We are pleased to announce that Decision Critical has been acquired by Nashville-based HealthStream, Inc. For more details on the acquisition please see the official press release.
Category Archives: Healthcare Industry
Decision Critical, Inc. and Bluedrop, Inc. Form Strategic Relationship
May 1, 2012 – 2:14 pm
Decision Critical, Inc., the leading provider of web-enabled competency management systems to healthcare organizations across the US, announced today that it has formed a strategic relationship with Bluedrop Performance Learning Inc. (TSX-V: BPL). Specifically, the product at the center of this agreement is the CoursePark® Healthcare Solution – which includes a comprehensive library of compliance [...]
McCombs Health Care Symposium
April 18, 2012 – 4:38 pm
The McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin will be holding its 3rd Annual Symposium on April 26th & 27th at the AT&T Conference Center in Austin, Texas. The conference theme is “Innovation in Health Care Delivery Systems: Doing More with Less”
Among the many noteworthy speakers is be Dr. Kenneth Dion. [...]
Sigma Theta Tau President’s Reception at AONE
April 16, 2012 – 9:51 pm
The Sigma Theta Tau President’s Reception at the American Organization of Nurse Executives Conference was attended by the leadership of nursing service and academic organizations. Dr. Suzanne Prevost, President of Sigma Theta Tau, provided an overview of the work that the International Nursing Honor Society has undertaken and will be embarking on in the near [...]
Interview with Dr. Billye Brown
April 10, 2012 – 11:25 am
Recently, Dr. Ken Dion, Founder & CEO of Decision Critical, had the pleasure of sitting down with Dr. Billye Brown, International Nursing Honor Society Living Legend, to discuss her journey to leadership. The interview with Dr. Brown can be found at Reflections on Nursing Leadership an online publication of the International Nursing Honor Society, Sigma [...]
Congratulations Chase Smith, Decision Critical’s Nursing Excellence Scholarship Recipient
March 8, 2012 – 4:33 pm
Chase Smith, student nurse at the University of San Francisco, is been selected as the recipient of the 2012 Decision Critical Nursing Student Excellence Scholarship. This $1200 scholarship administered though the Foundation of the National Student Nurses’ Association will assist Chase in his journey to become a registered nurse. “Decision Critical is proud to recognize [...]
Daisy Foundation Grant Application Available
February 13, 2012 – 7:46 pm
Mark and Bonnie Barnes are amazing people. They started to Daisy Foundation to honor their late son Patrick. The Daisy Award Program recognizes nurses who deliver exemplary patient care. The Daisy Grant Program fosters research to improve the quality of patient care. Please consider recognizing your nurses with a Daisy Award and applying for a [...]
Robert “Bob” Bacon joins Decision Critical
February 9, 2012 – 2:53 pm
Decision Critical is proud to welcome Bob Bacon to the management team as the Vice President of Business Development.
Bob brings more than 25 years of sales and business development experience to Decision Critical. He has successfully led sales and marketing teams and has taken the lead in several public offerings and merger transactions. Bob’s work [...]
People, Process and Technology – Where are you improving outcomes?
January 13, 2012 – 2:53 pm
During the mid-90’s, I worked for a consulting firm implementing electronic medical records. Our tag line back then was, “People, Process, and Technology”(PPT). In 1999, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) informed the healthcare industry that it ended the lives of close to 100,000 patients each year through preventable medical errors. So what did the industry [...]
Decision Critical Founder and CEO inducted into the UCF Knightingale Society
November 14, 2011 – 11:24 pm
Dr. Kenneth Dion was inducted into the University of Central Florida (UCF) Knightingale Nursing Society. The Knightingale Society recognizes a special group of individuals that have shown a strong commitment to nursing through their personal dedication and involvement. Dr. Dion and Decision Critical have been strong supporters over the years of nursing and the quality [...]