The phone rang one day and a voice on the other end of the phone said, “what do you know about patient privacy?”  Relationships we had formed during the Y2K days came calling asking if we could help the healthcare industry come into compliance with new patient privacy laws known as HIPPA.  All healthcare workers we required to receive training on the subject and all healthcare facilities had to proved they’d delivered it.  So we formed a partnership with the non-profit, Center for Healthcare Excellence, in Seattle and wrote s secure, online training platform where a healthcare facility could have employees log in, receive training, take a test, and sign a compliance document stating that they would follow the rules.  The system would provide a certificate of completion to the student and reporting to the facility to prove their compliance status.  In 2003, after the acquisition of another healthcare training entity, Southam sold its interest in the Healthcare Training Institute (HCTI) to the Center for Healthcare Excellence, retaining its ownership of the core platform code.