Keypath Merges With GlobalHealth Education to Broaden Online Health Care Education
Keypath Education is pleased to announce the acquisition of GlobalHealth Education, bringing together two leading higher education businesses to better address the demand for health care education. Keypath Education has partnered with higher education institutions for more than 26 years to create the world’s most prepared students. GlobalHealth Education provides access to online health care degree programs for employees and members of health care companies and associations to advance their careers through a proprietary college and university network.
Under the new company structure, GlobalHealth will be rebranded as GlobalHealth by Keypath Education and will represent the company’s health care-focused online program management (OPM) business unit, by providing a highly tailored solution for health care programs worldwide. The global health care market presents a significant platform for the combined company’s continued growth and increased penetration. The health care industry in the United States alone is expected to see a 23 percent increase in jobs during the coming years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Particularly in the U.S., the increasingly complex health care system is calling for a more highly skilled workforce. Coupled with optimistic salary expectations, health care education is growing in popularity.
Together, Keypath Education and GlobalHealth will leverage deep health system relationships and B2B ties to deliver industry-leading online offerings. The partnership immediately increases the degree options available to health care workers and professionals.
Keypath Education, a global leader in marketing services and online enablement, works with its partners to launch programs, grow student enrollment, improve learning and connect education to careers. By joining Keypath Education, GlobalHealth will expand its portfolio of degree programs and provide more diverse and extensive support services to colleges and universities.
“Combining Keypath Education’s global online enablement expertise with GlobalHealth’s industry-leading health care OPM specialization will enable the enterprise to maximize student outcomes and deliver superior results for our partners,” said Keypath Education CEO Steve Fireng. “This partnership adds scale and greater capability to help colleges and universities launch and grow new health care programs. The health care profession continues to need a more educated workforce. Combined, we will support institutions and health care organizations in closing this gap.”
Fireng will remain CEO of Keypath Education. Debbie Schwarzberg, founder and CEO of GlobalHealth, will be joining Keypath Education as president of its OPM Health Care Division. Additionally, Keypath Education and dialogEDU, an intuitive global online learning platform owned by GlobalHealth’s former parent company, will enter into a strategic partnership to provide technology solutions to the higher education and health care communities in the form of a next-generation learning management system utilized by institutions focusing on high-quality, personalized learning.
“I am excited that GlobalHealth and I are joining the Keypath Education family," said Schwarzberg. "With our shared vision for online education and focused approach to the huge growth in the health care training and education market, GlobalHealth will now reach more students, health care businesses and medical associations with a broader and deeper set of education offerings.”
Together, the companies that have formed the new GlobalHealth by Keypath Education will work to meet the needs of the health care and medical communities by guiding learners from enrollment to graduation and beyond. This effort will also expand to Keypath Education’s operations in the U.K., Australia and Canada.
For more information, please contact Jon Gaunt, Keypath Education’s vice president of Strategy and M&A, at jon.gaunt@keypathedu.com.
About GlobalHealth Education
GlobalHealth Education provides support and turnkey systems for colleges and universities, including student recruitment and retention, program development, instructional design, and technology services for online programs in the health care education industry. Partner institutions, colleges and universities consider GlobalHealth and its learning management system, dialogEDU (which is owned by GlobalHealth's former parent company and will provide its learning management system), strategic allies in training and educating health care workers and professionals and supporting their career advancement by introducing them to online degree programs. Since its inception in 2009, GlobalHealth and its affiliates have trained over 75,000 adults and enrolled over 2,000 students for their partners. GlobalHealth is a former subsidiary of MedVue Holdings LLC. Visit globalhealtheducation.com and dialogedu.com to learn more.
About Keypath Education
Keypath Education partners with higher education institutions worldwide to launch programs, grow enrollment, improve learning and connect education to careers, using a proprietary technology suite. The company has helped more than 4,000 higher education institutions better serve students and graduates, resulting in a strong reputation for its education mission and quality in the United States, Canada, the U.K. and Australia. Since its beginning more than 26 years ago, Keypath Education has been dedicated to changing lives through education.