HealthStream and Belmont University are partnering to produce educational content to support manikin-based simulation and debriefing for medical educators (click, then scroll to bottom here). HealthStream is part of a JV with publisher Laerdal.

HealthStream material news

Nashville-based HealthStream announced it spent $3.5MM cash to acquire 50% of SimView, a Laerdal education debriefing video system essential in learning processes; and, announced it had changed its line of credit arrangement with SunTrust, partly to support growth efforts.

HealthStream-Laerdal content development

More details this morning on the earlier-announced co-marketing and -development collaboration by HealthStream, the e-learning and research company; and, publisher Laerdal Medical. They're allowing developers to collaborate through a tool called SimDeveloper, with goods sold through SimStore. No word yet on who owns what. Initial collaborators include "National League for Nursing, American Academy of Pediatrics, Belmont University and Health Care Simulation South Carolina (USA); Oxford Brookes University and SAFER Simulation Center (Europe); and Edith Cowan University (Australia)," among others. The joint release is here.