On average, hospitals have 30% of all claims denied and an average of 35% of these denied claims are attributed to inaccurate patient identification or inaccurate/incomplete patient information.

The combination of an aging nursing population and not enough new nurses coming in to fill those roles plays a large part in today’s nursing shortage. With this nursing shortage there will come a shortage of nurse leaders.

Most reports on the opioid crisis in America focus on individuals who receive a prescription for an opioid pain killer and then become a victim of opioid dependence. But what about the issue of dependence that occurs within the walls of the hospital, connected to Drug Diversion?

Initiative Management enabled Hartford HealthCare (HHC) to consolidate their learning management into one LMS, and launch Epic throughout the health system.

If the amount of opioids prescribed per year were averaged out over each person living in the U.S., everyone would get about a two-week supply. What should clinicians and CMS do?

More importantly, just increasing the number of nurses isn’t going to be a solution. Healthcare is changing, and we are going to need nurses who can play different roles and have different skillsets.

Here are six of our most common resuscitation practice and certification tips for staff members who are challenged by arthritis in their hands or wrists, or are afflicted with carpal tunnel syndrome.

How can we protect nurses? A frequent answer is simply safety in numbers through adequate staffing, but thoughtful design of the patient care environment is also a key to prevention.

One in five hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries is readmitted within 30 days of discharge from an acute care setting at a cost of $2.6 billion annually; three quarters of these readmissions are potentially avoidable. Here are sic recommendations for improving healthcare for frail seniors.

Many organizations fail at vertical and horizontal alignment of goals, leaving employees confused as to what is expected of them, resulting in a lack of engagement in organizational goals and lack of positive outcomes.

Goal setting is one of the most important activities for any healthcare organization and one of the examples of smart goals in healthcare, from HealthStream.

The move to outpatient dominance requires that leaders adopt a new mindset when thinking about how healthcare is delivered. Following are several trends that may help advance your thinking and inform decision-making in your organization.

In this eBook we consider some of the potential threats facing healthcare organizations and learn from leaders who have first-hand experience in surmounting these challenges.

While seeking to address the issue of healthcare staff turnover, it is imperative to identify exactly the factors contributing to this phenomenon. Various qualitative studies worldwide have surveyed some common reasons for staff turnover in hospitals.

As hospitals take on more at-risk contracts in the value-based payment era, it is increasingly important that financial officers understand HCC capture and how the health status of contracted populations is calculated. Appropriately documenting and coding a patient’s full illness burden is essential to the financial health of hospitals.

The time has come to advance the practice of registered nurses to include care coordination and to manage the transition of patients between settings of care, from acute care to the many ambulatory settings and the community.

Healthcare organizations can use research about leadership to identify and sustain a pipeline of leadership talent across leadership roles. This article contains practical applications for enhancing your organization’s talent management capabilities:

When nurses learn that a mandatory training session has come up, mixed emotions usually occur. There can be excitement about something new, as well as grumbling about a tedious and time-consuming task. The latter response need not be a given.

Every healthcare organization wants to create an optimal experience for patients and visitors. While there are nuances involved in the way adults prefer to learn, the vast majority benefit from various learning models that employ variety and choice in their approaches.

Bethesda Health CFO Joanna Aquilina shares her belief that the key to achieving good patient and financial outcomes is strong physician relationships. She highlights the importance of every CFO’s commitment to this end.