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How Nurse Leaders Can Ensure Fairness in Workforce Scheduling

Having an effective and healthcare-specific workforce scheduling system is an essential component to helping nurse leaders foster a fair and inclusive environment for their staff.

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5 Things You Need to Know Now About Provider Data, CAQH, and CAQH Enrollment and Integration

CAQH is helping drive the goal of reducing healthcare costs by streamlining the way provider data is maintained and improving credentialing and enrollment processes.

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6 Benefits of One Source of Truth for Provider Data for Credentialing and Enrollment and How to Get There

Consolidation creates a single source of truth for provider data, with one application and one reappointment date across all system facilities. A physician is in the system only once for all credentialing, removing the need for multiple spreadsheets and checklists.

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Data Consolidation Creates a Single Source of Truth for Provider Data

Find out how to assemble the right team, the right approach, and acquire the right tools to discover your single source of truth.

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A Foundational Need for Safe, Quality Care

Google and YouTube are poor substitutes for safe, reliable access to trusted information on clinical best practices. In the absence of alternatives, you nursing and allied health staff may turn to these sources. EBSCO and HealthStream can put an entire library of clinical decision and support skills in their hands right where they need it most – at the patient bedside – or anywhere else for that matter – ensuring that your patients get safe, high-quality care for every patient every time.

March 20, 2023

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Solutions to Care for an Aging Population

More than 10,000 U.S. adults are turning 65 each day. As the population ages, they generate a number of critical issues and trials for an industry that is already dealing with financial problems, severe staffing shortages, and provider burnout. The following are some of the unique challenges to be prepared for as a large proportion of our population ages over the next decade.

March 17, 2023

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New Joint Commission Standards to Reduce Healthcare Disparities – What You Need to Know

The new Joint Commission standards will apply to acute care hospitals, ambulatory care, behavioral health, critical access hospitals, and human services organizations. Healthcare organizations can begin preparing to meet the new requirements now.

March 17, 2023

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Expanding Access For a Growing Network

CredentialStream has helped Sentara HealthCare with duplicate records, complications with system-wide updates, and a lack of transparency within the application process.

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What Medical Services Professionals (MSPs) Should Know About Life Support Certification

How VerityStream and HealthStream connect resuscitation certifications, provider validation, privilege delineation, and the American Red Cross together to save lives and improve healthcare.

March 17, 2023

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Trends that Will Shape a New Decade in Healthcare

Fact or fad? Find out which trends will impact healthcare and provider management over the next decade and which will not in this new report.

March 17, 2023

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Facts all Ambulatory Surgery Centers Need to Know About Privileging

Understand the facts and achieve clinical competency for Ambulatory Surgery Center credentialing and privileging, a vital pillar to patient safety and risk management.

March 17, 2023

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Facts all Urgent Care Clinics Need to Know to Keep Ahead of Their Competition

As more and more urgent care clinics enter the marketplace, competition is starting to heat up. Here are several ways your organization can remain at the forefront and be a leader in the urgent care sector.

March 17, 2023

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Privileging Telehealth Providers

In light of the coronavirus pandemic and the ever rising proliferation of technology, it is no surprise health systems are turning to telehealth to meet their patients' needs. However these is much to consider when it comes to telehealth, especially the complications that arise when privileging telehealth providers.

March 17, 2023

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Increased Regulations Drive the Need for Standardized Data and Automation

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Top Reasons to Automate and Standardize Privileging with CredentialStream’s Privilege Solution

Specialty certification goes beyond the required state and local licensure requirements. Certification acknowledges clinical knowledge, experience, expertise, and judgement within a specialty. Let us show you how CE Unlimited can help with recruitment and retention.

March 17, 2023

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Deficiency-free surveys achieved with HealthStream Quality Manager, formerly known as abaqis®

Presbyterian Senior Living is a non-profit retirement and senior living organization with 30 locations serving more than 6,000 seniors.

March 15, 2023

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Asante achieves $600K annual savings with safety and compliance training

As the largest healthcare provider in nine counties, Asante provides medical care to 600,000 people throughout Southern Oregon and Northern California.

March 14, 2023

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Reduce Credentialing and Provider Enrollment Timeframes with CredentialMyDoc™

Streamlining your credentialing and enrollment processes will deliver increased efficiency while allowing you to provide the best care possible. Here’s how CredentialMyDoc can help.

March 14, 2023

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The Impact of Unconscious Bias on Healthcare

Unconscious bias often leads to false assumptions and negative outcomes for minority groups in the healthcare setting. We must focus on reducing the impact of unconscious biases on physician-patient interactions, which contributes to health disparities.

March 14, 2023

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Acuity-based scheduling: A promising strategy for optimizing patient care

There are multiple variables to balance when constructing shift schedules for healthcare staff. One key factor for hospital managers to consider is patient acuity, and yet there is much discussion about how to consider it when making staffing decisions.

March 02, 2023