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The Rewards and Challenges of Focusing on Care Quality Documentation

Convincing providers of the “business case” for quality can be difficult in our current environment. However, there are several initiatives currently underway at the medical group and provider levels which include a “pay for performance” component aimed at providing financial incentives to improve quality.

April 01, 2021

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Revenue Cycle Issues Make Provider Enrollment an Even Bigger Issue in Healthcare

Traditionally, hospitals, healthcare organizations, and medical groups have viewed provider enrollment in health plans as a back-office function, lacking strategic importance. More recently however, a number of changes in the industry have caused this function to be viewed in a much more important light.

April 01, 2021

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Hospital Safety is Improving: The Reduction in Healthcare-Acquired Conditions

Enormous efforts are being made to improve patient safety, and recent surveys show signs that hospital-acquired conditions (HACs) are decreasing nationwide.

April 01, 2021

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Is Your Organization Working with Outdated Succession Management Strategies?

While most healthcare companies are devoting resources to succession planning and leadership development, they are failing to yield benefits from their efforts. More than half of hospitals surveyed say they are unprepared to replace leadership roles.

April 01, 2021

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Are You Ready for the Transition to Value-Based Healthcare?

The next big change in the healthcare industry is the move to Value-Based Healthcare. Value-Based Healthcare (VBH) is the delivery of evidence-based treatments through which providers are compensated based on improved patient outcomes.

April 01, 2021

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It’s Time to Automate Provider-Payor Transactions

Some industry experts report that healthcare provider practices can save an average of $7.21 per payment by switching from manual to automated remittance and payment processing.

April 01, 2021

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Consumers Need to Be Educated About the Financial Side of Healthcare

What may have been a lone voice highlighting the need for consumer-centered financial information in the first decade of the new century has now been joined by a booming chorus in 2016.

April 01, 2021

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Future Of Skilled Nursing Facilities: Challenges & Opportunities

Read about the many things that will continue to be big challenges and opportunities for the furture of skilled nursing facilities, from HealthStream.

April 01, 2021

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Developing New Nurse Leaders is Critical for Healthcare: Infographic

Inforgraphic for New Nurse Leadership development

April 01, 2021

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Six Things You Need to Know About End of Life Care

Our healthcare model pushes to extend life, even if it comes at a high cost and sacrifices the quality of the patient’s remainder of life. These six observations focus on the latest developments surrounding care at the end of life.

April 01, 2021

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Six Ways Healthcare Leaders Can Be More Effective During Staff Rounding: eBook Excerpt

Leader rounds on staff 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 and to promote a “people-centered” culture across the organization. While several strategies can make rounds more purposeful, a key driver is effective communication.

April 01, 2021

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Leadership Development is a Growing Concern in Healthcare

Healthcare providers are functioning in a landscape that seems to be reshaped on a daily basis. While attempting to adjust to the explosion of healthcare reform, new regulations, performance standards, payment structures, ever-changing technology, and myriad other requirements, there remains the need to provide care to patients – and to do it perfectly every time.

April 01, 2021

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Select and Develop Healthcare Staff with Science-Based Tools

Healthcare organizations can improve their staff, culture, and outcomes with scientifically-developed behavioral assessment tools for hiring and for organizational development.

April 01, 2021

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CPR Skills Are Being Expanded to Airport Travelers

There’s a new way for people to learn how to save lives at a number of airports across the country. It is now possible to learn and practice Hands-Only CPR, a short process that takes just a few minutes; kiosks in five airports provide quick lessons and allow learners to practice via a video touch-screen and a kiosk-attached CPR manikin.

April 01, 2021

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Physicians: Provider Enrollment Must Go Digital

As healthcare organizations hire providers, they must enroll the providers with payers; there is also an increasing expectation to shorten the onboarding times. Proper and efficient provider enrollment is the key to providers’ participation with insurance plans.

April 01, 2021

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Physicians: Keeping Current When It Comes To CME

Continuing medical education (CME) in the U.S. is regulated by both state medical boards and specialty boards. All states require CME for license registration, and most states require CME for license renewal.

April 01, 2021

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Five Tips for Managing Employed Physicians

Physicians often lead the team that surrounds every patient, and we must integrate them into the patient experience in a way that enables the best patient outcomes.

April 01, 2021

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Questions Physicians Ask about 2016 Healthcare Trends

This post excerpts an article from the Q1 2016 Provider Advisor about 10 significant issues and trends currently facing physicians.

April 01, 2021

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Best Practices: Behavioral-Based Questions for Peer Interviewing (Part 3)

So, now you know the skill-based questions you’re going to ask, but what about questions to determine if the candidate is right for your organization’s culture? You should compile your own personalized, behavioral-based questions, incorporating your organization’s Standards of Performance.

April 01, 2021

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Best Practices: Behavioral-Based Questions for Peer Interviewing (Part 2)

So, now you know the skill-based questions you’re going to ask, but what about questions to determine if the candidate is right for your organization’s culture? You should compile your own personalized, behavioral-based questions, incorporating your organization’s Standards of Performance.

April 01, 2021