Ariadne Labs and Amplifire Develop Online Training on Serious Illness Care Program COVID-19

BOSTON, MA., Sep. 03, 2020 /Ariadne Labs/ — Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Amplifire, an innovative knowledge engineering and training platform, today announced the launch of an online educational module developed to introduce clinicians to Ariadne Labs’ Serious Illness Care Program’s COVID-19 Conversation Guide. This collaboration brings Ariadne Labs’ tools and content expertise into a unique online format, allowing for further spread of the toolkit to clinicians nationwide.

“People can become very sick very quickly with COVID-19. As COVID-19 spread, clinicians needed to engage in difficult conversations to help patients and families understand the illness and make complex care decisions in a way that was both kind and effective,” said Erik Fromme, MD, Faculty on the Serious Illness Care Program. “Building on nearly a decade of experience and research in serious illness communication, our team set out to address this need, developing the COVID-19 Conversation Guide and a suite of tools to support learning and implementation.”

Amplifire is a virtual learning platform that detects and corrects confidently held misinformation and knowledge gaps across a variety of industries, including health care.

“It is a privilege working with Ariadne to address the critical topic of serious illness care. Their wisdom on compassionate patient-centered care combined with Amplifire’s adaptive learning platform is a powerful combination in the midst of COVID-19. We look forward to growing our collaboration to disseminate their knowledge of serious illness care to providers across the country and around the world,” said Bob Burgin, CEO of Amplifire.

Amplifire’s health care education tools aim to help clinicians improve performance by identifying and addressing uncertainty, knowledge gaps, and misinformation, leading to reductions in clinician error and improved patient outcomes. The Amplifire Healthcare Alliance brings together a broad range of health care systems working to drive better decision making in health care.

“At Ariadne Labs, we’re committed to innovating for simple, scalable solutions that drive better care for every patient, everywhere, every time,” said Evan Benjamin, MD, Chief Medical Officer of Ariadne Labs. “Through this collaboration, we have the opportunity to expand the reach of our tools to support more clinicians in having important conversations with their patients during this pandemic.”

Ariadne Labs and Amplifire also plan to develop online learning content for additional Ariadne tools from the Serious Illness Care Program, along with material from the Safe Surgery Safe Systems Program.

Additional information about the course and how to access the tool can be found on the Amplifire website.

AAMI to Leverage Cognitive Science to Deliver Online Training

ARLINGTON, VA., July 28, 2020 /AAMI/ — Over the last two years, the Association for the Advancement of Medical instrumentation (AAMI) has been transforming and modernizing to better serve members and stakeholders. Now, the organization is announcing a new strategic partnership, one aimed at delivering revolutionary online training.

“We’ve invested heavily in upgrading our education offerings—overhauling core components of our curriculum, investing in new courses and certifications, and launching our state-of-the-art AAMI Center for Excellence to support classroom-based and live-streamed training,” noted Rob Jensen, president and CEO of AAMI. “Now, we’re turning our attention to transforming the delivery of online education. To that end, we are delighted to announce a strategic partnership with Amplifire, the leader in leveraging cognitive science to radically improve training outcomes.”

“This isn’t just about using online learning to drive down the cost curve or facilitate distribution,” said Robert Burroughs, senior vice president of education at AAMI. “It’s about leveraging science to do something we couldn’t even imagine doing 20 years ago – in the classroom or online.”

The platform was developed by neuroscientists and cognitive experts from Harvard and six leading academic institutions. Amplifire’s strategy of using memory “triggers” to  promote rapid learning and long-term retention will now be harnessed for crucial industry training.

“This is a game-changer for medical device manufacturers, and can be used for compliance education with QA and RA staff, and with educating customers on how to safely and effectively use medical devices,” said Dr. Bradley Schoener, AAMI vice president of innovation.

“Even better, Amplifire has made the invisible visible,” added Burroughs. “It’s now possible to get an accurate snapshot of your workforce’s competency before and after training. I’ve been focused on organizational effectiveness for 20 years and this is the first time I’ve felt we have the power to really do something radically different and better than we could before the advent of online learning.”

As a part of the strategic partnership, AAMI will become a member of the Amplifire Healthcare Alliance, leveraging AAMI expertise to add medical device and health technology courses to the Alliance network. In addition, AAMI will work directly with medical device manufacturers, independent service organizations, and healthcare delivery organizations to develop custom solutions utilizing the Amplifire platform.

“AAMI is the de facto world leader driving the safe and effective use of healthcare devices,” said Bob Burgin, CEO of Amplifire. “Their standards are used worldwide in manufacturing, servicing, and healthcare delivery; their education programs set the bar for quality; and AAMI members, like members of our own Science Board, are thought-leaders in their field. We can’t wait to see what they can do with the Amplifire platform at their disposal.”

Amplifire (www.amplifire.com) is the leading results-based learning platform built from discoveries in brain science proven to help individuals learn faster, retain knowledge longer, and perform better. Healthcare, education and Fortune 500 companies use Amplifire’s patented learning algorithms, knowledge analytics, and diagnostic capabilities to drive improved outcomes with a significant return on investment.

About AAMI

AAMI (www.aami.org) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1967. It is a diverse community of more than 9,000 healthcare technology professionals united by one important mission—supporting the healthcare community in the development, management, and use of safe and effective health technology. AAMI is the primary source of consensus standards, both national and international, for the medical device industry, as well as practical information, support, and guidance for health technology and sterilization professionals.

About Amplifire

Amplifire (www.amplifire.com) is the leading results-based learning platform built from discoveries in brain science proven to help individuals learn faster, retain knowledge longer, and perform better. Healthcare, education and Fortune 500 companies use Amplifire’s patented learning algorithms, knowledge analytics, and diagnostic capabilities to drive improved outcomes with a significant return on investment.

Students at CompTIA Authorized Academic Partner Schools Can Continue Their IT Studies with Free Resources from CompTIA and Amplifire

Downers Grove, Ill., April 14, 2020 /CompTIA-Newsroom/– CompTIA, the global information technology (IT) industry trade association, and Amplifire, the leading eLearning platform built from discoveries in brain science, announced today that they are offering free online resources to help students prepare to take their CompTIA certification exams.

Students attending any school that is a member of the CompTIA Authorized Academic Partner Program are eligible for free 60-day access to CertMaster Practice, the online exam prep tool that helps learners stay on track, maximize study time and prepare with confidence for their exams.

“Students and their instructors have put in long hours studying in anticipation of earning a CompTIA certification, only to see their preparations put on hold when schools closed because of the COVID-19 pandemic,” said John McGlinchey, executive vice president for global certifications at CompTIA. “With free access to CertMaster Practice, we’re encouraging students to build on what they’ve learned in the classroom so they’re confident and prepared when the time comes to take their certification exam.”

“We are excited to be joining forces with CompTIA and their partners in assisting students during these uncertain times. CertMaster Practice is an engaging and effective learning tool that will allow these students to master the concepts needed to pass the certification exam and excel in their new careers,” said Greg Simmons, senior vice president, Amplifire Advanced Education.

Beginning on April 15 CompTIA will offer an online testing delivery option for its certification exams via Parson VUE’s OnVUE remote proctoring solution.

“Students can learn, practice and test at home with full confidence that they’re doing so on a highly-secure system that’s available anytime and anywhere,” McGlinchey said.

CertMaster Practice is an adaptive knowledge assessment tool designed specifically for exam preparation. It uses a question-first approach to determine what a learner has already mastered and what they still need to learn. Through personalized feedback, visual dashboards that display progress and other features, learners improve their confidence and increase their knowledge retention.

CertMaster Practice courses are available through this promotion for CompTIA ITF+ (IT Fundamentals), A+ (Core 1 and Core 2), Network+ and Security+ certifications.

The free CertMaster Practice offer is available to students who attend a school that is a member of the CompTIA Academic Partner Program. The offer is valid through the end of the current school year, June 15th. Students interested in access a free 60-day license for CertMaster Practice can register at https://www.comptia.org/content/lp/certmaster-practice-offer. Qualified applicants will receive instructions via email in 24-48 hours on how to get access. The offer is limited to one license per student.

CertMaster Practice is one of many learning and training resources available under the Official CompTIA Content brand, the only study material exclusively developed by CompTIA to support all of its certification exams. Visit https://www.comptia.org/training for more information.

About CompTIA

The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) is a leading voice and advocate for the $5.2 trillion global information technology ecosystem; and the estimated 75 million industry and tech professionals who design, implement, manage, and safeguard the technology that powers the world’s economy. Through education, training, certifications, advocacy, philanthropy, and market research, CompTIA is the hub for advancing the tech industry and its workforce. Visit www.comptia.org to learn more.

About Amplifire

ith over 2 billion learner interactions, Amplifire (www.amplifire.com) is the leading adaptive learning platform built from discoveries in brain science that’s proven to help learners master faster, retain knowledge longer, and perform better. It detects knowledge gaps and misinformation that exist in the minds of all humans so they can better attain their performance potential. Healthcare, education and Fortune 500 companies use Amplifire’s patented learning algorithms, knowledge analytics and diagnostic capabilities to drive exceptional outcomes with a significant return on their investment in learning.

HealthcareSource Partners with Amplifire Healthcare Alliance, Now Distributing Infection Prevention and Control (COVID-19) Essentials Course

WOBURN, Mass., April 3, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — HealthcareSource, the leading provider of talent management solutions for the healthcare industry, is partnering with Amplifire, an innovative knowledge engineering and training platform, to distribute its Infection Prevention and Control Essentials – Rapid Refresher course to healthcare organizations across the U.S.

HealthcareSource now offering a course created by Amplifire in collaboration with ECRI and leading academic institutions, which identifies known areas of PPE misuse and provides a refresher on how to properly use PPE that will help save lives.

The course is designed to help frontline caregivers exposed to COVID-19 refresh their knowledge of proper PPE usage to better avoid catching the virus themselves or transmitting it to others. Unlike many other training courses available today, the course identifies known areas of PPE misuse while also directly addressing the consequences of PPE shortages.

“HealthcareSource is committed to providing healthcare organizations with resources and a learning infrastructure to educate and train their staff during this critical time. Partnering with Amplifire provides us with a scalable solution that will help healthcare organizations with emergency preparedness and infection control,” said Michael Grossi, CEO of HealthcareSource.

While frontline healthcare workers are fighting COVID-19, the proper usage of PPE is instrumental in keeping the spread to a minimum. But according to a 2018 study, 73% of caregivers failed to take appropriate precautions against infectious agent transmission. This course was created to help frontline workers identify potential errors when managing PPE – based on real data – and lessen their exposure to the virus.

Built with leading infection control and safety experts from ECRI and other academic institutions, this course will arm caregivers for the ongoing battle with COVID-19. Importantly, the course acknowledges that PPE supplies are dwindling and highlights effective equipment workarounds that can be broadly disseminated. Guidelines for PPE use will be frequently reviewed and adjusted, with course refreshers delivered to all caregivers.

“As devoted as our caregivers are, we cannot simply trust that they have the right knowledge to protect themselves and the patients with whom they interact while dealing with COVID-19. By quickly validating and refreshing critical knowledge, healthcare providers and frontline staff will have greater confidence and competence at this critical time,” noted Bob Burgin, Amplifire’s CEO.

“Amplifire’s patented learning algorithms, knowledge analytics, and diagnostic capabilities, allow healthcare organizations to rapidly refresh and validate frontline healthcare workers’ infection prevention and control knowledge to reduce risk and improve safety during this crisis,” said Mr. Grossi. “Our partnership with Amplifire furthers our commitment to support healthcare organizations in their fight to combat the coronavirus pandemic.”

For more information, register for our webinar on Thursday, April 9th at 2:00 p.m. ET to learn more about the course and how to enroll.

About HealthcareSource®

HealthcareSource offers the only comprehensive talent management suite designed specifically to support the healthcare talent ecosystem. Its software, services, content, and analytics enable more than 3,500 healthcare organizations, senior care providers, and staffing agencies, spanning over 6,000 locations, to ensure quality patient and client care by recruiting, retaining, and developing quality talent. HealthcareSource and its award-winning healthcare talent management solutions have been recognized by industry analysts and trade groups.

About Amplifire

With over two billion learner interactions, Amplifire (www.amplifire.com) is the leading knowledge engineering platform built from discoveries in cognitive science. Patented learning algorithms in Amplifire correct the misinformation, uncertainty, and knowledge gaps that exist in the minds of every individual.

About Amplifire Healthcare Alliance

The Amplifire Healthcare Alliance is an expanding consortium of leading healthcare organizations that are collaborating to transform care through clinical knowledge engineering. Members are united in identifying and remediating Confidently Held Misinformation and knowledge gaps among providers that cause avoidable harm and unreimbursed care, in order to elevate both clinical and financial performance. Our Healthcare Alliance partners across the US build and share courses in topics that reflect their expertise to help clinicians improve judgement and decision-making.

Amplifire Offers Infection Prevention and PPE Shortage Training to Protect Caregivers

BOULDER, Colo., March 30, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Amplifire today released its Infection Prevention and Control and COVID-19 Essentials – Rapid Refresher course. This new course is designed for frontline caregivers who are fighting to minimize the spread of the outbreak by not acquiring the SARS-CoV-2 virus themselves or transmitting it to others. In contrast to many other training resources that have recently surfaced, this course focuses on known areas of misunderstanding regarding use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), while also directly addressing the consequences of PPE shortages.

Built with leading infection control and safety experts from ECRI and academic institutions, this course is meant to arm caregivers for the ongoing battle. It addresses measures that caregivers sometimes forget. For example, a 2018 study on infectious agent transmission in hospitals found 238 failures in 325 observations related to PPE.

Importantly, the course acknowledges that PPE supplies are dwindling and highlights effective equipment workarounds that are being broadly disseminated. Guidelines for PPE use will be frequently reviewed and adjusted, with course refreshers delivered to all caregivers.

Bob Burgin, CEO of Amplifire said that, “Knowledge gaps occur every day in healthcare settings. They will be starkly revealed during this crisis. We cannot take on a pandemic effectively if our frontline healthcare workers are unknowingly part of the spreading mechanism, or not able to come to work because they are sick.”

According to Dr. Brent James, Chairman of Amplifire’s Clinical Innovation Advisory Board and a recognized expert in healthcare quality and safety, “Passing out informational flyers and PowerPoint decks, or reminding caregivers about proper PPE usage will not suffice. There is not enough time for classroom training or lectures. Even if there was, we know that such training approaches are not effective. We must turn to the most advanced knowledge transfer tools being used by leading health systems for critical training in infection-oriented areas such as Sepsis, C-diff, and CLABSI. With such tools we can rapidly validate that a frontline caregiver understands the most effective infection control practices and the most effective PPE workarounds as supplies run low during this emergency.”

Dr. Brigitta Mueller, Executive Director of Patient Safety, Risk, and Quality at ECRI, a collaborator who helped design the course noted that, “By rapidly refreshing and validating vital knowledge about infection, healthcare providers and frontline staff will have greater confidence and competence at this unprecedented time.”

Amplifire is offering Infection Prevention and Control and COVID-19 Essentials at no cost to its Healthcare Alliance Members now using either the “Safety and Quality Essentials” or the “Compliance” libraries. Other healthcare systems can learn more about accessing the course here. It can be deployed directly to any size workforce through a link in an email or by using an organization’s learning management system.

About Amplifire Healthcare Alliance

The Amplifire Healthcare Alliance is an expanding consortium of leading healthcare organizations that are collaborating to transform care through clinical knowledge engineering. Members are united in identifying and remediating Confidently Held Misinformation and knowledge gaps among providers that cause avoidable harm and unreimbursed care, in order to elevate both clinical and financial performance.

About Amplifire

With over two billion learner interactions, Amplifire (www.amplifire.com) is the leading knowledge engineering platform built from discoveries in cognitive science. Patented learning algorithms in Amplifire correct the misinformation, uncertainty, and knowledge gaps that exist in the minds of every individual and leads to poor decision-making.

Olympus and Amplifire Jointly Develop Digital Learning Platform Aimed at Improving Patient Safety

CENTER VALLEY, Pa., and BOULDER, Colo., Feb. 24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Olympus Corporation of the Americas and Amplifire today announced a partnership to improve patient safety with a new digital learning platform designed to improve duodenoscope reprocessing by technicians. The new digital learning platform will be specifically designed for reprocessing the Olympus TJF-Q180V duodenoscope, which is a complex medical endoscope used to perform endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP).

In 2016, Amplifire co-developed an electronic training course for reprocessing technicians on the exact steps for cleaning and disinfecting duodenoscopes. The course proved effective in helping technicians master the details of the multi-stage reprocessing process and overcome misinformation. Olympus has subsequently created a new course for the TJF-Q180V duodenoscope, offered electronically and based on its most current instructions for use, that focuses on the reprocessing steps during which mistakes often occur. The course is being made available through Amplifire to Olympus duodenoscope customers in the U.S., at no additional cost.

Amplifire transforms traditional training into an engaging, effective learning experience. According to learning and memory researcher Will Thalheimer, memory is extremely variable between different learners. Memory is also highly dependent on the tools and techniques used within a chosen training technology. Amplifire addresses these challenges with a patented process built from insights in cognitive science that increase levels of attention, motivation, and confidence, leading to greater human performance, especially when working under pressure. Leveraging Amplifire’s patented learning algorithms, knowledge analytics, and diagnostic capabilities, the new learning modules aim to improve consistency and outcomes in duodenoscope reprocessing.

“As a market leader in endoscopy, Olympus continues to be responsive to the changing needs of our customers to ensure patient safety,” said Kevin Mancini, Vice President for Marketing, Endoscopy Division, Olympus America, Inc. “Through this exciting new partnership with Amplifire, we are offering, at no cost, leading-edge education and training to ensure the highest levels of quality and safety in reprocessing our duodenoscopes. This effort is all about enhancing the capability of technicians and the wellbeing of patients.”

Amplifire CEO Bob Burgin noted, “We are excited to be joining forces with Olympus and their global effort to improve patient safety when using these essential life-saving devices. This partnership aligns with our core values and goals, as we aim for improved patient safety through clinical knowledge engineering. In a world of rapidly evolving bacterial threats to patient wellbeing, Olympus is united with us in helping healthcare organizations elevate technical performance and patient safety.”

For more information about the new learning module, visit https://medical.olympusamerica.com/interactive-duodenoscope-learning-module.

About Amplifire

With over two billion learner interactions, Amplifire (www.amplifire.com) is the leading knowledge engineering platform built from discoveries in cognitive science. Patented learning algorithms in Amplifire correct the misinformation, uncertainty, and knowledge gaps that exist in the minds of nearly all technicians and clinicians. Our Healthcare Alliance partners across the US build and share courses in topics that reflect their expertise to help clinicians improve judgement and decision-making. Alliance members use Amplifire as a strategic initiative that reduces their organizational knowledge risk, delivering a significant return on investment through performance gains and improved patient experience.

About Olympus Medical System Group

Olympus (medical.olympusamerica.com) is a global technology leader, crafting innovative optical and digital solutions in medical technologies; life sciences; industrial solutions; and cameras and audio products. Throughout our 100-year history, Olympus has focused on being true to society and making people’s lives healthier, safer and more fulfilling.

Our Medical Business works with health care professionals to combine our innovative capabilities in medical technology, therapeutic intervention, and precision manufacturing with their skills to deliver diagnostic, therapeutic and minimally invasive procedures to improve clinical outcomes, reduce overall costs and enhance quality of life for patients.

ⁱ Thalheimer, W. How Much Do People Forget? Work-Learning.com Retrieved. http://www.work-learning.com/catalog.html. Published April 2010. Accessed February 13, 2020.

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Health Catalyst and Amplifire Healthcare Alliance Unite to Boost Measurable Healthcare Improvements

Salt Lake City, UT—Jan. 30, 2020 —prnewswire (“Health Catalyst,” Nasdaq: HCAT) today announced a strategic partnership with Amplifire Healthcare Alliance to use clinical knowledge engineering to accelerate healthcare transformation. This long-term partnership will provide highly-targeted, quality improvement-oriented learning modules on a state-of-the-art learning platform.

Healthcare’s changing reimbursement frameworks are increasing risk, external accountability and exposure. Health Catalyst customers will gain immediate access through this partnership to Amplifire learning modules for front-line care givers to provide measurable improvements. Health Catalyst will bolster Amplifire’s platform by developing data literacy, improvement strategy and data governance educational content for five key roles:

• Data engineers, who aggregate and integrate data;
• Analytics engineers, who transform data into insights;
• Healthcare front-line managers, who use insights to propose improvement initiatives;
• Executive leaders, who prioritize, fund and champion improvement initiatives;
• Interdisciplinary improvement teams, who help front-line managers design, implement and sustain improvements.

These five roles are critical to establishing and accelerating a customer’s transformation flywheel that Health Catalyst CEO Dan Burton introduced at HAS19.

“Harnessing valuable data to pinpoint thousands of opportunities for clinical, financial and operational improvements is imperative for healthcare organizations,” said Tom Burton, co-founder and president of professional services of Health Catalyst. “The Amplifire partnership enables greater physician, nurse and other key staff members’ competency acquisition and retention around the knowledge required for deep improvements, and it will accelerate an organization’s ability to leverage analytics for massive improvement.”

Health Catalyst has more than a decade of proven success helping clients enhance quality and reduce variation in care and improving clinical, financial and operational performance despite the complexities and pace, amount and frequency of change. Now, Health Catalyst customers will be able to access a library of hundreds of learning modules focused on front-line care delivery professionals that can greatly enhance adoption of best practices.

Dr. Brent James, clinical professor in the Clinical Excellence Research Center (CERC), Stanford University School of Medicine; and visiting lecturer, Harvard School of Public Health said, “I believe that this combination of smart professionals, topically focused and tightly educated around specific competencies, along with effective systems, has the potential to create a care delivery system that would perform far beyond what any of us now believe is possible.”

“The subject matter experts leading the learning modules development at our member organizations, including Partners HealthCare, Intermountain Healthcare, MedStar Health and UCHealth, have proven that we can efficiently deliver expert knowledge on a wider scale with higher impact,” said Bob Burgin, CEO, Amplifire. “This past year, we have begun to expand the focus across virtually every major area of an integrated delivery network. Historically, we lacked access to operational and data engineering capabilities to support this effort. Health Catalyst brings these capabilities to our partnership. We aren’t aware of anything close to this comprehensive solution provided by our combined offering.”

About Amplifire Healthcare Alliance

The Amplifire Healthcare Alliance is an expanding group of leading healthcare organizations that are collaborating to transform care through clinical knowledge engineering. Members are united in identifying and remediating Confidently Held Misinformation and knowledge gaps among providers that cause avoidable harm and unreimbursed care, in order to elevate both clinical and financial performance.

About Amplifire

Amplifire (www.amplifire.com) is the leading adaptive learning platform built from discoveries in brain science that’s proven to help learners master faster, retain knowledge longer, and perform better. It detects knowledge gaps and misinformation that exist in the minds of all humans so they can better attain their full performance potential. Healthcare, education and Fortune 500 companies use Amplifire’s patented learning algorithms, knowledge analytics and diagnostic capabilities to drive improved outcomes with a significant return on investment, while also enhancing the learning experience.

About Health Catalyst

Health Catalyst is a leading provider of data and analytics technology and services to healthcare organizations committed to being the catalyst for massive, measurable, data-informed healthcare improvement. Its customers leverage the cloud-based data platform—powered by data from more than 100 million patient records and encompassing trillions of facts—as well as its analytics software and professional services expertise to make data-informed decisions and realize measurable clinical, financial, and operational improvements. Health Catalyst envisions a future in which all healthcare decisions are data informed.

Dr. Bryan Bushick Named Amplifire’s General Manager, Healthcare

BOULDER, Colo., Sept. 24, 2019/PRNewswire — Amplifire is pleased to announce that Bryan Bushick, MD, MBA, has assumed overall responsibility for the company’s healthcare-related activities. A seasoned executive and consultant, Dr. Bushick brings experience in population health management, IT-enabled innovation, patient safety and organization-wide performance improvement. He joined the senior leadership team earlier this year as the company’s Chief Healthcare Innovation Officer and will retain that role.

The Amplifire Healthcare Alliance enables the adoption of best practices and reduction of avoidable patient harm. Healthcare providers use the Amplifire platform to improve their knowledge, judgment, and decision-making. Dr. Bushick will strengthen and expand the Healthcare Alliance by cultivating new health system members and partnerships involving other organizations.

Dr. Bushick and the Amplifire team will help members derive value from clinical knowledge engineering efforts around their health systems’ critical priorities. He’ll also facilitate collaboration among Alliance members, help identify unmet needs, and foster co-development opportunities involving courses or entire libraries.
“Our Alliance members have shown an amazing ability to identify and remediate knowledge gaps and enrich the learning experiences of physicians, nurses, technicians and other care givers,” said Bob Burgin, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of the Amplifire Healthcare Alliance. He continued, “The expansion of Bryan’s responsibilities comes at a critical time. The Healthcare Alliance is growing rapidly, as new members and partners join, and as the initiatives that we’re taking on together rapidly expand. I am so pleased to have his continued leadership and counsel.”
“I’m thrilled by the opportunity to build upon the meaningful work that’s well underway,” noted Dr. Bushick. “Through the Healthcare Alliance, significant breakthroughs will be achieved and, importantly, spread throughout the U.S. healthcare system as well as into other countries. It is an honor to work closely with the many talented, passionate and highly engaged thought leaders from the Alliance as well as with Dr. Brent James, Chairman of Amplifire’s Clinical Innovation Advisory Board, and its other members.”

Prior to Amplifire, Dr. Bushick’s executive roles included operational accountabilities as Chief Operating Officer at DocSite and Prominence Health Plan, enterprise-wide quality leadership as System Vice President, Performance Measurement and Improvement at Allina Health System, and relationship building with customers, prospects and partners as Senior Vice President, Business Development at CareScience. In 2004, he founded Falcon Health Solutions, an advisory firm whose notable clients have included Geisinger Health System, ECRI Institute, RMF Strategies, EMMI Solutions and Mercy Virtual. Dr. Bushick also previously served as a consultant with Towers Perrin and was an executive at UnitedHealthcare.

Recognition of Dr. Bushick’s competencies and health sector experience was evident when the U.S. Secretary of Commerce appointed him in 2011 (and reappointed in 2014) to the Board of Overseers of the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program. Earlier, he led examiner teams that piloted Baldrige’s Health Care Criteria and evaluated numerous other applicants, including a health system that eventually received the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Dr. Bushick holds an MD from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, an MBA from the Wharton School and a BS from Dickinson College.

About Amplifire Healthcare Alliance

The Amplifire Healthcare Alliance is an expanding group of leading healthcare organizations that are collaborating to improve care and prevent patient harm. Members are united in raising the bar on knowledge, judgment, and decision-making to elevate clinical and financial performance. They are improving patient outcomes by identifying and mitigating ‘confidently held misinformation’ and uncertainty.

About Amplifire

Amplifire (www.amplifire.com) is the leading adaptive learning platform built from discoveries in brain science that’s proven to help learners master faster, retain knowledge longer, and perform better. It detects knowledge gaps and misinformation that exist in the minds of all humans so they can better attain their full performance potential. Healthcare, education and Fortune 500 companies use Amplifire’s patented learning algorithms, knowledge analytics and diagnostic capabilities to drive improved outcomes with a significant return on investment, while also enhancing the learning experience.

Amplifire Meets with World’s Most Prestigious Learning and Memory Experts

Boulder, Colo. — August 2, 2019 — Amplifire, the proven learning platform that delivers meaningful results for many leading corporate and educational companies, hosted some of the world’s most prominent cognitive psychologists and pedagogical scientists at its annual Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) meeting, July 29–31, 2019. These researchers convened as part of an ongoing effort to apply their findings into scalable technology for the learning and development market.

Amplifire’s prestigious SAB contributes to, reviews, and validates the methodology and algorithms of Amplifire’s software, keeping the organization at the forefront of scientific advancement in learning and memory.

“With guidance from our SAB, Amplifire surveys the research literature for triggers that are shown to switch on the learning circuits in the brain that cause long term memory,” said Charles Smith, co-founder and Chief Research Officer for the company. “We then work to figure out how to turn the most effective triggers into techniques in software that cause the process of learning to speed up, and the product of memory to become more durable.”

These scientists joined the SAB because they believe in the data-driven approach Amplifire takes to learning. The chair of the SAB, UCLA’s Dr. Robert Bjork, reminisced that numerous educational software companies had approached their lab. In each case, he said, it was clear that they were simply looking for an endorsement rather than actually applying any findings. Dr. Elizabeth Bjork added that “Amplifire was different. They’d actually read our research papers, and understood them.”

Amplifire’s SAB members include:

• Robert Bjork Ph.D., and Elizabeth Bjork, Ph.D., of the Bjork Learning and Forgetting Lab at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
• H Chad Lane, Ph.D., from the University of Illinois
• Richard Mayer, Ph.D., from the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB)
• Henry Roediger, Ph.D., and Kathleen McDermott, Ph.D., from the Washington University in St. Louis Memory Lab
• Daniel Schacter, Ph.D., from Harvard University’s Schacter Memory Lab
• Bob Birnbaum, M.D., from Partners Health in Boston

During the 2019 meeting with executives from Amplifire, the SAB members:

• Presented their latest research.
• Discussed what’s on the horizon in terms of new research, experiments, and findings for learning and education from the scientific community.
• Evaluated and made recommendations for current and future product features.
• Examined the role of artificial intelligence in the learning platform.

“We are so fortunate to have this prestigious board to not only validate the work that we do, but to also feed in to our future roadmap and product improvements,” said Nick Hjort, Senior VP of Product and Software Development.   “I can think of no better aid in helping us stay true to the science and making sure that Amplifire is the most effective learning tool on the market today.”

About Amplifire

With over 2 billion learner interactions, Amplifire (www.amplifire.com) is the leading adaptive learning platform built from discoveries in brain science that’s proven to help learners master faster, retain knowledge longer, and perform better. It detects knowledge gaps and misinformation that exist in the minds of all humans so they can better attain their performance potential. Healthcare, education and Fortune 500 companies use Amplifire’s patented learning algorithms, knowledge analytics and diagnostic capabilities to drive exceptional outcomes with a significant return on their investment in learning.

Dr. Brent James to Chair the Clinical Innovation Advisory Board of the Amplifire Healthcare Alliance

BOULDER, Colo., July 30, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Amplifire is pleased to announce that Brent James, MD, MStat, will serve as Chairman of the Amplifire Healthcare Alliance Clinical Innovation Advisory Board. Dr. James has long been recognized internationally for his work in clinical quality improvement, patient safety and the infrastructure that underlies successful improvement efforts.

In a recent meeting with the ten system Alliance members, Dr. James stated, “I first ran into Amplifire several years ago, and was deeply impressed with the learning model behind it. We then built out a Central Line Associated Blood Stream Infection course in the platform and saw very strong performance in reducing incidents.”

Bob Burgin, Amplifire CEO and Founder of the Healthcare Alliance noted, “I have followed Brent’s work since To Err is Human was published nearly twenty years ago. He brings a level of thought to these challenges that is inspiring to me.”

Dr. James expanded on the paradigm that brought him to chair the Advisory Board, “You take massive amounts of information, load it into clinicians’ heads, and expect those health professionals to somehow correctly deliver it to individual patients. David Eddie, who invented the science behind evidence-based medicine and the term itself, said it nicely: ‘The complexity of modern medicine exceeds the capacity of the unaided expert mind.’”

Dr James continued, “I’ve long held that the real solution is to move it out of human memory and build systems that make it easy to do it right. You need a 2 part solution. You need better underlying systems, but the idea of an expert mind is still essential. It doesn’t go away. What I saw in Amplifire, was a tool that much more accurately, completely and rapidly loaded that knowledge base. It gave us not just the ability to transmit it, it gave us the ability to measure how well we had done that and identify specific areas where things were falling short. I personally believe that this combination of really smart professionals, topically focused and tightly trained around specific issues, in conjunction with effective systems, has the potential to create a care delivery system that would perform far beyond what any of us now believe possible. We have not yet begun to understand how good we can be. ”

Burgin stated, “Brent’s accomplishments in this field are well known and respected, and we are honored that he will be chairing our Healthcare Alliance Innovation Advisory Board. His counsel carries substantial weight.”

Dr. James continued, “As an advisory board, we are a group of scientific experts taking a close look at focused training solutions and their use in real clinical applications. The kinds of questions Bob is asking of us include: Are we evaluating the clinical impact correctly? Are we thinking about this problem in the right way? What are the questions we should really ask, not just of the content but also of the underlying platform? Are we doing it right?”

Dr. James is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) in Boston, MA. He is also a Senior Advisor at the Leavitt Group and a Senior Advisor at Health Catalyst, in Salt Lake City, Utah. He holds faculty appointments at the Stanford University School of Medicine and at several other universities. He was formerly VP and Chief Quality Officer at Intermountain Healthcare.

He has been honored with awards for quality in health care delivery, including (among many others): the John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety & Quality Award – The Joint Commission and the National Quality Forum, 2019; the Deming Cup – Columbia University School of Business, 2011; C. Jackson Grayson Medal, Distinguished Quality Pioneer – American Quality and Productivity Center, 2010; Joint Commission Earnest A. Codman Award, 2006; AHA HRET TRUST Award, 2005; National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) Quality Award, 2005; and the American College of Medical Quality Founders’ Award, 1999.

For 8 out of its first 9 years, Dr. James was named among Modern Physician’s “50 Most Influential Physician Executives in Healthcare.” In Modern Healthcare, he was named among the “100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare” and “25 Top Clinical Informaticists.”

About Amplifire Healthcare Alliance

The Amplifire Healthcare Alliance is an expanding group of leading healthcare organizations that are collaborating to transform care through clinical knowledge engineering. Members are united in identifying and remediating Confidently Held Misinformation™ and knowledge gaps among providers that cause avoidable harm and unreimbursed care, in order to elevate both clinical and financial performance.