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The Importance of Data Governance for Effective Patient Care
Implementing data governance gives the healthcare industry access to analytics which help providers provide the best possible care to their patients.
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8 Best Practices for Successful Case Review
Healthcare organizations juggle a variety of priorities, but the one of most important is patient safety. There are many ways to ensure physicians are performing to the best of their ability, and one of those methods is Peer Review. In this post, we’ll go over both Peer and Case Review, and look into strategies for accurately evaluating provider performance.
November 28th, 2022
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Trends in Onboarding and Orientation - Solutions to Make it Safe and Efficient
HealthStream can help evaluate your organization's existing orientation and onboarding process and develop strategies to more efficiently manage the experience-complexity gap for new and transitioning nurses without sacrificing quality or safety.
November 23rd, 2022
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What Today’s Provider Enrollment Experts are Saying About the No Surprises Act
This year’s annual report survey on provider enrollment dives into Financial Outcomes and Implications, Business Services and Operations, and Provider Data Management. In this post we explore how the No Surprises Act is improving processes.
November 18th, 2022
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Scheduling Strategies: Turning Information into Action with ShiftWizard
This blog is from a recent webinar, “Scheduling Strategies: Turning Information Into Action.” The webinar was moderated by Sarah Enders, Senior Product Marketing Manager, and featured presenters Terri Epler, RN, Solution Consultant Manager and Sloane Johnson, RN, Solution Executive.
November 9th, 2022
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Why Are Certifications So Important?
HealthStream can help you build a culture of lifelong learning and provide the kind of CE that enhances recruitment and builds retention by offering thousands of titles and more than 40 certification preparation programs. The program provides reporting that makes it efficient to track all of your organizations' CE credits and uses AI to help identify critical gaps in knowledge and build a customized education program for each student.
November 8th, 2022
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Benefits of Ongoing or Periodic Professional Practice Evaluation Throughout a Healthcare Organization
Leverage Periodic Practice Evaluation (PPE) programs to improve individual provider performance and organizational quality.
November 2nd, 2022
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Mitigate Risk and Protect Your Organization: Automating Policy Management and Conflict of Interest Disclosure
Technology and automation can help your organization accurately and efficiently manage processes for policy and procedure management as well as conflict of interest disclosures. Both processes are complex and fraught with potential errors that can result in litigation or fines. HealthStream can help make both processes more efficient and less vulnerable to risk.
October 28th, 2022
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Building Psychological Safety and Belonging in Your Unit
Psychological safety and belonging matter to nurses. Building a sense of psychological safety and belonging can improve retention, engagement and satisfaction and build a strong, creative team. Healthy work environments produce better outcomes for nurses, patients and the organization. HealthStream and AACN have partnered together to offer solutions that will help leaders create the kind of work environments where nurses will want to work.
October 20th, 2022
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Healthcare Policy Management: Automation Solutions
Automating policy management is the best way to achieve compliance and ensure that your staff have access to the very latest regulations. HealthStream’s Policy Manager helps you put the most current policies and procedures in the hands of your organization’s frontline staff. It can save hundreds of hours per year for the average healthcare organization and provides the kind of reporting that can make visits from regulators and accrediting bodies more efficient.
October 19th, 2022
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Removing Barriers to EMS Training
The elimination of the NREMT’s restrictions on distributive learning can help make EMS training faster and more cost-efficient for your organization which still meeting your accreditation requirements. HealthStream’s EMS program is a comprehensive solution to your EMS training needs.
October 18th, 2022
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Fostering Mental Well-Being Amongst Emergency Department Staff
The threat of verbal and physical assault on ED staff continues to grow, creating a dangerous environment for nurses and other providers. Protection of the physical and mental health of ED providers should be on the radar screen of all healthcare leaders. HealthStream, in partnership with ENA and Psych Hub, have great tools that can help build a better understanding of mental health while helping providers to develop self-care strategies that will help them to provide high quality care in the ED that is safe for both patients and their providers.
October 17th, 2022
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Privileging 101 - Introduction to Privileges: Back to Basics - Physicians
Our Privileging 101 Series covers it all, from basic education on the history and fundamentals of clinical privileging to how to navigate all the regulatory and legal aspects involved. Part 1 provides an overview of the journey physicians must complete before they can apply for privileges.
October 4th, 2022
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Rapid Onboarding and Retention for New Hires
Having a great onboarding process can help you and your organization improve the quality of patient care, reduce risk and improve retention. You can have a great onboarding process by focusing on what matters – ensuring that your nursing staff are confident, competent and ready to consistently and safely apply their clinical knowledge and judgement.
September 1st, 2022
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When and How Should Case Logs be Used to Document Competency
Some hospitals and health systems require documentation of a certain number of admissions or consultations prior to granting privileges. Discover when and how case logs should be used to document competency.
August 26th, 2022
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Goodbye, Binders! The Better Staff Checklist Experience
Binders and paper records are a poor solution for standardizing and validating skills. HealthStream’s award-winning Checklist Management can help your organization with a solution that is reliable, customizable, and cost-effective and will also contribute to consistent, high-quality care for your patients.
August 10th, 2022
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Shoulder Dystocia Preparedness
Shoulder dystocia is a low-incidence, high-risk obstetrical emergency. Understanding the risks, recognizing the signs and knowing the proper course of action to take when it occurs can save lives. HealthStream’s Quality OB Program can give your staff the tools that they will need when faced with this obstetrical emergency. This program can be an important part of your organization’s strategy to improve outcomes, build staff competency and confidence and reduce the organization’s exposure to risk.
July 25th, 2022
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Addressing the Experience-Complexity Gap in Nursing
The Experience-Complexity Gap is further complicating an existing nursing shortage. HealthStream has solutions that can help your organization close the gap by creating a faster and more effective onboarding process, standardizing clinical practice to reduce risk, providing cross-training and upskilling and building strong retention programs.
July 19th, 2022
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Promoting a Culture of Resilience
The need to build resilience in healthcare workers will remain long after the pandemic is over. Additional outbreaks of disease, national disasters and other crises will test the resilience of healthcare workers and organizations. You can choose to begin the process of building a resilient team right now. HealthStream’s Resilience in Healthcare program can help connect your staff with help today.
July 11th, 2022
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Preparing your non-clinical staff to respond to an emergency
HealthStream’s American Red Cross First Aid/CPR/AED program can relieve the stress of building competence and confidence in your non-clinical staff with training that is flexible, engaging and designed to meet all regulatory requirements.