STATE COLLEGE, Pa., July 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Aquatic Safety Research Group (ASRG) today announced the launch of its new online certification platform, providing practical, research-based aquatic safety training for aquatic professionals, property managers, hotels, apartment communities, homeowner associations, schools, camps, and aquatic facilities.

Built upon decades of aquatic safety research and field experience, the new platform delivers self-paced certification courses focused on preventing incidents before they occur.

The initial course catalog includes:

Swim at Your Own Risk Pool Safety CertificationFive Minute Scanning Strategy CertificationShallow Water Blackout CertificationDisappearing Dummies Certification

Each certification combines practical instruction, real-world examples, downloadable resources, knowledge assessments, and a personalized Certificate of Completion.

“Many aquatic incidents are preventable,” said Dr. Tom Griffiths, founder of Aquatic Safety Research Group. “Our goal is to provide professionals with practical tools they can immediately apply to create safer aquatic environments.”

The platform emphasizes proactive risk management, improved surveillance, emergency preparedness, water safety education, operational best practices, and facility risk reduction.

According to Dr. Rachel Griffiths, the courses were intentionally designed to be practical and immediately applicable.

“We wanted every participant to leave each course with actionable knowledge… not just theory. The downloadable resources, checklists, and real-world scenarios are designed to help facilities improve safety from day one.”

Each course is available online and may be completed at the participant’s own pace.

Additional certification programs covering aquatic operations, emergency response, supervision, and specialized safety topics are currently in development.

To learn more or explore the available certifications, visit:

https://courses.aquaticsafetygroup.com

About Aquatic Safety Research Group

Aquatic Safety Research Group (ASRG) is dedicated to reducing disability and drowning at aquatic facilities while enhancing the swimming experience through research, education, consulting, and innovative aquatic safety programs.

Founded by renowned aquatic safety expert Dr. Tom Griffiths and supported by Dr. Rachel Griffiths, ASRG works with aquatic facilities throughout the United States and internationally to improve aquatic safety through practical, evidence-based solutions.

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Partnership Accelerates Remote Care Adoption Across SRHO Member Health Systems, Extending Brook’s Agentic AI Platform to Communities Nationwide

SEATTLE, July 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Brook.ai, the remote care company, a pioneer of AI-enabled continuous care infrastructure, and SRHO – The National Association, the nation’s leading consortium of Strategic Regional Healthcare Organizations representing more than 275 hospitals across 20 states, today announced a strategic partnership to deploy Brook’s agentic AI remote care platform across SRHO member health systems – enabling continuous, longitudinal care beyond the walls of their institutions at a fraction of the traditional cost.

With health systems facing rising chronic disease burdens, persistent workforce shortages, and growing pressure to deliver outcomes-based care in the home, Brook’s continuous care infrastructure arrives at a critical moment. Trained on more than five million patient care conversations, Brook blends clinician-governed agentic AI with dedicated remote clinical teams to create a seamless, connected patient experience — embedding directly into longitudinal care workflows to enable earlier risk identification, timely interventions, and results that speak for themselves: a 50% reduction in all-cause readmissions, 74% hypertension control, and 71% long-term patient retention across Brook’s patient population.

SRHO’s economies-of-scale model means member hospitals of all sizes can now access this enterprise-grade infrastructure.

“Healthcare is at an inflection point,” said Brook.ai Co-Founder & CEO Oren Nissim. “The combination of agentic AI and a dedicated clinical care infrastructure means health systems can now deliver continuous, personalized care to their patients at home – at a scale and cost structure that simply wasn’t possible before. For the hundreds of hospitals in the SRHO network, that means care teams that can reach further, intervene earlier, and be present for patients in the moments that matter most between appointments. That is the kind of support that genuinely changes health outcomes, and we are honored to help make it a reality for so many communities.”

“SRHO’s mission has always been to help our member health systems access the tools, relationships, and scale they need to thrive in value-based care,” said SRHO CEO Mark Tribbett. “Brook represents exactly the kind of transformative partner we look for – an infrastructure that is proven, outcomes-driven, and built for the realities of community hospitals and regional health systems. We look forward to bringing Brook’s continuous care capabilities to our members and empowering them to deliver care for their patients at scale.”

Griffin Health, the nationally recognized independent community health system in Derby, Connecticut, was among the first SRHO members to deploy Brook’s platform; a natural extension of its whole-person care philosophy centered on meeting patients where they are.

“Griffin’s partnership with Brook Health has allowed us to use technology to expand patient access to care, deepen human connection, and help people live healthier lives,” said Griffin Health President and CEO Patrick Charmel. “Through our work with Brook, we’re already seeing progress helping people manage chronic conditions, including rapid blood pressure control, with patients achieving control in an average of eight weeks, and significant diabetes improvement, with high-risk patients reducing A1c by an average of 1.7 points within three months. These results are driven by identifying risk sooner and staying continuously engaged with patients by providing support and sharing health education in moments when symptoms arise. This approach reflects Griffin’s Planetree Person-Centered Care philosophy of treating the whole person, promoting meaningful human interaction, and empowering patients to become active participants in their care and wellbeing. Brook’s platform allows us to extend that by combining the thoughtful use of AI analytics with continuous human clinical support. It gives our care teams more timely insight and more opportunities to connect with patients in ways that are personal, responsive, and stay present in-between clinical visits.”

The Brook–SRHO partnership represents a significant step in the broader movement to make continuous, AI-enabled care a standard of practice – not a premium offering available only to the largest health systems. With strong early results at Griffin Health and more than 275 member hospitals now primed to benefit, this partnership signals a new era for how community health systems deliver care beyond the clinic.

About Brook.ai
Brook provides AI-enabled continuous care infrastructure that enables healthcare organizations to deliver remote care for patients with chronic conditions. By combining clinical intelligence, connected monitoring, and integrated workflows, Brook helps providers improve outcomes and scale proactive, value-based care. Designed to fit within existing clinical environments, Brook helps organizations extend care beyond the visit while improving quality, efficiency, and financial performance. Brook has been recognized by Modern Healthcare, the Stevie Awards, and leading digital health and AI award programs. Learn more at brook.ai.

About SRHO – The National Association
SRHO – The National Association is the nation’s premier consortium of Strategic Regional Healthcare Organizations, representing more than 275 hospitals and health systems across 20 states. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, SRHO enables member organizations to achieve economies of scale, advance population health initiatives, accelerate value-based contracting, and access best-in-class partners – all while preserving their organizational autonomy. Learn more at srho.org.

About Griffin Health
Griffin Health is an independent, community-based health system in Derby, Connecticut, widely recognized as a national leader in patient-centered care. Under the leadership of President & CEO Patrick A. Charmel, Griffin Health has appeared on Fortune Magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work for in America” list for ten consecutive years and has been designated a “World’s Best Hospital” for six consecutive years. Griffin Health is a member of SRHO – The National Association and the Value Care Alliance. Learn more at griffinhealth.org.

Media Contact
Verena Golway
Head of Marketing
Brook.ai
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Comprehensive new data and risk insights enable faster underwriting, onboarding, and portfolio monitoring

ATLANTA, July 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Verdata, a provider of small- and medium-sized business (SMB) data and risk insights for financial institutions and fintechs, today announced a strategic partnership with FICO, a global analytics software leader, through which Verdata’s solutions will be available on FICO® Marketplace. As financial institutions, payment providers, and fintechs expand their SMB portfolios, they face growing pressure to make faster, more confident decisions with data that is often fragmented, outdated, or difficult to connect.

Through FICO® Marketplace, organizations can now access Verdata’s actionable data and risk insights directly within their decisioning workflows. This enables teams to evaluate SMBs, monitor portfolio changes, and surface meaningful risk signals without relying on disconnected checks or new point-to-point integrations.

Verdata brings together 25M+ public, private, and consortium-based data records across firmographics, regulatory activity, business performance, financial indicators, principals, licensing, service reputation, and ongoing change signals. For lenders, payment providers, marketplaces, and other organizations, these insights help to significantly reduce manual review, identify changes sooner, and support stronger decisions across onboarding, underwriting, lead scoring, compliance, and portfolio monitoring.

“Financial institutions expanding their SMB portfolios need data they can act on,” said Jason Andrew, chief revenue officer at FICO. “FICO Marketplace was built to eliminate the friction between insight and action with intelligent decisioning, and Verdata’s SMB solutions deliver critical business context our customers need, directly within the workflows where decisions are made.”

“All organizations serving small and medium-sized businesses face pressure to make faster and smarter decisions. Traditional data sources leave critical gaps like incomplete, outdated, or disconnected data elements,” said Mike Mondelli, CEO of Verdata. “By adding Verdata’s business intelligence to the FICO® Marketplace, we enable organizations to incorporate complete, current, and actionable data into their decisioning ecosystem, helping them evaluate businesses faster, act with confidence, and strengthen outcomes across the customer lifecycle.”

FICO Marketplace is accessible directly within FICO® Platform and enables customers to leverage a catalog of offerings from trusted and pre-vetted providers. The marketplace reshapes how organizations gain value from AI by enabling rapid discovery and deployment of data, analytics and decisioning assets that fuel intelligent decisioning and drive better business outcomes.

To learn more, visit FICO® Marketplace.

About Verdata
Verdata is a small and medium-size business data and risk intelligence platform that helps organizations make clearer, faster, and more confident decisions across onboarding, underwriting, lead scoring, compliance, and portfolio monitoring. Leveraging its proprietary data consortium and unifying fragmented business data into an actionable intelligence layer, Verdata gives lenders, payment providers, marketplaces, and other organizations greater visibility into business identity, risk, and change.

About FICO
FICO (NYSE: FICO) powers decisions that help people and businesses around the world prosper. Founded in 1956, the company is a pioneer in the use of predictive analytics and data science to improve operational decisions. FICO holds more than 200 US and foreign patents on technologies that increase profitability, customer satisfaction and growth for businesses in financial services, insurance, telecommunications, health care, retail and many other industries. Using FICO solutions, businesses in more than 80 countries do everything from protecting 4 billion payment cards from fraud, to improving financial inclusion, to increasing supply chain resiliency. The FICO® Score, used by 90% of top U.S. lenders, is the standard measure of consumer credit risk in the US and has been made available in over 40 other countries, improving risk management, credit access and transparency.

Learn more at https://www.fico.com/en

Join the conversation at https://x.com/FICO_corp & https://www.fico.com/blogs/
For FICO news and media resources, visit https://www.fico.com/en/newsroom
FICO is a registered trademark of Fair Isaac Corporation in the U.S. and other countries.

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