Healthcare Management & Administration Blog

The Essentials for an Effective Onboarding Program for New Nurses

Assessing and developing nurses for the ability to think critically has never been more important. This article and excerpt focus on education focused on critical thinking and its interplay with learning and assessment technology.

Celebrate Revenue Integrity Week with New Strategies to Boost Revenue Cycle Integrity and Performance

Join HealthStream and our partner nThrive in celebrating Revenue Integrity Week by incorporating these seven new strategies to boost revenue cycle integrity and performance in healthcare.

Are We Successfully Training New Nurses to Think Like a Nurse?

The challenge for nursing schools to teach their learners how to think like a nurse is a significant one. A lack of judgment skills may inhibit a new nurse’s ability to recognize clinical deterioration, which can result in compromised patient safety

Why Employees Leave Healthcare Jobs for Better Work-Life Balance

Healthcare jobs can make the flexibility demands of a modern life too difficult to manage, unless they are paying attention to unhappy employees and giving them some options to adjust such components as schedules, travel demands, and commute issues.

How to Ensure Your Healthcare Training Meets All Relevant Federal and State Training Requirements

Up to now, it has been very difficult for healthcare organizations to be certain their clinicians and other staff were receiving training that complied with every applicable federal and state regulation. hStream Compass is a solution for this common problem.

What Does It Mean To Be The Source Of Truth for Credentialing Data?

What does it really mean to be the trustworthy Source of Truth for credentialing data? Here are a few questions to ask yourself before declaring your system to be the Source of Truth or feeding your data to a downstream system.

Some Healthcare Employees Depart Jobs to Take Better Care of Themselves

Some healthcare jobs can be hazardous to an employee’s health. If healthcare organizations are not paying attention to employees’ needs or to improving the workload and environment, they may find themselves having big problems with retention.

How To Create & Manage A Comprehensive Coding Audit

A comprehensive coding audit requires thoughtful preparation, including identifying its goals and scope, in order to achieve the desired results.

When Poor Management is the Reason a Healthcare Employee Leaves

To have an impact on healthcare turnover, organizations should ensure that their managers are doing a good job and treating their direct reports fairly. In many cases, it’s true that people don’t leave companies as often as they leave managers.

Sometimes a Healthcare Employee Leaves Due to Something about the Job Itself

Many people leave healthcare jobs because they dislike something about the position. Doing a better job with job previews and setting expectations is important during the hiring process.

Decluttering Works for Healthcare Meetings as Well!

Think about what you can do to clear meeting clutter. It not only saves some trees, but helps to make meetings, like those of a Credentials Committee, much more productive.

The Challenge of Translating Healthcare Regulations into Training Curricula

Providers across the healthcare continuum need to be certain they are compliant with all the regulations that apply to them as well as their individual clinicians.

The What, Where, & Why Of Coding Audits

Understanding the what, where, and why of coding audits provides a deeper understanding of what they are designed to do and the many benefits they offer to healthcare providers and systems.

Recent 2019 Blog Posts about the Healthcare Continuum from HCCS and HealthStream

HealthStream and HCCS, A HealthStream Company recently published numerous blog posts related to the healthcare continuum. We’ve collected and compiled links to them here.

Celebrate National Nurses Week 2019 with a Renewed Focus on Training and Continuing Education

As we celebrate Nurses Week 2019, take a look at the facility’s training and continuing education platforms to see what’s working, what’s not and what’s missing to help nurses and all caregivers do their best work.