Irish Global Health Education Innovation (acquired by Bridgepoint) ^Company

iheed is an online medical education company that designs, develops, and delivers online accredited post-graduate education programs and degrees in partnership with medical universities. The company is built by doctors and healthcare professionals (HCPs) for doctors and healthcare professionals. iheed offers certificate, diploma, and Masters level education material to HCPs, packaged in modules. It utilizes technologies to offer the students a personalized, multi-sensory, multi-device learning experience suited to their learning style. Its programs and courses are adapted to the requirements of the healthcare system in different countries combining global best practice in medical training with local population healthcare needs. Its programs and courses are aimed at addressing the broad topics of healthcare need for frontline HCPs globally such as diabetes, women’s health, neurodegenerative diseases, cardiology, travel medicine, infection control, emergency medicine, disaster planning, research methodologies, practice management, nursing and pharmacology, and more. The iheed Online Learning Environment (OLE) is a next generation cloud-based platform for online education supports interactive case-based learning methods, provides practical real-world education for practicing clinicians, and helps them build up their clinical, professional, and communication skills in patient consultation. It offers a number of features aimed at tutors and administrators such as rubrics, Speedgrader, and Turnitin to support tutors in reviewing and grading student assignments, extensive reporting and analytics, targeted messaging, and various views that enable tutors to identify students that are not keeping up with the instruction or meeting pre-defined learning thresholds. Tutors of iheed’s Tutor Network hold weekly, bi-monthly, and per topic tutorial discussions via the web conferencing system within the iheed OLE platform to ensure students are aware of what is expected of them each week, and to discuss the key learning points in the context of the students’ day-to-day practices. iheed works in partnership with many medical universities, global health organizations, and technology companies, including University of Florida Health, Qualcomm, Hamad International Training Center, Johnson & Johnson, Health Human Resources Development Center, HP, Harvard School of Public Health, Tropical Medical Bureau, and Alliance Boots. Iheed was founded in 2010 and is based in Dublin, Ireland.