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7 Nurse Retention Strategies That You Can Use Now

Utilize these 7 nurse retention strategies from HealthStream to keep your healthcare employees happy and engaged with their work.

March 23rd, 2023

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Upcoming Changes to HIPAA – What You Need to Know Now

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.

March 22nd, 2023

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An Innovative Integration for a Single Source of Truth

It’s time to take control of the way you and your team handle staffing decisions. By utilizing this innovative partnership with Workday and ShiftWizard™, you’ll be able to leverage your time and attendance data to make real-time, cost-effective productivity decisions.

March 22nd, 2023

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Optimize Competency While Reducing EMS Training Costs

Recent changes in regulations governing how and where EMS training is provided have paved the way for EMS organizations to optimize their team’s competency while also reducing their training costs.

March 21st, 2023

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HealthStream Partners Addressing Top Healthcare Technology Hazards

The right educational tools can help your organization, retain, and engage employees. They can also help reduce the risks associated with healthcare technology hazards. Creating a safety culture begins with education. Our premier partner network can help your organization fully educate staff about their responsibilities when using unsafe devices or equipment.

March 20th, 2023

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How Nurse Leaders Can Ensure Fairness in Workforce Scheduling

Having an effective and healthcare-specific workforce scheduling system is an essential component to helping nurse leaders foster a fair and inclusive environment for their staff.

March 20th, 2023

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New Joint Commission Standards to Reduce Healthcare Disparities – What You Need to Know

The new Joint Commission standards will apply to acute care hospitals, ambulatory care, behavioral health, critical access hospitals, and human services organizations. Healthcare organizations can begin preparing to meet the new requirements now.

March 17th, 2023

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Reduce Credentialing and Provider Enrollment Timeframes with CredentialMyDoc™

Streamlining your credentialing and enrollment processes will deliver increased efficiency while allowing you to provide the best care possible. Here’s how CredentialMyDoc can help.

March 14th, 2023

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The Impact of Unconscious Bias on Healthcare

Unconscious bias often leads to false assumptions and negative outcomes for minority groups in the healthcare setting. We must focus on reducing the impact of unconscious biases on physician-patient interactions, which contributes to health disparities.

March 14th, 2023

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Acuity-based scheduling: A promising strategy for optimizing patient care

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.

March 2nd, 2023

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Ten Trends for 2023: CMS Cuts and Other Disruptors

Changes in physician reimbursement and a renewed focus on the industry from key healthcare disruptors are two of the top ten trends for healthcare leaders to monitor. Both are likely to drive additional changes in how and where care is delivered.

February 23rd, 2023

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Performance Privileges - The Value of ​Volume Data

Gathering massive amounts of data allows organizations to compare themselves more accurately to other “like” organizations. Learn about volume data and how it can be used to help provide the best in patient care.

February 15th, 2023

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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.

February 13th, 2023

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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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Physician Burnout and Provider Competency Management Can be Fixed by CredentialStream

80% of providers are dissatisfied with their healthcare organizations credentialing process. CredentialStream® is here to fix that.

January 18th, 2023

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