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.

Six Benefits of Automating Healthcare Checklist Management

Even though paper checklists help to ensure consistency, prevent errors, and create a standard of performance for all employees, there are problems inherent to relying on them for recordkeeping. Here are six benefits of automation with HealthStream Checklist Management.

Changing patient population and reimbursement issues challenge skilled nursing, long-term care providers

Long-term care and skilled nursing facilities are facing increased competition and scrutiny, but through staffing enhancements and other adaptations can improve services and enhance operational excellence.

Moving to Personalized Development Plans for Healthcare Clinicians

The components of HealthStream’s Clinical Development Solution work together in pursuit of one goal—to optimize both business and clinical outcomes by engaging the clinician in a personalized competency and career development journey.

Eliminate Paperwork to Create a More Valuable Healthcare Checklist Experience: Case Study

Streamline your approach to checklists by using a checklist automation tool. Nancy Warthman of Alternate Solutions Health Network (ASHN) explains how her organization utilizes HealthStream’s Checklist Management tool to standardize and document validation of skills and track completions.

Best Practices for Creating a Healthcare Compliance Training Program

Effective compliance training that incorporates the best practices contained in this blog post and the more extensive article on which it is based can help employees understand their obligations and make every staff member an extension of the compliance team.

Recent ICD-10 Updates Focus on Better Data Collection

The focus on Hierarchical Condition Categories (HCCs) for the 2018 ICD-10 Updates emphasizes the growing need for more thorough documentation around the treatment of chronically ill patients.

Important Healthcare Revenue Cycle Risks to Avoid in 2019

A recent article in RevCycle Intelligence had much to say about the future outlook for healthcare revenue cycle management, especially the most prominent organizational risks for 2019.

Physician Groups, Clinics Will Continue To Battle Administrative & Financial Burdens in 2019

Physician groups and clinics continue to face enormous challenges around administrative tasks and reimbursement. What can they do to streamline operations and ensure less bad debt?

Four Ways Healthcare Managers Can Encourage Lifelong Learning Among Their Team

A recent HealthStream webinar, “Lifelong Learning: The Gift that keeps on Giving,” focused extensively on the value of lifelong learning in a clinical environment and address the responsibility of managers to encourage lifelong learning among staff.

Eliminating Paperwork to Create a More Valuable Healthcare Checklist Experience

Alternate Solutions Health Network (ASHN) uses HealthStream’s award-winning Checklist Management to automate, standardize, and document validation of skills and track completions.

Responding to the Opioid Epidemic—Taking on the Challenge Begins with You

Like for any emergent disease, as healthcare professionals, we do what we know to do about opioid abuse disorder. Prevent the disease from ever happening and use evidence-based practices to treat those affected. Given the enormity of the problem, we conclude it will take a long time and great effort to effect change.

Five Most Popular Care Continuum Blog Posts Published in 2018 by HealthStream

Here are the fiver most popular HealthStream blog posts published in 2018 focused on the care continuum.

Four Most Popular Provider Solutions Blog Posts Published in 2018 by HealthStream

Here are the four most popular HealthStream blog posts published in 2018 focused on provider solutions.