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Five Ways Virtual Reality is Improving Healthcare

Virtual Reality (VR) allows one to “enter” an alternative and feel as if they are in the virtual world they see. Over the past decade developers have expanded the capabilities of VR headsets and created programs that are now being used in healthcare.

April 01, 2021

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Healthcare Credentialing Verification and Merger-Acquisition Due Diligence

Given the trend toward healthcare consolidation through mergers and acquisitions, we wanted to understand the impact these deals have on a medical staff office (MSO), and how to manage combining multiple privileging and credentialing processes.

April 01, 2021

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How Data Insights Are Improving Training—Especially in Healthcare

Recognizing the role data plays in training is good, but knowing how to utilize it to provide not only quality training, but programs that are tailored to organizational goals and employee needs and skill sets is crucial.

April 01, 2021

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Retain Healthcare Employees by Offering a Path to Leadership Roles

Leadership development programs should identify, develop, and retain employees who demonstrate leadership potential and performance to create a pipeline of candidates and support future succession planning needs.

April 01, 2021

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Customer or Patient: the Word You Use and the Matter of Trust

Are they customers or patients? Dr. John Boornazian explains the difference. People may approach the continuum of care as customers, but when they develop trusting relationships with healthcare professionals, they become patients.

April 01, 2021

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Reducing Reimbursement Risk: Communication and Training

Training for consistency and accuracy can improve collections, reimbursement, and denial rates. When patient access staff communicate early with patients about financial responsibility, they also maximize upfront collections. Educating clinical staff will reduce reimbursement risk.

April 01, 2021

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New Compliance and Ethics Program Requirements for Nursing Facilities

Nursing facility providers are now required to design and implement a multi-component compliance and ethics program, effective as of November 28, 2016, but with an implementation process that spans a three year period.

April 01, 2021

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How Gamification Enhances & Changes Healthcare HR Practices

Gamification can create value for healthcare companies and providers by creating a more robust, inclusive employee review process, as well as supporting other HR-oriented improvements.

April 01, 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 01, 2021

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Reimbursement Risks: Patient Identity Errors Cost Hospitals Billions

Patient identity errors create an estimated eight billion dollars in annual cost in healthcare. Mismatched patient identifiers result in denials and are also linked to catastrophic adverse medical deaths, medication errors and unnecessary procedures. Training is an important solution.

April 01, 2021

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The Value of Gamification In Healthcare

Healthcare organizations can be slow to implement workplace changes, but innovative technology such as gamification is helping them succeed by enabling employees to obtain and retain crucial information quickly and easily.

April 01, 2021

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Seven Best Practices to Improve Patient Outcomes in the Emergency Department

While there is no simple answer or one-size-fits-all solution for improving ED operations and flow, here are some proven principles to consider to enhance efficiency and reduce overall turnaround times.

April 01, 2021

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Ensuring Patient Safety – The Ultimate Survivor Game – Part 2

Strategies to assess competency and address gaps in knowledge with preceptors and education can be an effective means of improving patient safety.

April 01, 2021

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Henry Ford Health System Selects COI-SMART to Improve Conflict of Interest Management and Compliance

COI-SMART, from HCCS, has enabled Henry Ford Health System to realize its forward-looking vision for a Conflict of Interest (COI) management solution that automates processes, streamlines procedures, saves money, and reduces risk.

April 01, 2021

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Using Gamification to Improve Nurse Training & Career Development

Getting, and keeping, nurses is one of the major challenges in healthcare today. Can gamification help by providing an innovative platform that not only encourages growth and development but also fosters loyalty and teamwork?

April 01, 2021

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Focus on OB Health and Risk by Using Data to Improve Fetal Monitoring

Strengthening EFM competency is vital for improving obstetrics care quality and reducing risk. The EFM Series’ data analytics allows clinical leaders to leverage HealthStream’s control center technology to determine learning performance and identify risk or need for remediation.

April 01, 2021

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Four Benefits of Using Echo to Automate and Standardize Healthcare Credentialing, Licensing, and Privileging

Shifting from the manual completion of thousands of applications to doing everything electronically is a drastic, time-intensive change, but it reaps huge rewards. vRad staff identified four major areas where they noted significant change in the first couple of years

April 01, 2021

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Our Partner nThrive Wins Brandon Hall Gold Award—HealthStream Technology Plays Key Role

nThrive and Vermont HITEC, in conjunction with HealthStream, have been awarded the Gold Award for the Best Unique or Innovative Workforce Management Program by the Brandon Hall Group’s Excellence Awards.

April 01, 2021

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Resuscitation Coaching Best Practices to Improve Clinician Competency

The following online resuscitation training best practices for coaching have been found to help organizations as they pilot, adopt, or renew a HeartCode program that exemplifies a strong commitment to quality CPR.

April 01, 2021

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Four Eye-Opening Trends in Non-Acute Care

As the above trends show, the non-acute world is in flux. Providers in this sector are struggling with increasing demand due to an aging population, as well as other related and connected challenges. Five years from now, non-acute care will look very different than it does today.

April 01, 2021