CMHC Systems Partners with CCI to Provide Customers With e-Learning.

Business Editors, Health/Medical Writers

DUBLIN, Ohio--(BW HealthWire)--May 9, 2001

CMHC Systems, a leading provider of information technology for healthcare and human services organizations and an active force in a nationwide HIPAA awareness campaign, is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with Conundrum Communications, Inc. (CCI) to provide customers with increased opportunities for web-based learning and training resources.

Conundrum Communications, Inc. develops web-based software that supports learning management and provides training outsourcing services for the creation and administration of electronic courses. Together, CMHC Systems and CCI will produce and distribute training and continuing education software and related services.

In an ongoing effort to remain on the cutting edge of technology, CMHC Systems recognizes the industry demand for better, faster, and more intense staff training. With technological progress comes the need for staff trained on new technologies and armed with the skills to help customers treat clients. In order to combat the ever rising cost of training while ensuring quality education for employees and maintaining high standards of performance, CMHC Systems has teamed up with CCI, already possessing the technology, content, and experience to serve the behavioral health industry effectively. As a result of the partnership, CMHC Systems customers will be able to access web-based courses, have custom courses developed and made accessible to staff, and track and monitor the amount and results of the courses taken by staff.

The partnership with CCI will provide the opportunity for CMHC Systems customers to have their own training site, hosted by CCI. Larger agencies have the opportunity to private label the CCI content and technology, hosting it on their own servers and tailoring it to meet their specific needs and formats. CCI will also provide technical support to both end-users and CMHC Systems. There are already over 250 courses already available dealing with clinical trends and guidelines, ethics, confidentiality, OSHA and employment law.

Since 1978, CMHC Systems has pioneered the development of technology and management information systems for human service organizations. Integrating clinical, financial, demographic, and staff data, the CMHC/MIS permits total information management. Using browser-based software and operating under UNIX, the CMHC/MIS combines a powerful multi-tasking system with Internet technology to create a graphical environment allowing quick and easy system navigation. The CMHC/MIS works with all major network architectures. CMHC Systems has helped provide information management solutions to more than 500 organizations with 650 sites in 41 states and more than 25,000 end-users. The CMHC/MIS National User Group is also the largest and most active of its kind.

Founded in 1996, CCI has published the popular electronic Behavioral Healthcare Best Practices three times per week to an audience of over 5000 healthcare professionals and organizations. CCI launched its popular e-learning products in 1998. Since then over 3000 professionals have taken courses online where they can return to their "E-transcript" at any time to retrieve testing records and certificates of learning.. CCI also distributes the course content for over twenty other popular continuing education and training publishers with formats including online text, interactive multimedia and CD-ROM.

For more information about CCI, write at POB 76419, email [e-mail], call 888.249.1517, fax [phone], or visit website at www.continuedlearning.com. For more information about CMHC Systems, write us at 570 Metro Place North, Dublin, Ohio, 43017; call 888-848-8111, fax [phone], email [e-mail], or visit our web site at www.cmhcsystems.com.