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.

Explore top healthcare compliance software of 2024. Learn about essential features, leading providers, and how to choose the best option for your needs.

For success in treatment and for encouraging healthy behaviors, a trusting relationship needs to exist between the patient and a healthcare professional. Ultimately, cultivating awareness is key to counteracting the negative impacts of unconscious sexual identity bias on members of the LGBT community.

Specialty certification goes beyond the required state and local licensure requirements. Certification acknowledges clinical knowledge, experience, expertise, and judgement within a specialty. Let us show you how CE Unlimited can help with recruitment and retention.

Access the 2025 Trends in Medical Staff Credentialing report, the 9th edition of our trusted annual survey and report that delivers cutting-edge insights into the evolving world of provider credentialing and privileging. Trusted by medical services professionals (MSPs) and medical staff leaders, this report empowers you with data-backed strategies to refine credentialing processes, enhance provider satisfaction, and ensure operational excellence.

If you’re a leader of Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), it’s important to know the ins and out of the credentialing, privileging and enrollment requirements your organization must adhere to. In this post, we outline the facts you need to know.

Healthcare training needs a major overhaul as Gen Z, with their unique learning preferences, enters the workforce. Discover how to attract and retain this new generation by providing mobile-first training, searchable video knowledge bases, experiential learning opportunities, and platforms for informal social learning.

The healthcare industry is growing in size and scope and it's important to take the right steps to capitalize on the opportunities with a proper learning management system.

Prioritizing personal and professional goals can be difficult for nurse leaders, but maintaining and improving clinical and managerial skills is essential. Prioritize these six goals to maintain focus on those skills while modeling personal and professional growth for nurses on your team.

At HealthStream, we strive to enable our customers to credential providers with ease. For us, there’s no better compliment than a happy customer and we are grateful for the positive feedback we have received to date.

Healthcare systems in particular need to be ready to welcome a new generation of medical staff and care for a new generation of patients—ones that come with expectations, needs, and skillsets that will impact the way healthcare systems operate.

There are real and tangible ways to support, develop and retain your nurse leaders. HealthStream has resources that can help you drive higher levels of engagement while developing nurse leaders with both strong clinical and leadership skills.

Logan Health is a 590-bed health system in Montana with six hospitals and 68 provider clinics. Their service area includes the east and west side of the state, covers 20 counties, and includes 700,000 people. It supports 170 graduate-level students, 350 undergraduates, and their instructors each year.

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myClinicalExchange can help you develop clinicians with a streamlined, more efficient process by moving from manual processes to a solution that shortens onboarding time, simplifies the student placement process, manages affiliation agreements, manages compliance, and provides robust reporting capabilities for users. Contact HealthStream today to learn more about how your organization can simplify its student onboarding process.

Deaconess Gateway Hospital has 10 nursing units and an additional 10 nursing units at the main hospital campus, as well as a resource team across those units using ShiftWizard.

The Quadruple Aim is a 4-part strategy aimed at improving healthcare for patients and providers. This blog post examines the Aim centered on improving the patient experience, why it is important, and how to achieve it.

In order to ensure that healthcare organizations are maximizing their reimbursement for every component of care provided to patients, chargemaster maintenance measures must be instituted that reduce claim and line-item denials. Here are five recommended best practices for chargemaster maintenance.

Investing in a dependable system like HealthStream’s Quality Manager can be a game-changer for skilled nursing facilities, ensuring that leaders can allocate their time and resources efficiently while maintaining compliance and enhancing the quality of care provided to residents.

By embracing delegated credentialing, healthcare organizations can unlock a win-win solution for providers, plans, and ultimately, patients. Streamlined processes, quicker enrollment, and enhanced provider satisfaction make delegated credentialing the future of efficient and effective healthcare administration. Partnering with the right NCQA-accredited delegate empowers medical organizations to focus on what they do best – delivering high-quality care – while leaving credentialing in the hands of experienced experts.