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:

The Experience-Complexity Gap is further complicating an existing nursing shortage. HealthStream has solutions that can help your organization close the gap by creating a faster and more effective onboarding process, standardizing clinical practice to reduce risk, providing cross-training and upskilling and building strong retention programs.

AI has the potential to help healthcare really understand their clinicians’ critical thinking ability. In the article from which this post is taken, HealthStream’s Associate VP for Clinical Staff Development, Christie Kerwan, spoke about what AI tools offer for clinical development.

San Juan Regional Medical Center is an independent, not-for-profit health system with 200 providers and 18 clinics across two states and three cities serving the Four Corners region since 1910. Better is our mission, improving lives through personalized health and care.

Join us at the AHCA Quality Summit, the leading event dedicated to advancing excellence in long term care and assisted living communities. Quality Summit is designed to equip you with innovative ideas, actionable strategies, and fresh perspectives to elevate the quality of care you provide for your residents.

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn directly from a nationally recognized FQHC that has redefined workforce performance and compliance success.

A sometimes-daunting array of processes and technologies is putting a new kind of pressure on clinical research professionals that demands innovative training and a core reassessment of how to demonstrate skillsets.

There are multiple variables to balance when constructing shift schedules for healthcare staff. One key factor for hospital managers to consider is patient acuity, and yet there is much discussion about how to consider it when making staffing decisions.

AHA Instructor Essentials courses are new online courses that have replaced the AHA Core Instructor Course, which has been discontinued. The Instructor Essentials courses are a required step to become an AHA Instructor, to add a discipline, and for all AHA Faculty.

As early as the 1970s, it was evident that safety and compliance were key to providing quality healthcare. The United States government recognized this and established the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) in 1976 to provide guidance for healthcare institutions to achieve effective compliance (Office of Inspector General, 2023). The General Compliance Program Guidance contains much useful guidance for stakeholders tasked with compliance. Though these guidelines are voluntary, they are the standard by which compliance within the healthcare industry is measured. Compliance with these guidelines can also help entities avoid the possibility of a Corporate Integrity Agreement to enforce remediation of problems with various policies or procedures (Office of Inspector General, n.d.).

Each organization that presented and participated in this year’s NCF represents a piece of the credentialing puzzle for credentialed and privileged providers. Their forward-thinking approaches around topics like AI and workforce wellness will ultimately help improve the quality of healthcare. Our industry’s commitment to the provider experience, process improvement and patient care is inspiring, and we at HealthStream fully embrace it.

On a universal level, every action, procedure, or decision involved in healthcare should optimize the possible outcomes that can be achieved as a result of care.

Growth can create as many operational liabilities as opportunities—especially when training systems don’t evolve alongside care delivery.

Sentara was able to use CredentialStream's organization and ease of use to support their mission of improving healthcare through innovation.

Clinical student placement can feel chaotic and inefficient for both students and administrators trying to manage the process, but it doesn’t have to. HealthStream’s myClinicalExchange is a streamlined and systematic process that can bring order and efficiency to your clinical placements. Most importantly, a more efficient placement and onboarding process can lead to safer, higher-quality care. It can also reduce the time and the cost associated with this process.

AI can help healthcare leaders develop personalized learning plans that can help ensure confidence in your nursing staff's ability to provide safe, competent care. jane can help you deliver personalized education plans for every nurse in your organization while CE Unlimited provides thousands of educational courses that can help close gaps in clinical knowledge and judgement. Reach out to HealthStream today to learn how these resources can support competency development in your organization.

Through its partnership with HealthStream (NASDAQ: HSTM), Precyse University, the most innovative, complete and widely adopted on-site, online and mobile ICD-10 education solution, has launched a powerful and unique ICD-10 education program for the physician office/ambulatory market.

When the need to upgrade credentialing and privileging processes and grow a true CVO arose, the organization understood evaluating and pursuing new technology would be key to this transformation.

Improving outcomes is top of mind for everyone in healthcare. One really good place to start this effort is to focus on your workforce. The eBook addresses building the skills and competency of existing staff to more quickly realize increases in care quality, experiences, and operations.

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.