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.

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.

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.

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 Verity between December 2017 and January 2018. On a few key issues responses changed from the previous survey to the current survey.

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.

Improving Healthcare Outcomes Through Workforce Development—Five New Articles

HealthStream’s vision is to improve the quality of healthcare by assessing and developing the people who deliver care, demonstrated in articles ranging from resuscitation training and older adult care to workplace bullying, health literacy, and lifelong learning in healthcare.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Untangle the Complex Issue of Healthcare Compensation Management

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

The Impact of Poor Communication Patterns between Nurses and Providers

There is a strong correlation between the communication skills of healthcare providers and patient health outcomes. Poor communication between nurses and providers can occur for a variety of reasons, either intentionally or unintentionally.

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.

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.

Potential Paths Forward for Lessening the Healthcare Regulatory Burden

Recommended regulation reduction solutions are wide in scope and fairly ambitious, as far as what the government should do. One starting place is to admit regulation’s negative impacts on outcomes.