Outsource Accreditation

Outsource CE and CME Accreditation Process for Reliable, Cost-Effective Accreditation

Healthcare organizations are struggling to maintain accrediting body status in the face of increasing regulation, complex accreditation requirements and rising compliance costs. Seeking a reliable, cost-effective accreditation solution for their courseware and educational programs, many organizations are turning to HealthStream for help. HealthStream Accreditation Services employs HealthStream’s long-standing status as an accredited provider of many national accrediting bodies, and its core expertise in CE and CME accreditation processes, to streamline the accreditation process, eliminate costly delays and remove distractions from the customer organization’s core business.

Impact:

• Reduce risks by ensuring compliance through HealthStream Accredited Education, a recognized leader in accreditation
  
• Promote measurable outcomes by tying CE and CME offerings to strategic quality initiatives
  
• Lower costs through streamlined CE and CME processes, eliminating duplicated efforts and leveraging economies of scale
  
• Highly qualified subject matter experts (SME) and peer review processes
  
• Capture critical documentation for reporting of compliance with accreditation requirements and processes, including needs assessment results and planning documentation

Features:

Expertise, Proven Processes, and Best in Class Tools

• Expert Accreditation Team
  
  • Experienced Course Directors and Continuing Education Manager and Nurse Planners
    
  • PMI certified project managers
    
  • Pre-approved SMEs and Reviewers holding relevant degrees
    
• Proven accreditation processes and standardized methodology
  
• Best in class tools include registration tools for the HealthStream Learning Center (HLC) for tracking, evaluating, and reporting

• HealthStream has accrediting body status from:
  1. Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME)
     
  2. American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation (ANCC)
     
  3. American Council on Pharmaceutical Education (ACPE)
     
  4. Association of Surgical Technologists (AST)
     
• HealthStream is an approved provider of nursing CE by the following state boards:
  1. Florida Board of Nursing
     
  2. California Board of Registered Nursing
     
  3. Iowa Board of Nursing
     
  4. West Virginia State Board of Examiners for Registered Professional Nu

• HealthStream accreditation processes are fully updated to comply with new requirements and regulations, including:
  
  • AMA’s 2006 addition of Performance Improvement criteria for AMA PRA credit
    
  • ACCME’s 2006 refocusing of accreditation requirements for Accredited Providers of CME activities as a ‘bridge to quality’ and measurement of performance improvement for some activities
    
  • We are current for ACCME, ANCC, ACPE 2007 standards of commercial support

This service is essential for:

• Driving maximum value and usage from custom courseware
  
• Meeting the expanding accreditation needs of new strategic education initiatives
  
• Bringing effective education programs into production quickly
  
• Reducing overall costs of custom courseware and educational programs

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