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Contact: Shara Cohen
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ELM EXCHANGE DELIVERS RISK MANAGEMENT EDUCATION
TO SUNY PHYSICIANS UNDER DEADLINE
Online curriculum provides education solution to meet legislated insurance requirement

Rockville, MD - January 21, 2004 - ELM (Education in Legal Medicine) Exchange, the leading provider of Internet-based risk management education for the healthcare industry, today announced that 1,000 attending physicians, throughout the SUNY system, participated in, and completed, the ELM curriculum over the last 60 days.

New York State Insurance Department regulations require that for physicians to qualify for a state sponsored, excess layer of insurance coverage, they must complete an approved risk management education program. Academic Health Professionals Insurance Association (AHPIA), insuring State University of New York physicians, employed ELM's web-based solution to quickly meet the eligibility requirement for all of their insureds. The requirements are ongoing and ELM will continue to provide approved education to AHPIA physicians.

The ELM courseware, customized to both the state requirements and the AHPIA claims experience, covers a range of topics that include Consent, Accepting Patients, Discontinued Care and Duties to Nonpatients. By delivering this content over the Internet, their physicians are given an opportunity to fulfill the eligibility requirement and obtain CME credit at their convenience and at their own pace.

"Just a few months ago, we were facing a critical challenge. We needed, not only to launch a new, robust educational program, but also make it convenient for all of our physicians, across the state, to complete it. We also needed to improve our internal tracking to assure participation and gain feedback about our risk management initiatives." explains Martin Kern, AHPIA Executive Director. "From a long history of working with ELM, we knew the quality of their material, but the speed with which they executed this project was exactly what we needed. We are proud to have met the requirement and serve our physicians with such an innovative and effective program. The feedback has been extremely positive and we could not have done it without ELM."

The ELM curriculum uses a problem-based approach to illustrate fundamental legal principles as well as specialty specific concerns. ELM courses offer sophisticated content, progress testing, targeted feedback, and real-time reporting to raise the level of education for physicians and healthcare professionals. The design of ELM's courses, and their online delivery, has been developed to meet the specific needs of both program administrators and the health care provider.

About Education in Legal Medicine
For more than 15 years, Education in Legal Medicine (ELM) has provided a unified curriculum for health care providers aimed at lowering the risk of compensable harm to patients. Successfully completed by over 25,000 providers in every medical specialty, ELM coursework is a proven, substantive curriculum that provides administrators with a solution to addressing risk and liability within their organizations. The ELM curriculum provides health care providers with a CME alternative not bound by geographic or time constraints. ELM courseware is currently in use in many of top medical facilities in the country, including New York Presbyterian, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Yale-New Haven Hospital, Westchester Medical Center, and the SUNY system.