Healthcare Management & Administration Blog

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.

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.

Changing Times May Lead to Disruptive Transitions for Non-Acute Care

Harris stresses the importance for non-acute and post-acute care to re-engineer processes and embrace technology and collaboration to find new ways in which to support community-based services.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

What Is Gamification And Why Does It Matter In Healthcare?

Gamification is taking many industries, including healthcare, by storm as it makes onboarding and ongoing employee training and performance more effective and relevant to existing and new generations of workers.

Healthcare Hiring Tools and Recruiting Solutions for Revenue Cycle Staffing

Our industry keeps growing, needing more employees, just as demographics make them harder to find. That means we have to be more creative in finding healthcare hiring tools that can serve as solutions to our people shortage.

Quality Payment Program: Don’t Leave Money on the Table

For MIPS, submitting even one measure under the “pick your pace” provision, will prevent practices from leaving money on the table. Many older physicians practice in small groups and may choose to retire early or seek the shelter of large group practices.

The Imperative for Providing Culturally Sensitive Nursing Care

Regardless of an individual’s cultural beliefs and practices, nurses have an inherent obligation to provide equal and ethical care to all patients.