Guidelines and recommendations on what to provide, verify, and perhaps omit when it comes to provider affiliation verifications. More isn't always best.

This blog post describes HealthStream’s study to assess the validity of the Jane™ competency system’s AI critical thinking assessments as an evaluative tool in scoring responses of RNs in situations where critical judgment is required.

Successful patient safety initiatives improve patient lives and outcomes. Although it may be hard for hospitals to successfully implement changes in workflow to enhance patient safety, technology like digital rounding can make it easier to achieve.

Applying artificial intelligence (AI) to healthcare workplace development can help organizations overcome some of the challenges holding back employees from achieving great outcomes.

Conditions of Participation are qualifications developed by CMS that healthcare organizations must meet in order to begin and continue participating in federally funded healthcare programs (Medicare, Medicaid, CHIPS, etc.) This article examines new ways healthcare organizations can use assessments and training to ensure staff understand and are adhering to policies that support compliance.

Task To Touch, a new HealthStream courseware partner, is focused on helping clinicians understand how to adopt specific skills that enhance the patient experience in the healthcare setting.

We believe that everyone in an organization deserves a chance to be a hero—to make a difference; thus we recommend tiers of recognition and awards. Your award system can be similar or take a different form. Use your own judgment about the culture you want to create. And remember it may take time to make it happen.

Thyroid Awareness Month is a good time to explore the hard work that this little-known organ does, and how it can affect you if it is not functioning properly.

Millennials make up the largest generation working in healthcare, and their numbers and predominance will only continue to grow. That’s why it is important for healthcare managers to learn how to make regular communication about performance work, specifically for millennials.

As an essential part of an organization’s workforce strategy, the annual employee engagement survey provides organization-wide feedback for an overall view of the health of an organization and the factors influencing business outcomes. Employee engagement is the metric that drives everything else, and when scores rise or fall, other metrics, such as financial or operational performance, and patient satisfaction can climb or dip with it.

Achieving PTAP with Distinction can be a complex journey without the proper tools. HealthStream’s Residency Program can help support your organization on this journey. Contact HealthStream for a demo today.

The University of Louisville (UofL) Hospital is an academic teaching and research hospital that is part of UofL Health, a fully integrated regional academic health system.

Credentialing and privileging processes can be efficiently optimized through CredentialStream, which emphasizes revenue generation and ensuring patient safety.

Workforce Validate is a reliable tool that can support your organization’s culture of compliance with clear reporting, regular updates to licensing data, and user support to ensure that you are avoiding penalties and reducing risk. Reach out to HealthStream today to learn more about this easy-implement solution.

Consolidation creates a single source of truth for provider data, with one application and one reappointment date across all system facilities. A physician is in the system only once for all credentialing, removing the need for multiple spreadsheets and checklists.

The opioid crisis continues to rage across the United States, but all the news is not grim thanks to robust efforts around tightened access, education and treatment.

Some big changes to HIPAA are expected to be announced within the next few weeks. You can begin to prepare your organization now by familiarizing your team with the proposed new rule and training employees on how to comply with the updated requirements.

This study calculated the difference between jane AI assessment scores and manually graded scores to determine the inter-rater reliability and provide evidence of jane AI’s grading efficacy.

It is easy to get started with Workforce Validate. hStream subscribers can fully implement Workforce Validate’s License Product in a matter of days as there is no additional cost and most information required for implementation already resides within hStream. Contact HealthStream today to schedule a demo of Workforce Validate.

Using a full-featured LMS can help your organization manage initiatives well beyond compliance training. Reach out to HealthStream today to learn more about how your organization can leverage this LMS to maximize learning amongst your workforce.