The global COVID-19 pandemic has put the healthcare industry under a lot of pressure. Doctors, nurses, porters, healthcare professionals have to adapt and maintain their learning and training programs, with the highly volatile circumstances, whether that is dealing with new variants, identifying new symptoms, tackling localized outbreaks, or managing the vaccine rollout. The COVID-19 pandemic, the need for the fast creation and distribution of accurate medical, health, and safety training. Learning and training programs in healthcare organizations often have to drop everything at a moment’s notice to create new materials, and then find a way to get them out consistently and efficiently.

This is easily achievable with flexible learning technology. E-learning courses can be designed, developed, and distributed in days in some cases. With learning management systems (LMS) upscaling to accommodate thousands or even millions of healthcare professionals. One thing we’ve all learned from the COVID-19 pandemic is that we need to be prepared for anything.

Italy was one of the first countries badly hit by COVID-19. Istituto Superiore di Sanità is Italy’s main center for research, control and technical scientific advice for public health. They launched their first free COVID-19-related e-learning course in February 2020 to address the impending crisis. They needed to upscale their EDUISS learning platform from 40,000 users to 450,000 users in just one month.

Monash Health is the largest public health service in Victoria, Australia providing safe, high-quality care to one-quarter of the population in Melbourne across the entire lifespan, from pre-birth to end-of-life. Monash Health, in cooperation with the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services and the Federal Department of Health, urgently needed to deploy Monash Health’s PPE training for 70,000 residential care workers. Monash Health fast-tracked a six-week solution in just five days.

Healthcare organizations have had to do it all, from opening up learning to the extended enterprise to train volunteers, to upscaling their LMS to accommodate vast new audiences, to creating and distributing brand new e-learning programs to learners all over the world.