Healthcare Trend Watch — Healthcare Costs Are Difficult for Many Patients

The finances involved in healthcare are becoming more and more of a problem. A strong patient trend is that many people cannot afford to get sick because the care costs too much

Responding to a Conflict of Interest Violation: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Fires Former Acclaimed Medical Director

How an organization responds to a serious conflict of interest is very important and can have a great deal of influence on its reputation after a violation becomes public knowledge. Here’s how Memorial Sloan Kettering is responding to its lapses.

Emergency and Urgent Care Services Adapt to Greater Presence in the Healthcare Continuum

Freestanding emergency rooms and urgent-care clinics meet the consumer demand for convenience, but they cannot be all things to all people—therefore education and outreach are in order.

Five Assisted Living and Senior Living Workforce Challenges for 2019

Like many areas of the care continuum, assisted living and other senior residential care environments currently are under significant workforce pressures, from an operational and financial direction.

Uncovering Healthcare Conflicts of Interest (COIs) May Require Creativity

To uncover healthcare conflicts of interest that must be addressed, Sacks suggests that compliance officers use standard surveys and questionnaires, supplemented by the Open Payments Database and Google.

How to Promote Lifelong Learning Within Your Healthcare Organization

A recent HealthStream webinar, “Lifelong Learning: The Gift that keeps on Giving,” focused extensively on why lifelong learning is necessary in a clinical environment and suggested ways to promote lifelong learning within an organization.

Healthcare Trend Watch—Amazon Disrupting Healthcare at Many Levels

Dysfunction in the healthcare industry makes it susceptible for disruption from outside sources who are not tied to the current way of doing things. One good example of this is Amazon’s recent announcement of expansion into the healthcare sector.

Common Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) Challenges in 2019

Despite the vigor of the Ambulatory Surgery Center market, this care sector is facing some significant challenges in the years ahead, like much of the rest of healthcare. Some of the challenges are discussed briefly here.

Five New Articles Address the Future of Healthcare

Here are links to five recent HealthStream articles that discuss where healthcare is headed, Conflict of Interest (COI) developments, Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Healthcare, Compliance, and the next wave of ICD-10.

Using Artificial Intelligence to Enhance Clinical Development

In the first-ever, AI-based critical thinking assessment for nursing, a nurse will use a chat interface, powered by artificial intelligence, to identify a problem, indicate what led them to identify the problem, as well as the immediate actions and rationale, as well as level of urgency.

10 Healthcare Trends to Watch in 2019

HealthStream’s Robin L. Rose looks ahead at 2019, with an eye to big picture trends that could have a significant impact on how we provide and experience care.

Unacknowledged Conflicts of Interest Create a Big Problem: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Avoiding and preventing conflict of interest (COI) is an important focus of healthcare compliance. When the medical director at a prominent research hospital failed to disclose his strong industry ties, it created a major headache for everyone involved.

Where We Stand with Healthcare Conflict of Interest (COI) Compliance

What role does healthcare leadership play in conflict of interest (COI) compliance? When support from the very top does not exist, COI compliance becomes inconsistent, with some departments excelling and others falling behind.

Recent ICD-10 Updates Reflect Push Toward Improving Outpatient and Ambulatory Documentation

The 2018 coding changes for ICD-10 highlight and attempt to address, as they were perhaps meant to, the disparity in data capture in outpatient and ambulatory Clinical Documentation Improvement, or CDI, efforts and their inpatient counterparts.

Lifelong Learning Has a Purpose Throughout a Healthcare Career

A recent HealthStream webinar, “Lifelong Learning: The Gift that keeps on Giving,” offered three examples of healthcare team members at different stages of their careers and discussed some specific learning needs or activities that might be recommended for their particular profiles.