Healthcare Management & Administration Blog

Hot Topics for 2019 in Healthcare Compliance: Part 2

Where healthcare compliance professionals spend their time is changing as accrediting bodies and regulators find new areas that merit investigation. This blog post comes from our Part 2 round-up of important topics covered at the HCCA 2018 Enforcement Conference.

The Results of a Successful Resuscitation Training Program for the Care Continuum

Though improving resuscitation success is an important purpose in itself, a high quality training program has additional benefits for the care continuum in terms of learner confidence and regulatory reporting efficiency.

The Commitment to Conflict of Interest (COI) Management Is Mostly Strong across U.S. Healthcare

HCCS recently surveyed 281 healthcare compliance leaders about their organizations’ COI programs. One of the survey’s goals was to establish an industry-wide picture of the commitment to COI management and examine it across multiple program variables.

Performance-Guided Learning Can Improve Employee Retention & Boost Performance

An employee education plan based on performance-guided learning will strengthen engagement and retention by providing staff with a thoughtful, customized and effective way to achieve their professional goals.

How to Navigate the Healthcare Regulatory Training Maze – Article

Making sure your providers are receiving every bit of the learning they need can seem impossible to address in in its entirety. This article examines how meeting regulatory requirements for mandatory education doesn’t have to be a headache.

The Patient Financial Experience Requires More Focus than Ever Before in Healthcare

Patients’ impressions, especially around cost and perceived value, are having an increasing effect on healthcare providers’ bottom lines.

The Opportunity to Standardize Healthcare Conflict Of Interest (COI) Management

Our survey of healthcare compliance leaders found that there’s room for standardization in the way healthcare organizations address COI compliance. Here are three findings relevant to the current fragmented ways many hospitals work to uncover and eliminate conflicts of interest.

Six Essential Elements of a Successful Resuscitation Program for the Care Continuum

Resuscitation success is a goal that organizations across the healthcare continuum are going to have to work harder to achieve. Using hospitals’ experience as a template is going to help them get there sooner.

Better Onboarding Impacts Outcomes – the Case for Nurse Residency Programs

Onboarding is the time to start new nurses off with a strong foundation by ensuring they have good mentorship, correct expectations, and a proper support system.

How Healthcare Organizations Say Conflict of Interest (COI) Management Needs to Improve

HCCS—A HealthStream Company recently surveyed healthcare leaders about the COI compliance programs in their organizations. Here’s how these leaders thought their COI Management processes needed to be improved.

How Performance-Guided Learning Can Support Operational Goals

Taking a performance guided learning approach to employee education has great potential in the healthcare setting, thanks to its ability to customize programs and meet employees where they are in terms of learning needs.

Understanding Credentialing Vs. Privileging as They Relate to Resuscitation Courses

Credentialing and privileging are two very different things when it comes to resuscitation training; are your medical professionals properly prepared for emergency situations?

Challenges for Resuscitation across the Care Continuum

Healthcare organizations across the care continuum need to increase their efforts to improve resuscitation readiness and competency. Here are some reasons doing so is more difficult in a non-hospital environment.

Three Suggestions for Improving Healthcare Conflict of Interest (COI) Management

To establish a baseline for COI compliance programs, HCCS surveyed 281 U.S. healthcare compliance leaders about their programs. Using the results, here are three suggestions HCCS offers to improve COI Management effectiveness across the healthcare industry.

Preventing a Cascade of Nursing Actions That Can Lead to Errors

The first step in preventing adverse patient events is to ensure that there is a culture of safety in hospitals and organizations. Adverse events need to be viewed as both a learning opportunity and a new opportunity to use a systems approach to patient safety and error prevention.