenix Health Systems and Health Professor, Inc. Launch HealthcareEDU, a Comprehensive e-Learning Solution for HIPAA Training

Montgomery Village, MD – April 28, 2003 -- Phoenix Health Systems and Health Professor Inc., today announced HealthcareEdu, a joint Internet-based venture that offers comprehensive e-learning programs enabling healthcare organizations to comply with HIPAA privacy and security training requirements. Phoenix is a nationally recognized healthcare information management consulting and outsourcing firm, and publisher of such HIPAA educational tools as HIPAAlert, HIPAAlive, HIPAAnotes and HIPAAdvisory.com (“the HIPAA hub of the Web”). Health Professor, Inc. is a leading provider of e-learning systems for the healthcare industry.

HealthcareEdu’s premier offering is HIPAAedu, an in-depth HIPAA Privacy training solution which enables staff of organizations, large and small, to easily access, track, and complete their HIPAA training requirements at any time or location. Customers accessing the on-line courses at HealthcareEDU.org will benefit from a full suite of highly interactive and engaging courses – covering basic Privacy concepts through the essential details of their organization’s Privacy policies -- to ensure necessary understanding of their responsibilities under HIPAA and to improve their job performance. HealthcareEdu’s curriculum is the result of extensive planning, exacting research, and state-of-the-art online training design by Phoenix’ and Health Professor’s expert HIPAA training staffs. The HIPAA regulations, signed into law in 1996, require healthcare organizations that handle personal health information to train their workforces on new privacy rules and organizational policies or face substantial fines.

“ Our partnership with Phoenix Health Systems and its HIPAA services will provide a uniquely authoritative new e-learning solution to the healthcare community. The partnership also enables us to expand into a broader compliance training market with Phoenix’ knowledge expertise. We are pleased Phoenix Healthcare Systems chose our leading edge technology and approach for its clients,” said Clifton R. Gaus, ScD., Health Professor’s President.

“ Phoenix is very impressed with Health Professor’s commitment to quality healthcare industry education,” said D’Arcy Guerin Gue, Executive Vice President of Phoenix Health Systems. “Now that the Privacy Rule compliance date has been reached, it is critical that healthcare organizations comply with both the initial and ongoing training requirements spelled out by the federal government. This partnership enables organizations to comply with HIPAA requirements with the highest quality courseware and e-learning technology. We evaluated a wide range of solutions and chose Health Professor because it is the most scalable, comprehensive offering on the market, and we're confident it can meet the demands of such a large audience.”

About Phoenix Health Systems

Phoenix Health Systems is a nationally recognized specialist in healthcare information systems enterprise assessment, strategic planning, management and related professional consulting services. Their HIPAA related services lead the industry in visibility, respect and utility.

About Health Professor, Inc.

Health Professor is the leading provider of comprehensive e-learning, training, testing and tracking solutions that enable healthcare organizations to comply with the Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act (HIPAA).

For more information, call toll free (866) EDU-2003 (866-338-2003) or e-mail sales@HealthcareEDU.org or visit http://www.HealthcareEDU.org/.

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