Healthcare Management & Administration Blog

Lifelong Learning in Nursing Is Vital

Learn why an interest in lifelong learning in nursing is considered to be an element of professionalism for anyone working in healthcare, from HealthStream.

Committing to Patient-Centered Care and Patient Safety: Podcast

What started [the move to patient advisors and patient-centered care] was a story from a staff member whose family member, her younger brother, had been a patient in our hospital.

Creating a Culture of Safety – A Leadership Alert

The Joint Commission has found inadequate safety culture to be a significant contributing factor to adverse outcomes. To support this finding, it recently emphasized the need for healthcare leadership to create an effective culture of safety.

How Will Your Medical Practice Respond to the MACRA?

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has finalized its plans to implement the sweeping payment reforms called for under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) of 2015.

Better Data Can Help Some of the Problems in Healthcare Hiring: Three Blueprint Examples

It does not take a whole lot of complex workforce data to begin measuring staffing areas and improving hiring decisions that are directly tied to quality of care, outcomes, and cost management.

Podcast: Cultures and Strategies That Support Patient Safety

The number of topics to cover when on-boarding new employees can be dizzying, but a changing healthcare environment makes it increasingly important to make sure that patient safety and quality expectations remain an important part of the on-boarding process.

Healthcare Learning Innovation: Reducing OB Risk with Simulation and Gaming

HealthStream and MedStar-SiTEL have developed an OB Risk program that uses interactive learning to help ensure competency. The OB modules contain gaming and micro-simulation techniques increase learning retention while developing critical thinking skills.

Improving Provider Data Management Through Consolidation Creates Success

BJC’s story of operating a single database is not unheard of, but their system is more advanced than what most healthcare organizations use, making them stand out as a leader in the industry.

Patient Safety In Nursing: The Nurse's Role

Learn how patient safety in nursing depends on understanding how and why we are treating patients and how that treatment affects our patients, from HealthStream.

Using the Healthcare Contact Center to Reduce Readmissions: Case Study

A leading Midwest Health Network was fined $2.5 million for excessive preventable readmissions. The contact center became an intentional, centralized resource for readmission reduction.

Three Perspectives on Public Safety Through the Lens of Trauma

Public safety is a particularly pointed issue for orthopedic trauma surgeons. Any solutions that can be tried in an effort to reduce the awful impact of bad decision-making should be considered.

Creating an Always Experience Requires Leadership: Healthcare Industry Perspective

In this complex world of healthcare, where leaders and staff are overwhelmed and begging us to “not add one more thing to their plates,” what is a coach to do when a CEO asks, “How can we help our staff and providers embrace the need for the ‘Always Patient Experience?’”

Confidence Plays a Key Role in the Patient Experience: Infographic

Confidence in healthcare is important to both patients and providers. Patients need to have confidence in the care they receive, while providers need to be confident that they can keep their patients safe and help them achieve their desired outcome.

The Future of Healthcare Training Will Be Customized and Efficient

Training has got to be delivered where people can absorb it at the time when they want, and it needs to be in context. Training education in the next five years also has to be very digestible.

Six Best Practices for Automated Provider Enrollment Programs: Case Study

The PhyMed provider enrollment team was able to break out of a cycle of low system utilization, excessive write-offs, and poor revenue cycle management. The following list of best practices recaps the action items that led to PhyMed’s having a more effective program.