Education is key to creating patient-centered fiscal management practices. Contact HealthStream today to learn more about how to provide staff with the knowledge and skills they need to support a patient-centered model while reducing denials and costly reimbursement errors.

Learn 7 strategies for adopting The Joint Commission’s Appointment Period Change from two to three years without compromising patient safety.

Soft skills are essential in healthcare. Providers with good soft skills can improve a patient’s perception of their experience and improve the quality of the workplace for employees. Be sure to include soft skills when setting learning goals.

Given that there are more nurses than any other profession in healthcare, nurses should play a larger role in creating healthcare policy. This blog posts looks at why and how the policy change influence of nurses can be improved, as well as ways it is already felt.

Early retirements, a pandemic and ongoing nursing shortages have combined to reduce the pipeline of nurse leaders. HealthStream has tools to help you identify potential new leaders, nurture existing leaders and provide education solutions that will help you create and continue to build a strong nursing leadership presence in your organization.

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.

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.

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.

Managing DEI requires more than just a “check the box” approach to bring about and maintain meaningful change.

The quality of patient care is greatly influenced by a healthcare organization’s ability to develop strong and effective leaders, at all levels and regardless of job title or function. Every healthcare staff member has an opportunity to serve as a leader. Transformational leadership in healthcare organizations can take a group’s patient satisfaction from satisfactory to exemplary.

At this year's Leaders Conference hosted by the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA), we are thrilled to introduce CredentialStream for Groups - a cost-effective solution tailored to enhance the efficiency of smaller medical groups by addressing their unique needs.

Obstetrics is one of the highest risk specialties, and maternal and infant mortality rates have long been higher than expected in the United States. So, what is new in obstetrics in 2021?

This report offers a comprehensive analysis of key challenges and emerging strategies, offering forward-looking predictions and actionable insights to help healthcare leaders navigate an industry in flux and realize opportunities for sustainable growth.

HealthStream has solutions to help your organization meet new training standards and maintain compliance. HealthStream’s Resuscitation Training Resource Center can help explain the science behind the new standards and get your organization closer to improving resuscitation outcomes. To learn more, reach out to HealthStream today.

In the rapidly evolving landscape of healthcare, the alignment of leadership education pathways with organizational initiatives stands as a critical element for success. It may seem like an intuitive part of any strategic plan, and therefore not a necessary focus, but there are some compelling reasons why this is not the case.

This year, we connected with 1100+ Medical Services Professionals (MSPs) to gather insight into every aspect of the medical staff credentialing process. Discover key trends within the credentialing industry in our latest report!

Evidence-based practice is best practice for mental health treatment. Psych Hub provides content that is self-paced, adapted to various styles of adult learning and developed and curated by mental health experts. Reach out to HealthStream today to learn more about how Psych Hub can support those providing mental health care.

HealthStream’s Acuity and Assignment Manager can help your organization with one of the most critical issues faced by healthcare leaders today – staffing. By aggregating the data that you already have, this solution can help ensure that you have all of the information you need to provide optimal care to patients while supporting staff with equitable assignments based on objective, real-time data.

Though many people think of the hospital as a typical nursing work environment, the reality is that nurses work in a variety of settings. This blog post looks at some of the characteristics and challenges of working in assisted living vs. nursing home care.

Research suggests that healthcare leaders may be missing some recruitment opportunities amongst student nurses and other clinical students. myClinicalExchange can create efficiencies in your onboarding process and free up leaders so that they are able to help students connect with the organization and its job opportunities. Reach out to HealthStream today to learn more about how HealthStream and myClinicalExchange can improve recruitment efforts among new nurses and clinicians.