MC Strategies and MedAssets HSCA Sign Agreement to Provide Improved Training and Save Money for Member Clients

MC Strategies, Inc. and MedAssets HSCA have signed an agreement to provide MedAssets HSCAs member facilities with online management training solutions. The WebInservice® e-learning courses will be delivered by MC Strategies Knowledge Deployment System® (KDS), the most comprehensive learning management system in the healthcare industry.

Atlanta, GA, (PRWEB) December 18, 2003 --MC Strategies, Inc. and MedAssets HSCA have signed an agreement to provide MedAssets HSCAs member facilities with online management training solutions. The WebInservice® e-learning courses will be delivered by MC Strategies Knowledge Deployment System® (KDS), the most comprehensive learning management system in the healthcare industry.

MedAssets HSCA is the third largest group purchasing organization in the country, serving more than 17,000 healthcare providers nationwide with over $7 billion in gross purchasing throughput. The supply chain and contract services company focuses on maximizing the financial performance of healthcare institutions.

This partnership will allow MedAssets HSCA to meet the unique training requirements of its surgery and ambulatory based members. Under the agreement, MedAssets HSCA members will be able to roll out their own strategic training initiatives that will enhance their employees professional growth and help them retain and recruit employees.

True to MedAssets HSCAs ongoing mission, the Internet-based WebInservice courseware, delivered by the Knowledge Deployment System, will reduce the cost of staff training for MedAssets HSCAs clients. It will also improve the revenue cycle process by better educating staff members and providing compliance and competency assessments. Additionally, MedAssets HSCA clients will have access to the training content of other MC Strategies partners, such as AHIMA, HFMA AHA and HIMSS.

This agreement will allow us to continue to maximize the financial performance of our clients," said Gary Johnson, Vice President for Marketing and Marketing Services. We provide many tools and services to help our clients perform better financially, but we were lacking an educational tool. Our partnership with MC Strategies fills that void," Mr. Johnson added.

MC Strategies is pleased to be a part of MedAssets solutions for improving the financial performance of Americas healthcare providers," said Michael Kaminaka, Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing for MC Strategies. We have been providing e-learning content and delivery systems for several years and we are gratified to be able to use our experience to help MedAssets accomplish its mission," Mr. Kaminaka continued.

About MedAssets HSCA
MedAssets HSCA, headquartered in St. Louis, MO, is the third largest group purchasing organization in the country, serving more than 17,000 healthcare providers nationwide with purchasing power over $7 billion in gross throughput. It is MedAssets HSCA's mission to be the market-leading, customer-oriented supply chain and contract services company, focused on maximizing the financial performance of healthcare institutions. MedAssets HSCA's parent company, MedAssets of Atlanta, GA, recently acquired OSI Systems, a leading revenue cycle management company for healthcare providers, enabling cash flow improvement from both revenue and supply cost improvement. For more information about MedAssets HSCA, or its parent company MedAssets Inc., go to www.medassets.com, or contact Gary Johnson, Vice President for Marketing and Marketing Services, 100 North Point Center East, Suite 150, Alpharetta, GA 30022, e-mail: gjohnson@medassets.com.

About MC Strategies, Inc.
MC Strategies, Inc., headquartered in Atlanta, GA, is the most experienced firm in developing and maintaining Web-based training content for the healthcare industry. The companys WebInservice division is a pioneer in providing Web-based learning solutions and has a client base that includes some of the countrys largest integrated delivery networks, over 1,200 hospitals and approximately 100 colleges and universities. For more information, visit www.mcstrategies.com or www.webinservice.com or call 800-999-6274.

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