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Understanding Medical Billing Cycles and Solutions
Medical billing is complicated for trained professionals, so why do providers expect patients to understand it without a little help and coaching?
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To Improve Healthcare Quality Outcomes, We Must Focus on Turnover
High turnover rates can have a significantly detrimental impact on hospitals, patients, and healthcare staff. Staff turnover in hospitals is estimated to cost at least two times the pay of a regular employed nurse.
April 16th, 2021
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Setting the Perfect Nurse Rotation Schedule
Making scheduling easier and more efficient for nurses and their mangers can lead to higher levels of engagement and satisfaction and perhaps also improve metrics related to patient experience, quality, and financial performance.
April 16th, 2021
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The New Rules of Healthcare Recruiting: Best Practices
Industry disruption empowers healthcare HR and talent management leaders to create sophisticated processes to attract and engage the right candidates. Hiring the right people has never been more important in this age of radical reform, innovation, and consumerism.
April 15th, 2021
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Three Webinars Focused on Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management
Here are links to three recorded HealthStream webinars about solutions to common challenges in healthcare revenue cycle management.
April 15th, 2021
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The Benefits of a Clinical Ladder Nursing Program
Read how the benefits of a clinical ladder nursing program focuses on advancing careers past novice to retain nurses while gaining higher salaries, from HealthStream.
April 15th, 2021
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Overcoming the Challenges of Fragmented Care
The United States healthcare system has grown increasingly fragmented. Those afflicted by chronic conditions may attend unnecessary appointments, receive confusing and contradictory advice from their doctors, struggle to get to the doctor’s office, and despair at exorbitant out-of-pocket expenses.
April 14th, 2021
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New Healthcare Roles Are Emerging to Meet Changing Care Needs
As medicine evolves, new types of doctors and nurses are emerging to meet our system’s changing needs. In some cases, these clinicians are in new specialties that didn’t exist until recently, and demand for some of these physicians is already high.
April 14th, 2021
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Six Ways Healthcare Analytics Can Improve Patient Care
Healthcare analytics has the potential to improve healthcare in ways we are only beginning to realize. Here are some of them that are already becoming reality.
April 14th, 2021
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Six Best Practices for Establishing a Centralized Verification Office: The Experience of Our Lady Health System
The Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System is a five-hospital system in Louisiana with five employed medical groups and a clinically integrated network. Here are six best practices to guide an effort to centralize credentialing across a multi-facility system.
April 14th, 2021
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Organizational Goal Setting in Healthcare: Best Practices
Goal setting is one of the most important activities for any healthcare organization and one of the examples of smart goals in healthcare, from HealthStream.
April 14th, 2021
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Six Reasons to Prioritize Employee Recognition Over Rewards in Healthcare
Effective recognition occurs when an employee receives authentic feedback from a peer, manager and/or leader as to how his/her actions impacted team objectives or the organization’s purpose. Here are six reasons to prioritize employee recognition over rewards in healthcare.
April 14th, 2021
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Identifying a Conflict of Interest in Healthcare and How to Prevent Them
A conflict of interest in healthcare can range from the most simple and obvious to extraordinarily complex, as a few examples can demonstrate. Well defined policies and procedures can provide a template for improved understanding and compliance.
April 14th, 2021
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Qualities of a Great Nurse: A Comprehensive List
Learn the qualities that make a great nurse and how these qualities can elevate patient care, strengthen teams, and propel your organization’s success.
April 14th, 2021
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Six Key Trends Emerging in Non-Acute Care
Skilled nursing, post-acute care, non-acute care, home health, rehab, care continuum, continuum of care, hospice, healthcare human resources
April 14th, 2021
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New OSHA Compliance: Training Healthcare Staff on Hazardous Chemicals
To better protect workers from hazardous chemicals, the U.S. Department of Labor’s OSHA has revised its Hazard Communication Standard to align with the United Nations’ Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS). While the original Hazard Communication Standard, HCS 1983, was commonly referred to as the “Employee Right to Know,” the revised standard now provides for the “Employee Right to Understand.”
April 14th, 2021
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Hiring the Right People in Healthcare
Turnover and retention are a growing problem for organizations across the continuum of care. Increased volume demands on our healthcare system mean that organizations cannot afford to waste time hiring the wrong people. Two of our partners, Assess Systems and NurseCompetency, help care organizations improve their hiring processes and identify and assess better potential candidates.
April 13th, 2021
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Improving Healthcare Compliance Through Education and Training
HCCS has helped us propel our compliance training and other online education programs into the 21st century,” Kay says. “I’ve seen enough of the other courses to know that if you do compliance training online, HCCS does it better than anyone else.”
April 13th, 2021
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Healthcare Leader Rounding with a Purpose: Collecting and Sharing Information
Leader rounds should not be done merely as a way to follow protocol; they should be done with a purpose. Leaders should perform rounds to collect actionable information from patients and staff and to promote a “people-centered” culture across the organization.
April 13th, 2021
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Five Steps for Teaching Each Clinical Judgment Competency for Nursing
Teaching a clinical judgment competency for nursing students and new nurses is far more effective if you use an overall process that is systematic and formalized. Caputi offers five useful steps to teach individual clinical judgment competencies