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Not the Same Old Shift: Solving healthcare staffing needs with Workday and ShiftWizard

Workday and ShiftWizard share data that can help leaders make informed staffing decisions and easily determine staffing needs while engaging employees with self-scheduling opportunities. In addition, the integration between these two solutions helps to ensure better recording of time and attendance and a reduction of payroll errors.

February 22, 2023

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Performance Privileges - The Value of ​Volume Data

Gathering massive amounts of data allows organizations to compare themselves more accurately to other “like” organizations. Learn about volume data and how it can be used to help provide the best in patient care.

February 15, 2023

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Nurse Strikes are Scary, but License Verification Doesn’t Have to be

Nurse strikes are becoming more common. Learn how HR teams can expedite license verifications for temporary resources with Workforce Validate.

February 13, 2023

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APIs in Healthcare Learning

You’ve likely heard that APIs can magically transform business, reduce waste, speed processes, and improve bottom lines. What does this mean for healthcare, and specifically for healthcare learning? Let’s explore the advantages of using APIs and some specific use cases to illustrate the wide variety of ways in which they can help transform your learning workflows.

February 08, 2023

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Ten Trends for 2023: Hospital at Home and Integration of Behavioral Health and Primary Care

COVID-19 continues to make its mark on healthcare, but not all COVID-19 changes were temporary or negative. Providing acute-care to patients in their homes and integrating behavioral health and primary care are important innovations that have been fast-tracked as a result of the pandemic. The remaining 4 trends will be covered in future blogs.

February 02, 2023

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What Today’s Provider Enrollment Professionals Are Saying About Provider Data Management

Medical Services Professionals (MSPs) throughout the country agree their jobs require a lot of diligence, attention to detail, and patience. We’re on a mission to provide MSPs with actionable data they can use to improve their processes. Here’s what today’s Provider Enrollment Professionals had to say about Provider Data Management in our annual survey.

January 31, 2023

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Medical Fraud is on the Rise, Here's What to Watch Out For

Healthcare fraud, AKA false claims, is an expensive crime affecting individuals and healthcare organizations alike. Read about the risks and learn how to protect yourself with Workforce Validate.

January 26, 2023

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Ten Trends for 2023: Emerging Technology and Cybersecurity

COVID-19 will continue to have an impact on healthcare organizations for the foreseeable future; however, healthcare leaders will also need to focus on new and re-emerging issues in what are hopefully the waning days of the pandemic. The remaining 6 trends will be covered in future blogs.

January 25, 2023

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Your Top 5 Privileging Questions Answered: Requirements, Procedures, and More

Privileging involves requirements amongst providers and health systems and involves defined medical staff policies and procedures. HealthStream answers the top questions to come out of our Privileging 101 webinar series here.

January 24, 2023

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Physician Burnout and Provider Competency Management Can be Fixed by CredentialStream

80% of providers are dissatisfied with their healthcare organizations credentialing process. CredentialStream® is here to fix that.

January 18, 2023

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Ten Trends for 2023: Financial Woes and Staffing

The pandemic has exacerbated some operational and financial issues for healthcare leaders while also creating new ones. The future remains uncertain as the issues created by COVID-19 persist and combine with the flu and RSV, to continue to challenge the healthcare delivery system. The remaining 8 trends will be covered in future blogs.

January 17, 2023

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What does a home health care nurse do?

Home health nursing is one of the many career options available within the nursing profession. It is a choice for registered nurses (RNs), licensed practical nurses (LPNs), and nurse assistants (NAs). The educational requirements for a home health nurse are dependent on individual nursing certifications.

January 17, 2023

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How Enrollment Can Make or Break Your Financial Outcomes

Discover how staffing levels, and claims, including holds and write-offs, are impacted throughout the industry, either by the pandemic, payers, staffing, or others.

January 13, 2023

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Introducing Workforce Validate

Workforce Validate is a safe, easy and effective way to monitor workforce compliance. It alerts leaders and employees of expiring and expired licenses by checking literally hundreds of sources. Pre-built reports and dashboards make it easy for leaders to monitor compliance. Workforce Validate can eliminate the time-consuming process of manually checking sites and helps your organization to mitigate risk and feel confident that staff members that are on the floor are safe to be there.

January 13, 2023

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Scheduling & Diversity in Healthcare

Are your workforce scheduling practices in line with your DEI initiatives?

January 13, 2023

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Top Three Challenges for Today’s Health Plans and How CredentialStream's Network Module Tackles Them

Managing a health insurance plan today is riddled with challenges. Read on to learn about the top three challenges for today’s health plans and how Network can help tackle them.

January 10, 2023

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Leveraging Patient Data to Support the Analysis of Clinical Competency

Storing and updating patient data is key to ensuring patients are receiving the right treatment from fully privileged and credentialed providers. Get a step-by-step approach to leveraging patient information to support the analysis of clinical competency.

January 09, 2023

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Invest To Retain: Developing Effective Nurse Leaders

There are real and tangible ways to support, develop and retain your nurse leaders. HealthStream has resources that can help you drive higher levels of engagement while developing nurse leaders with both strong clinical and leadership skills.

January 04, 2023

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The Must Haves For Effective Leadership Training For Your Clinical Staff

Early retirements, a pandemic and ongoing nursing shortages have combined to reduce the pipeline of nurse leaders. HealthStream has tools to help you identify potential new leaders, nurture existing leaders and provide education solutions that will help you create and continue to build a strong nursing leadership presence in your organization.

December 19, 2022

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Clinical Placement for the Future of Healthcare – A Conversation with Centura and UW Health

Preparing students for their future clinical placements can feel chaotic and overwhelming, but it is possible to impose some order on the process while reducing risk and improving your organization’s ability to onboard students and easily create accurate reports for your organization and its’ clinical and academic partners. myClinicalExchange can help build competence and compliance while helping to reduce the time and costs associated with the process.

December 19, 2022