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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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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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Life Amid COVID: Vaccinations

The rollout of COVID-19 vaccines has prompted health facilities to impose very specific requirements for staff, most of whom are in compliance.

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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Providing Exceptional Healthcare for the Local Community

CredentialStream has enabled Garnet Health to standardize their privileging and data management.

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

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Reducing Risk Amongst Your Perioperative Staff With Annual Competencies

HealthStream and AORN can help ensure that your perioperative staff maintains competency that is in alignment with current guidelines. Your organization can begin preparing for updated 2023 competencies right now, while promoting safety by providing remediation and checklists that put educational resources directly in the hands of your nursing staff.

December 19, 2022

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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.

December 14, 2022

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OrthoLoneStar’s Seamless Migration from EchoCredentialing

While merging six group practices, OrthoLoneStar needed a more streamlined solution for credentialing and enrollment, so they chose CredentialStream

December 09, 2022

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Secondary Trauma: Fostering Resilience, Decreasing Burnout and Reducing Medical Errors

Secondary traumatic stress can impact caregivers, the organizations for which they work and the patients that they are caring for. HealthStream and CredibleMind have resources that can help your providers assess their STS and access the resources needed.

December 08, 2022

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Improving Resuscitation Care with EmpRes Healthcare

The Red Cross Resuscitation Suite™ is a resuscitation training solution that can work in non-acute settings. This adaptive, mobile solution can improve performance by providing better feedback to students while also offering a more efficient way to train your staff.

December 02, 2022

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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 28, 2022

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Massachusetts General Hospital – Better Feedback for Better Resuscitation Performance

Massachusetts General Hospital – Radiology Department

November 28, 2022

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UNC Health’s Journey to Standardize Privileging

With CredentialStream, UNC Health was able to upgrade their privileging process to fully maximize technology.

November 23, 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 23, 2022