Care transitions from hospital stays to home or other care facilities increase the risk of healthcare mishaps, serious issues, and even adverse events. Here are some ways to avoid potential miscommunication and the ill impacts it can have.

Healthcare analytics has the potential to improve healthcare in ways we are only beginning to realize. Here are some of them that are already becoming reality.

COVID-19 has made healthcare transformation very important, and here are 5 leadership strategies CEOs have identified to implement transformational change in healthcare.

A new nurse’s first month on the job can be exciting and perilous, so it’s important that they, and their new employer, take a deliberate approach to those crucial early days of onboarding.

Nurse residency programs present both opportunities and challenges for new nurses, and so should be studied thoroughly to see if the program, and the provider, is the right fit. This blog post focuses on nurse residency program pros and cons.

A good peer interview nursing team will deploy a series of questions designed to learn about a candidate’s mental, emotional and physical state, helping them find the best fit for their unique situation.

Over the past three to five years, there has been an explosion of the development of CVOs in health systems, largely due to the proliferation of health systems. Here are five lessons learned from CVOs that operate successfully.

The new HealthStream Community is a direct response to requests from valued customers. You asked for on-demand information and resources for HealthStream products, and we’ve delivered. Learn how to use the new community and your network to get the most out of your HealthStream partnership.

Learn how the cost of hospital readmissions by definition is enormous and Medicare & CMS is working to reduce this amount, from HealthStream.

Home health nursing is one of the many career options available within the nursing profession. It is a choice for registered nurses (RNs), licensed practical nurses (LPNs), and nurse assistants (NAs). The educational requirements for a home health nurse are dependent on individual nursing certifications.

Whereas purposeful rounding was a mechanical process in its early days, typically relying on rigid requirements and a strict set of questions, nurses have recently become more practical and flexible in achieving it, leading to a potential for greater success and better outcomes.

As medicine evolves, new types of doctors and nurses are emerging to meet our system’s changing needs. In some cases, these clinicians are in new specialties that didn’t exist until recently, and demand for some of these physicians is already high.

The reality is that negative ER experiences don’t necessarily have to happen—we already know some of the solutions that can be put in place to improve most visits to the ER. Here are a few of them.

HealthStream covers why it is an important that health care staff and credentialing professionals learn about establishing requirements for basic life support.\n

While much of healthcare is in flux, the importance of helping patients to understand their financial responsibilities remains constant. Effective communication strategies and processes remain the best way to optimize revenue cycle and collections.

Using the various electronic medical record systems that are now ubiquitous in healthcare for collecting health information across an organization, nurse informaticists are managing, interpreting, and communicating data with a primary purpose to improve the quality and outcomes of patient care.

While communication is extremely important in every healthcare environment, the Emergency Room stands out as one where communication success is critical, especially when saving lives can be a matter of quick decisions and responses within minutes or hours.

Peruse our review of best practices related to defining and formatting clinical privileges from AI to mentoring in internal medicine, from HealthStream.\n

Managing the credentialing process can be tedious, but it is essential. The right processes and software can help organizations to manage credentialing efficiently.

There is tremendous room for improvement in how healthcare operates. The lack of efficiency in the industry is a waste of resources that could be devoted to better care and helping more people and may even contribute to poor outcomes. Here are some suggestions to improve healthcare efficiency.