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Healthcare Trend Watch — Artificial Intelligence (AI) Dramatically Changing Healthcare

Artificial intelligence clearly has the potential to drive meaningful change at numerous points along the healthcare continuum. The most effective deployments of AI in the healthcare space will augment human capabilities, not replace them.

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What Is Nursing Informatics?

Nursing Informatics is a specialized area of nursing and branch of this profession that is seeing much growth. This blog post’s purpose is to be an elementary introduction to this burgeoning specialty.

April 01, 2021

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Healthcare Trend Watch — the Nursing Shortage Is Getting Worse

Hospitals continue to feel the financial pain stemming from the ongoing nursing shortage. Compounding the problem of a nursing shortage is a high turnover rate among new nurses.

April 01, 2021

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Healthcare Trend Watch — Physicians are in short supply, too

The looming physician shortage represents a dire situation for the state of healthcare in the U.S., as many experts predict that demand for health services will soon exceed the industry’s capacity to provide care.

April 01, 2021

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Retention Needs to Become a Major Ongoing Initiative in Healthcare

To combat excessive turnover, healthcare organizations must identify the myriad ways they can make employees more satisfied with their jobs to improve retention. This can have a significant impact on the industry’s financial outlook.

April 01, 2021

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10 Trends for 2019 That Are Redefining Care Across the Continuum – Part 3

This blog post, based on a webinar, examines several of the major trends that are redefining care across the continuum for 2019, from the widespread adoption of new technology to the need to focus on preventing burnout and enhancing workforce joy.

April 01, 2021

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Elevating Resuscitation Practice at Mercy Health—Lessons Learned (Part 3)

Mercy Health transitioned to resuscitation training from HealthStream to strive for excellence in resuscitation. Here are some lessons learned about value of resuscitation training for other disciplines, convenience, and certification tracking.

April 01, 2021

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Thou Shalt Not Withhold Efficient Credentialing—Bylaws Are NOT Written In Stone

Bylaws are a living document that must evolve at the same pace that regulatory standards and our health care environment evolves, as they contribute to ensuring that the most efficient processes, including credentialing, are in place within our organizations.

April 01, 2021

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Four Webinars Focused on Solutions to Clinical Development Challenges

HealthStream is committed to solving big healthcare problems, like those common in workforce learning, emergency diagnoses, and maternal health. Here are links to recorded HealthStream webinars about solving clinical development problems.

April 01, 2021

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Key Findings Snapshot -- 2018 Annual Medical Staff Credentialing Report-Part Two

In order to explore issues common in the medical staff credentialing process in more detail, a survey was conducted by VerityStream between December 2017 and January 2018. On a few key issues responses changed from the previous survey to the current survey.

April 01, 2021

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Elevating Resuscitation Practice at Mercy Health—Lessons Learned (Part 2)

Mercy Health transitioned to resuscitation training from HealthStream to strive for excellence in resuscitation. Here are some lessons learned about feedback, the pause function, and the no-no of multitasking during training.

April 01, 2021

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10 Trends for 2019 That Are Redefining Care Across the Continuum – Part 2

This blog post, based on a webinar, examines several of the major trends that are redefining care across the continuum for 2019, from staffing challenges and a new focus for healthcare organizations, to lowering the regulatory burden in healthcare.

April 01, 2021

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Three Key Trends Identified in the 2018 Annual Medical Staff Credentialing Report

The 2018 Annual Medical Staff Credentialing Survey identified big trends in terms of paperless credentialing, Automation of OPPE efforts, and general centralization and standardization of credentialing and privileging functions.

April 01, 2021

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Elevating Resuscitation Practice at Mercy Health

Mercy Health transitioned to resuscitation training from HealthStream to strive for excellence in resuscitation. The training program incorporates simulation-based technology that enhances the learner’s experience through active application of knowledge and performance critique tools.

April 01, 2021

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Rising patient populations, smaller workforce challenge hospice, palliative care providers

A rapidly growing senior population looking to age in place and receive end of life care away from healthcare institutions, is putting an increasing strain on the understaffed hospice and palliative care community.

April 01, 2021

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10 Trends for 2019 That Are Redefining Care Across the Continuum – Part 1

This blog post, based on a webinar, examines several of the major trends that are redefining care across the continuum for 2019, from demographics and the changing and growing senior population to increased M/A activity involving all care environments.

April 01, 2021

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ICD-10 Updates for 2018 Highlight Rising Importance of Proper HCC Data Capture

ICD-10 updates for 2018 reflect the increasingly important need to document and code Hierarchical Condition Categories (HCCs) properly.

April 01, 2021

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Suggestions for Making Healthcare Compliance More Engaging -- Part 2

When we try to keep healthcare compliance training as engaging as possible, it is more likely to succeed. That requires you to incorporate humor, use video wherever effective, explain concepts on a personal level, and tell stories that engage the learner.

April 01, 2021

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Effects of poor communication patterns between nurses & providers

Learn how the effects of poor communication in healthcare between nurses, healthcare professionals, and providers occur for a variety of reasons from HealthStream.

April 01, 2021

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Untangle the Complex Issue of Healthcare Compensation Management

Compensation is key to achieving three critical business outcomes: engagement, retention, and improved performance.

April 01, 2021