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The Pursuit of Nursing Excellence Through Consistent, Standardized Training and Orientation Practices

Effective orientation is foundational to nursing excellence and HealthStream and AACN can help your organization establish an orientation program that will instill a sense of excellence among your nursing staff while helping to attract and retain top nursing talent.

September 26, 2023

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MDS Changes are Coming: What You Need to Know

The most significant changes to the MDS in the last decade will go into effect on October 1st. Due to far reaching impacts of the MDS process, leaders need to prepare now. Contact HealthStream today to learn more about how to meet these new requirements.

September 25, 2023

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CredentialMyDocᵀᴹ: An Interview with the Experts

In today's fast-paced world, efficiency is key, especially in the healthcare industry. CredentialMyDoc by HealthStream® has emerged as a game-changing solution for medical groups seeking to simplify their credentialing and provider enrollment processes. We recently sat down with Ashlyn Tyson, Associate Product Manager at HealthStream, to learn more about the latest enhancements to this innovative web-based platform. In our chat, Ashlyn shares how CredentialMyDoc is continuing to revolutionize the way medical groups manage credentialing and provider enrollment.

September 22, 2023

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Floating Employees During Flu Season - How to Let ShiftWizard Guide Your Scheduling Decisions

As flu season approaches along with the threat of staffing shortages, the challenges of managing nursing and other healthcare staff scheduling are emerging as even more urgent priorities. The good news is that centralized staffing solutions can help leaders ensure safe, seamless care for patients while also providing a solution that will engage employees. Click here for a demo of HealthStream’s ShiftWizard.

August 31, 2023

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From Paper to Pixel: The Digital Checklist Advantage

Moving from paper to pixel for checklist management can reduce errors, improve consistency and reduce management time. HealthStream’s Checklist is easy to implement with dedicated success managers that can help assist in the digital transition by reviewing existing checklists and making recommendations and helping to build checklists for quick and easy access.

August 28, 2023

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6 Tips to Make a Smooth Transition to a New Scheduling Solution

Changes in the workplace can indeed be hard for staff. Employees have a lack of knowledge about what to expect and a fear of the unknown, and they will question why the change is occurring. It is important for managers to understand this and to be prepared to address all of these issues. Here are six tips on how to coordinate a smooth transition to a new scheduling solution in your facility.

August 21, 2023

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Innovations in Interoperability with HealthStream

HealthStream has created the foundation for interoperability and offers a significant upside for customers and developers who can build on HealthStream’s 30 years of hard work and development. All of the systems working together makes them stronger and can result in safer, more compliant and more efficient healthcare.

August 17, 2023

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Strategies to Succeed as a New Chief Nursing Officer

The role of today’s CNO has expanded quite significantly. This leader needs excellent business skills, a solid grasp of financial and accounting principles, plus technical expertise with various software. As Healthcare Finance News reports, “Today’s CNO must be as comfortable talking about methods to improve productivity and reporting and the strategic importance (or lack thereof) of an IT initiative as they are about patient care initiatives.”

August 11, 2023

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Understanding Expertise vs. Specialties in the Healthcare Industry

In this blog post, we outline several considerations to help healthcare organizations understand the distinction between expertise and specialties, and how they relate to privileging and branding of healthcare providers.

August 09, 2023

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10 Pitfalls of Healthcare Compliance and How to Avoid Them

Healthcare leaders know that ineffective compliance programs create risk, but if they cannot pinpoint what ineffective compliance actually looks like, it becomes difficult to build an effective compliance program. HealthStream and their industry expert partners have identified the top 10 most common compliance pitfalls.

August 09, 2023

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3 quick wins for critical access hospitals to strengthen their operations

Harnessing 'quick wins' can be a powerful strategy for critical access hospitals (CAHs) to bolster their operations and ease the financial and staffing strains that they encounter in a persistently challenging healthcare environment.

August 07, 2023

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How to make nurse self-scheduling a win for everyone

Employee self-scheduling is a valuable tool for improving work-life balance and enhancing job satisfaction for nurses, and it frees up time for managers to do other tasks besides scheduling. Therefore, leadership should prioritize it as part of their workforce environment.

August 04, 2023

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What the HIMSS 2022 Cybersecurity Survey Means for Your Organization

Employees represent your organization’s first line of defense against cyber-attacks. HealthStream’s Security Awareness Solution can help protect your organization by equipping employees to recognize potential security threats.

July 27, 2023

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Unveiling Transparency: The COI Role of CMS Open Payments Data

The CMS Open Payments Program serves as a valuable tool to validate self-disclosures made by healthcare professionals: By cross-referencing self-disclosed data with CMS data, organizations can identify unreported financial relationships that may pose a conflict of interest and, ultimately, cause risk to the organization.

July 25, 2023

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The Changing Role of Healthcare HR Leaders: New Strategies to Recruit and Retain the Next Generation Workforce

HealthStream’s ShiftWizard can be an important part of your organization’s strategy to address retention and recruitment while creating engagement and reducing burnout. Reach out to HealthStream today to schedule a demo.

July 13, 2023

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Updated 2023 Staff-to-Provider Ratios in Medical Staff Credentialing

Updated research highlights several variables that come into play when determining the appropriate Staff-to-Provider Ratios in Medical Staff Credentialing. Get the details in this post.

July 11, 2023

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The Dire Need for Interoperability in HealthCare

Creating interoperability in healthcare will require more than just technology. All of the unique requirements of the healthcare industry need to be understood in order to build a platform that will work for providers, regardless of setting. It will also be important to remove the remaining silos of proprietary data and financial self-interest to build a platform that will allow providers to make better decisions about patient care.

July 10, 2023

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The ART Program: Equipping Nurses with Critical Skills to Anticipate and Respond to Patient Deterioration

The ART Program can reduce preventable deaths by changing how providers think and also changing clinical practice. Reach out to HealthStream today to learn more about how the ART Program can reduce the number of cardiac arrests and improve survival rates.

July 06, 2023

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The Power of Evidence-Based Resources for Effective Onboarding and Retention

Retention begins with building a strong foundation of investment in nurses. Contact HealthStream today to learn more about how providing evidence-based nursing content can become part of your organizations strategy to attract and retain nursing staff.

July 06, 2023

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The Need for New Strategic Relationships Between Quality and Finance

Improvements in quality and outcomes can lead to improved financial return. Leaders need to prepare now to build strong strategic relationships between quality and finance to ensure higher quality, safer, and more affordable healthcare that can lead to stronger financial performance. HealthStream can help your organization with quality and safety solutions that will help build this critical relationship.

July 05, 2023