In the complicated world of healthcare, the journey from hiring a new provider to them seeing their first patient has potential delays that can cost an organization both time and money. This is where provider onboarding takes center stage.

Bayhealth is central and southern Delaware’s largest healthcare system. With numerous hospitals and satellite facilities, the non-profit system has more than 4,000 employees.

The current state of the healthcare system is placing immense stress on healthcare professionals, prompting many to leave the workforce prematurely. Healthcare staffing shortages have a serious trickle-down effect. They lead to heavier workloads, increased anxiety, and burnout for the remaining staff, which can negatively impact patient care and outcomes.

Nurses can have an especially difficult time balancing work and personal life because of the increased amount of physical and emotional stress that nurses experience.

In the complicated world of healthcare, the journey from hiring a new provider to them seeing their first patient has potential delays that can cost an organization both time and money. This is where provider onboarding takes center stage.

Today, U.S. maternal mortality rates are still unacceptably high, with the number of maternal deaths significantly surpassing those from all other highly developed countries. Approximately 700 deaths occur annually from pregnancy-related complications, and 50,000 women are injured every year during childbirth.

Traditional training methods to ensure quality and patient safety during surgeries and perioperative processes may not be the most effective way to train your surgical team, panelists said in a recent webinar we hosted.

Telehealth continues to expand as patients and physicians become more comfortable and the technology continues to improve. Discover why having a standardized telehealth provider privileging process is critical.

Patient access is the gateway not only to your system but also to your revenue cycle; the importance of our colleagues who are sitting at the front desks, who are taking scheduling calls, increases exponentially.

St. Elizabeth implements HealthStream’s Insights tool, designed specifically for healthcare organizations. The platform’s user-friendly interface empowered administrators to quickly identify and resolve issues without escalation, enabling managers and staff to focus more on patient care and less on manual reporting processes.

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.

Technology and automation can help your organization accurately and efficiently manage processes for policy and procedure management as well as conflict of interest disclosures. Both processes are complex and fraught with potential errors that can result in litigation or fines. HealthStream can help make both processes more efficient and less vulnerable to risk.

How CHRISTUS Hospital used HealthStream reports, education, and authoring as key components in their Journey to Nursing Excellence™

View our On-Demand webinar to learn more about Policy Manager and Conflict of Interest and how these programs can make your life easier.

HealthStream can help you build a culture of lifelong learning and provide the kind of CE that enhances recruitment and builds retention by offering thousands of titles and more than 40 certification preparation programs. The program provides reporting that makes it efficient to track all of your organizations' CE credits and uses AI to help identify critical gaps in knowledge and build a customized education program for each student.

Some hospitals and health systems require documentation of a certain number of admissions or consultations prior to granting privileges. Discover when and how case logs should be used to document competency.

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.

The healthcare industry is changing how it educates and develops employees to meet varying learning demands and likely workforce shortages. Here we discuss developments in the near future of interactive learning in healthcare.

Artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR), and personalization have promise for creating a new environment and greater success for healthcare workforce development. We envision a future where technology facilitates targeted development and helps clinicians reach their highest potential.

CredentialStream just keeps getting better! See how the recently released Privilege smart logic functionality will help improve clinical and non-clinical decision-making, reduce variability, and optimize patient care delivery.