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Streamlining Operations Through Delegated Credentialing
Learn how delegated credentialing can streamline provider enrollment, save time, reduce costs, and meet NCQA standards.
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Building High-Performance Teams in Healthcare: A Roadmap for HR Leaders
When HR leaders help lay the groundwork for high-performance teams, the ripple effect extends to every corner of the organization—and ultimately, to every patient it serves. Ready to strengthen leadership at every level and build high-performance teams across your healthcare organization? Explore HealthStream’s leadership development solutions today.
August 13th, 2025
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The Joint Commission’s Accreditation 360 Reflects a Simpler Path to Safer Care
In the most significant rewrite since Medicare was established in 1965, The Joint Commission is scaling back, cutting hospital standards by nearly 50%. Accreditation 360, officially announced on June 30, 2025, reflects a new mindset: It’s being described by The Joint Commission as “a dynamic, constantly evolving, forward-looking process that fosters continuous engagement and improvement, accountability, and lasting impact in healthcare quality and safety.”
August 11th, 2025
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The Role of AI in Modernizing Provider Credentialing
Provider credentialing can be a cumbersome, error-prone, and time-consuming process. Yet, it is a critical step that ensures healthcare professionals are qualified and competent, safeguards patient safety, and helps healthcare facilities maintain compliance with regulatory standards. Enter artificial intelligence (AI)—a game-changer that has the potential to improve healthcare credentialing with speed and efficiency. The adoption of AI in credentialing is low, but more healthcare organizations are starting to explore how to leverage AI tools in the credentialing process. From automating routine data entry to flagging potential compliance risks, AI and machine learning could bring new opportunities to transform how healthcare practices manage credentialing.
August 8th, 2025
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Why Cybersecurity Training and Policy Management Are Essential for Protecting Healthcare Data
Don’t leave your healthcare security to chance. Protect your organization through comprehensive cybersecurity training and robust policy management. Explore our tools and resources to learn actionable strategies for improving your security posture. Want tailored guidance? Contact us to explore how we can help safeguard your healthcare operations as part of a complete security solution. Together, we’ll create a secure environment that prioritizes patient safety and organizational success.
July 29th, 2025
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Credentialing is Evolving in a Changing Healthcare Landscape
Curious about what’s next in the future of medical staff credentialing? Read our newest report, 2025 Trends in Medical Staff Credentialing, which reveals critical insights into the evolving landscape of provider credentialing.
July 29th, 2025
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How S.T.A.B.L.E.’s eLearning Program Expands Access and Impact
S.T.A.B.L.E. is a widely distributed and implemented neonatal education program that aligns with modern workforce needs, clinical goals, and long-term training strategies. Our digital learning format improves access to courses and training modules that promote quality improvement and stronger outcomes. Is it time to offer a better, less restrictive option for neonatal training that boosts completion rates? Contact us to learn more about HealthStream's S.T.A.B.L.E. online program today.
July 24th, 2025
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Fostering Belonging through Accessible Healthcare Practices
A key component of creating an inclusive workplace is making accessibility a priority. Accessibility means making sure that employees of all abilities can fully engage with every aspect of your facility.
July 11th, 2025
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Report: Technology and Workforce Needs Drive Nurse Scheduling
Learn about key insights from HealthStream’s 2025 Trends in Nurse Scheduling report, which explores key challenges and strategies related to nurse scheduling in various healthcare settings.
July 1st, 2025
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Closing the Gap: Using Quality Management and Culture Education to Tackle Healthcare Disparities
Healthcare disparities aren’t new, but they are increasingly impossible to ignore. From uneven outcomes in chronic disease to unequal access to care, these gaps in the healthcare system impact not only patients but also the providers who care for them. Cultural factors often deepen these divides, with language barriers, mistrust of the medical system, traditional health beliefs, and differing attitudes toward care all playing a role.
May 28th, 2025
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From Risk to Resilience: The Power of Digital Policy Management in Healthcare
In the highly regulated world of healthcare, effective policy management is critical to ensuring compliance, reducing risk, and maintaining patient safety. Yet, many hospitals and healthcare organizations still rely on outdated methods for managing policies—at their peril. Using outdated systems can make it challenging to track updates, enforce consistency, and ensure staff always have access to the most current versions. Audits and accreditation reviews can become unnecessarily complex and time-consuming.
May 6th, 2025
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How to Navigate the NCQA's 2025 Credentialing Updates
Learn how to prepare for the NCQA’s 2025 credentialing updates and ensure your healthcare organization remains efficient, compliant, and focused on delivering quality care.
May 5th, 2025
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Improving Nursing and Long-term Care Facility Quality Ratings
Improvement can be simple with the right healthcare quality management software. HealthStream’s Quality Manager empowers leaders in SNFs and LTC facilities to pinpoint areas for improvement, make data-driven decisions, streamline compliance processes, save time and resources, enhance patient care quality, and ultimately, boost the bottom line.
April 28th, 2025
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What is Revenue Cycle in Healthcare?
The practice of healthcare concerns itself with achieving the best outcomes for patients. How healthcare companies deliver care and get reimbursed for services provided often depends upon well-honed processes. To be successful, the business side of providers’ systems must be operationally solid to ensure that billing and claims management deliver the capital needed. That means an unwavering focus on the revenue cycle, from start to finish, along the patient-care continuum.
April 24th, 2025
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Making the Connection Between Nurses and Health IT
Learn how and why it’s important to foster collaboration and communication between nurses and CIOs/technology leaders in their healthcare organization.
March 7th, 2025
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Creating a Culture of Safety: Q&A for Healthcare Leaders
As a healthcare leader, how can you foster a culture of safety at your organization? Can investing in a safety culture actually result in organizational change and reduced risk? What specific actions can you take to build and maintain a safety mindset among all team members? Whetheyou are an emerging leader or an experienced veteran in search of additional ideas, here are answers to commonly asked questions about fostering a culture of safety in healthcare.
March 5th, 2025
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5 Ways to Transform Your Healthcare Compliance Program Using AI
When you hear “artificial intelligence and compliance,” what first comes to mind? Initially, you might think of how critical it is to maintain compliance when using AI in healthcare. But have you considered the flip side—how you can use AI to optimize your healthcare compliance program?
February 25th, 2025
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G2 ranks HealthStream LMS #1 healthcare software
HealthStream’s Learning Management System (LMS) was ranked as the no. 1 application in G2’s prestigious list of “2025 Best Software in Healthcare.”
February 25th, 2025
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Prescription for Success: 10 Reasons to Invest in a Healthcare-Specific Learning Management System
Learn how to achieve healthcare competency with a healthcare-specific learning management system (LMS). This involves regulatory compliance, medical training, and more.
February 19th, 2025
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HIPAA Compliance and Healthcare Cybersecurity Best Practices
Here, we explore common challenges you may face as an IT or compliance leader, and present best practices and solutions you can implement to help reach your organization’s HIPAA and cybersecurity goals.