Healthcare Management & Administration Blog

How to Get and Give the Most from Hourly Rounding

Whereas purposeful rounding was a mechanical process in its early days, typically relying on rigid requirements and a strict set of questions, nurses have recently become more practical and flexible in achieving it, leading to a potential for greater success and better outcomes.

The Importance of Building Competence in Change Management

Most of our focus on competency in healthcare is on clinical and leadership competencies; however, given the rapid rate of change in healthcare, it also makes sense to ensure that your organization is competent in change itself.

The ABCs of Credentialing and Life Support Certification

Credentialing professionals need to know about establishing and maintaining requirements for basic life support. It is an important patient safety concern that health care staff and physicians can recognize and immediately respond to an emergency.

What Is Cultural Competence in Healthcare?

Now more than ever, healthcare professionals and everyone supporting them in the industry need to work to break down any barriers to care. One way many organizations are making an effort to meet more patients’ needs is to focus on cultural competence.

Nurse Retention: Where Are We Now & Strategies for Moving Forward

A variety of factors are and will continue to impact nurse retention and drive nursing shortages. Creative solutions and new partnerships may help mitigate the impact on healthcare

Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Healthcare

Artificial intelligence (AI) research and application within medicine is growing rapidly. In 2016, healthcare AI projects attracted more investment than AI projects within any other sector of the global economy.

New Tools for Achieving High Quality CPR

New educational tools educate hospital and other healthcare providers on the latest guidance on CPR using streamlined education that can save time and money in the certification process while ensuring every student is receiving training on high-quality CPR

Addressing Challenges in Medical Billing

While much of healthcare is in flux, the importance of helping patients to understand their financial responsibilities remains constant. Effective communication strategies and processes remain the best way to optimize revenue cycle and collections.

Improving Communication in the Emergency Room

While communication is extremely important in every healthcare environment, the Emergency Room stands out as one where communication success is critical, especially when saving lives can be a matter of quick decisions and responses within minutes or hours.

How Nursing Informatics Benefits Quality Outcomes

Using the various electronic medical record systems that are now ubiquitous in healthcare for collecting health information across an organization, nurse informaticists are managing, interpreting, and communicating data with a primary purpose to improve the quality and outcomes of patient care.

Developing Leading Edge Knowledge Assessments for Healthcare Requires a Rigorous Process

HealthStream’s assessments are based on best practices for test development, including meeting psychometric standards as well as federal directives outlined in the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures.

How to Handle Employees When Improving Outcomes Requires New and Changing Duties for Staff

Healthcare organizations are perpetually seeking out best practices for every aspect of clinical care and for management issues. Harvesting those best practices is a relatively simple process, but operationalizing those practices typically proves more elusive.

11 Clinical Privileging Best Practices

It is a great time to review best practices related to defining and formatting clinical privileges. Do you identify any gaps in how your organization handles privileging? If you do identify gaps, you should put a plan in place to address them!

Provider Credentialing Is Going to Change Significantly

Provider credentialing is expected to change significantly and be redefined as a result of standardization, consolidation, and the increasing importance of quality metrics.

Balancing Workforce Efficiency in Healthcare with Patient Needs and Care

There is tremendous room for improvement in how healthcare operates. The lack of efficiency in the industry is a waste of resources that could be devoted to better care and helping more people and may even contribute to poor outcomes. Here are some suggestions to improve healthcare efficiency.