Healthcare Management & Administration Blog

The Top Challenges for Healthcare Leaders in 2017

The HealthStream100 were asked to rate the degree (on a five-point scale) to which they believe selected healthcare issues may be significant challenges for healthcare leaders in 2017.

How Will MIPS and MACRA Affect Patient Satisfaction?

In our first installment of the Second Opinions Podcast, Dr. Miles Snowden, the Chief Medical Officer at TeamHealth, also shares his personal insights about MACRA, its effect on patient experience, and some upsides of the program.

A CNO Talks About the Future of Care and How Care Needs to Change

As a top leader at Mercy Health, Linda Knodel spends a good deal of her time preparing her organization for the healthcare industry of the future. She sees a need to better manage patient care, especially what is increasingly being delivered in the non-acute or home environment.

Will the New Administration Derail the Quality Payment Program? Podcast

In our first installment of the Second Opinions Podcast, Dr. Miles Snowden, the Chief Medical Officer at TeamHealth, also shares personal insight on the Quality Payment Program.

Focus on Employee Engagement to Help Improve Healthcare Outcomes: eBook

A healthcare organization with a highly engaged workforce will often experience multiple associated benefits. You have to measure employee engagement to know how you are doing and to identify specific areas where to focus your improvement efforts.

Focusing on Healthcare HR Processes Shouldn’t Obscure the Need for Strategic Thinking

Healthcare HR needs to take a step back, assess how HR processes align with organizational goals, and be more strategic in its thinking, ensuring that they are no longer seen as a necessary evil, but rather a vital department on which the organization relies.

HCCS Transitions to Responsive Courseware Template Design

HCCS Courseware has embraced responsive courseware design. This is a philosophy of interface creation for e-learning courseware, whereby the designer seeks to unify the user experience across all platforms.

HealthStream’s First Second Opinions Podcast Focuses on MACRA and MIPS

In our first installment of the Second Opinions Podcast, Dr. Miles Snowden, the Chief Medical Officer at TeamHealth, shares his personal insight on the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA), and what it means for physicians, hospitals, and consumers.

The Importance of Effective Communication in Nursing

Registered Nurse Nicole Kraut shares her experiences with HealthStream and how she believes effective communication is most important during patient interactions.

Healthcare Employee Development: You don’t have time to do it the old way!

Today’s healthcare employees face multiple demands—between ensuring competency and developing future leaders, they must accomplish much more in much less time.

Coaching Physicians Based on Their Performance: Vital Conversations

In order to improve outcomes at your healthcare organization, it may be necessary to coach your physicians. Determine the achievement level of the physician you are coaching and create an appropriate plan of action.

Four Ways to Improve Patient-Provider Communication

Poor communication can increase medical errors and hospital readmission rates for patients with chronic diseases such as congestive heart failure and diabetes as well as lead to misuse of medications.

Begin to Enhance Physician Performance with Coaching

Every physician leader is charged with achieving certain outcomes. Goals to reach those outcomes may include improving compliance in quality and safety measures, identifying new ways to deliver medical services, or perhaps growing a new service line.

Beyond Managing: Leadership for Healthcare Teams

Healthcare is becoming more complex and specialized, with increased demand for complex health services and fast adoption of new methods. These trends have forced providers take a multidisciplinary approach to healthcare, including a greater need for effective, integrative teams.

21st Century Cures Act: Sunshine Provisions at Risk in Last Minute Maneuvering

When the 21st Century Cures Act was first presented, it contained provisions which would have weakened the Physician Payment Sunshine Act, which was passed as part of the Affordable Care Act in 2010.