Online Learning and Training Become Critical for Healthcare Organizations During Covid-19 Pandemic

Totara adds 44 new healthcare customers in 2020 as organizations seek more robust, adaptable and scalable learning solutions

Totara, a leading provider of enterprise learning, engagement and performance management technology, announced strong customer growth momentum to close out 2020, especially among healthcare organizations. Totara added 44 new healthcare customers in 2020, reflecting high and continuing demand during the COVID-19 pandemic for more robust, adaptable and scalable learning, engagement and performance management solutions.

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Despite an aggressive roll-out of life-saving vaccines currently underway across the globe, full vaccine distribution may not be achieved in many countries until late spring or early summer of 2021. As a result, there is growing demand among organizations from virtually every industry to adopt and expand remote learning and training capabilities.

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“With the onset of the pandemic, healthcare organizations faced added pressure to increase services, production and research as well as employee and staff productivity at a time when organizations in many other industries experienced a slowdown,” said Richard Wyles, CEO of Totara. “These unprecedented events continue to create daunting challenges for organizations to communicate with, train and support employees at a time they need it more than ever. This is exactly why we created the Totara Talent Experience Platform. We’re thankful that so many organizations are able benefit from the highly adaptable learning, employee engagement and performance management capabilities Totara has to offer, especially during these challenging times.”

As the pandemic spread rapidly and lockdowns ensued, healthcare organizations needed to rapidly expand and launch remote learning and training to support new PPE and infection control protocols to protect medical staff and patients while fighting the infection.

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