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Nurse Strikes are Scary, but License Verification Doesn’t Have to be
Nurse strikes are becoming more common. Learn how HR teams can expedite license verifications for temporary resources with Workforce Validate.
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How to Use APIs in Healthcare Learning
You’ve likely heard that APIs can magically transform business, reduce waste, speed processes, and improve bottom lines. What does this mean for healthcare, and specifically for healthcare learning? Let’s explore the advantages of using APIs and some specific use cases to illustrate the wide variety of ways in which they can help transform your learning workflows.
February 8th, 2023
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Ten Trends for 2023: Hospital at Home and Integration of Behavioral Health and Primary Care
COVID-19 continues to make its mark on healthcare, but not all COVID-19 changes were temporary or negative. Providing acute-care to patients in their homes and integrating behavioral health and primary care are important innovations that have been fast-tracked as a result of the pandemic. The remaining 4 trends will be covered in future blogs.
February 2nd, 2023
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What Today’s Provider Enrollment Professionals Are Saying About Provider Data Management
Medical Services Professionals (MSPs) throughout the country agree their jobs require a lot of diligence, attention to detail, and patience. We’re on a mission to provide MSPs with actionable data they can use to improve their processes. Here’s what today’s Provider Enrollment Professionals had to say about Provider Data Management in our annual survey.
January 31st, 2023
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Medical Fraud is on the Rise, Here's What to Watch Out For
Healthcare fraud, AKA false claims, is an expensive crime affecting individuals and healthcare organizations alike. Read about the risks and learn how to protect yourself with Workforce Validate.
January 26th, 2023
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Ten Trends for 2023: Emerging Technology and Cybersecurity
COVID-19 will continue to have an impact on healthcare organizations for the foreseeable future; however, healthcare leaders will also need to focus on new and re-emerging issues in what are hopefully the waning days of the pandemic. The remaining 6 trends will be covered in future blogs.
January 25th, 2023
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Your Top 5 Privileging Questions Answered: Requirements, Procedures, and More
Privileging involves requirements amongst providers and health systems and involves defined medical staff policies and procedures. HealthStream answers the top questions to come out of our Privileging 101 webinar series here.
January 24th, 2023
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Ten Trends for 2023: Financial Woes and Staffing
The pandemic has exacerbated some operational and financial issues for healthcare leaders while also creating new ones. The future remains uncertain as the issues created by COVID-19 persist and combine with the flu and RSV, to continue to challenge the healthcare delivery system. The remaining 8 trends will be covered in future blogs.
January 17th, 2023
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What does a home health care nurse do?
Home health nursing is one of the many career options available within the nursing profession. It is a choice for registered nurses (RNs), licensed practical nurses (LPNs), and nurse assistants (NAs). The educational requirements for a home health nurse are dependent on individual nursing certifications.
January 17th, 2023
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Introducing Workforce Validate
Workforce Validate is a safe, easy and effective way to monitor workforce compliance. It alerts leaders and employees of expiring and expired licenses by checking literally hundreds of sources. Pre-built reports and dashboards make it easy for leaders to monitor compliance. Workforce Validate can eliminate the time-consuming process of manually checking sites and helps your organization to mitigate risk and feel confident that staff members that are on the floor are safe to be there.
January 13th, 2023
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Clinical Placement for the Future of Healthcare – A Conversation with Centura and UW Health
Preparing students for their future clinical placements can feel chaotic and overwhelming, but it is possible to impose some order on the process while reducing risk and improving your organization’s ability to onboard students and easily create accurate reports for your organization and its’ clinical and academic partners. myClinicalExchange can help build competence and compliance while helping to reduce the time and costs associated with the process.
December 19th, 2022
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The Must Haves For Effective Leadership Training For Your Clinical Staff
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.
December 19th, 2022
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The Importance of Data Governance for Effective Patient Care
Implementing data governance gives the healthcare industry access to analytics which help providers provide the best possible care to their patients.
December 14th, 2022
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8 Best Practices for Successful Case Review
Healthcare organizations juggle a variety of priorities, but the one of most important is patient safety. There are many ways to ensure physicians are performing to the best of their ability, and one of those methods is Peer Review. In this post, we’ll go over both Peer and Case Review, and look into strategies for accurately evaluating provider performance.
November 28th, 2022
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Trends in Onboarding and Orientation - Solutions to Make it Safe and Efficient
HealthStream can help evaluate your organization's existing orientation and onboarding process and develop strategies to more efficiently manage the experience-complexity gap for new and transitioning nurses without sacrificing quality or safety.
November 23rd, 2022
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What Today’s Provider Enrollment Experts are Saying About the No Surprises Act
This year’s annual report survey on provider enrollment dives into Financial Outcomes and Implications, Business Services and Operations, and Provider Data Management. In this post we explore how the No Surprises Act is improving processes.
November 18th, 2022
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Scheduling Strategies: Turning Information into Action with ShiftWizard
This blog is from a recent webinar, “Scheduling Strategies: Turning Information Into Action.” The webinar was moderated by Sarah Enders, Senior Product Marketing Manager, and featured presenters Terri Epler, RN, Solution Consultant Manager and Sloane Johnson, RN, Solution Executive.
November 9th, 2022
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Why Are Certifications So Important?
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.
November 8th, 2022
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Benefits of Ongoing or Periodic Professional Practice Evaluation Throughout a Healthcare Organization
Leverage Periodic Practice Evaluation (PPE) programs to improve individual provider performance and organizational quality.
November 2nd, 2022
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Mitigate Risk and Protect Your Organization: Automating Policy Management and Conflict of Interest Disclosure
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.