Press Release

1. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
VITAL SIMULATIONS RELEASES NEW HEALTH CARE ONLINE EDUCATION
ACCELERATED LEARNING SIMULATION
Hartmann USA provides health care learners with access to latest software
Minneapolis, MN, March 22, 2016– VitalSims™ announced the national release of their incontinence
associated skin damage (IASD) online training simulation. This is the latest addition to their suite of
patient safety and chronic disease management educational software developed for health care
professionals and students.
“We are pleased to develop and release this valuable educational tool to health care professionals which
will aide in the identification and assessment of this high incidence concern which affects millions of
patients each year in the U.S.,” said David Wrightsman, CEO of VitalSims. “We, our content providers
and collaboration partners nationwide are passionate about the improvement of patient outcomes and
this development was no exception,” he added.
Hartmann USA released this education platform to hundreds of health care professionals earlier this
month as a free continuing medical education (CME) service to a network of medical professionals. “The
virtual clinic environment created by the development team at VitalSims was visually appealing and the
medical content was created by clinical experts,” said Maryann Beebe, Product Manager for
Incontinence Management at Hartmann USA. “We expected that learners would begin to access the
training over the course of the month and were delighted when long term care providers registered for
all 200 online seats within a matter of hours,” she remarked.
Medical content and subject matter expertise was provided by the University of Minnesota School of
Nursing and was led by Donna Bliss, PhD, RN, FAAN, FGSA.
VitalSims collaborates, develops and distributes online accelerated learning technology (imagine a flight
simulator for health care), which assess and validate skills, knowledge and decision making in a safe
environment that is applicable for use in professional education and health system workforce
development. Their learning simulations have been proven to improve patient outcomes and have a
positive impact on health care economics. These educational simulations have been developed as an
online resource which affords rapid deployment across integrated delivery networks, health systems
and schools of medicine at a moment’s notice and allow learners to access on their laptop, smartphone
or tablet device.
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Contact: Chris Merritt
Email: cmerritt@vitalsims.com
Website: www.vitalsims.com