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Value-Based Purchasing is on the Horizon for Home Health Agencies

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published its proposal to implement a Home Health Value-based Purchasing model for Medicare-certified home health agencies (HHAs) in selected states starting in 2016. The model will test whether incentives for better care can improve outcomes in the delivery of home health services.

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Selecting the Best Chart for Your Healthcare Data

The best chart is usually not the newest, most elaborate, or most colorful. In fact, it's often the opposite. You don’t order a medical test for a patient just because you can--don’t just use the sexiest chart available either. So, how do you determine which chart is right for your audience?

April 1st, 2021

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Education is Vital for Controlling Communicable Disease Outbreaks: AACN

AACN Shares How Education is Vital for Controlling Communicable Disease Outbreaks. The highly publicized 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak reinforced the importance of critical care knowledge, skill, and teamwork in uncertain situations to the entire healthcare community.

April 1st, 2021

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Provider Enrollment Solutions Vital for Hospital Revenue Cycle Management: White Paper

In this White Paper, HealthStream examines the new environment for Provider Enrollment and its implications for hospital and health system leaders. We present new research collected in early 2015 by HealthStream from 130 hospital and health system credentialing executives throughout the U.S. who indicate that improving the Provider Enrollment function is a high priority in their organizations.

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Performance Review and Competency Assessment: How They Fit Together

Performance appraisal and competency assessment fall into the same basic family, but they also have some differences. Performance appraisal often refers to the overall employee evaluation

April 1st, 2021

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Focus on What Matters in Patient Surveys: The Person, Not the Score

There has never been a time in our history with greater focus or energy on how patients are experiencing their care. In a recent Beryl Institute study, 70% of CEOs identified the patient experience as being among their top three priorities for organizational excellence and success.

April 1st, 2021

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Making Healthcare Staff Meetings More Engaging

Here’s an issue that managers across the health care spectrum deal with all the time: Today is the monthly leadership meeting for our organization. The agenda was posted yesterday and includes a review of the following items:

April 1st, 2021

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Nurse Managers: The Formula for Building Strong Teams

I believe Nurse Managers have the toughest job on the planet. They are accountable for operations, budget, staff satisfaction, patient satisfaction, staffing, quality outcomes—heck, all outcomes!

April 1st, 2021

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The Faces of Sepsis: Could It Be You or Your Loved One?

This guest blog from our partner, Medical Simulation Corporation, is published in support of World Sepsis Day, whose goal is to reduce the global incidence of sepsis by 20% by 2020.

April 1st, 2021

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Access Precyse Physician Office ICD-10 Education Now Via HealthStream

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.

April 1st, 2021

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Creating Positive Change in Healthcare Through Appreciative Questions

Appreciative questions are a simple and effective way to inspire people and reinforce desired behavior. They can put a positive spin on huddles, staff meetings or during casual rounds with staff.

April 1st, 2021

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Writing a Healthcare Competency: How Detailed Should You Get?

I get many questions from people about how detailed to get when writing a healthcare competency statement. Should you write a competency statement and then add a sub-set of details that reflect all the skill aspects of that competency or details that describe the steps of a given procedure? The answer to this is, “Not necessarily.”

April 1st, 2021

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American Heart Association Instructor Essentials Courses Now Available!

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.

April 1st, 2021

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Getting the Most Out of Patient Rounds

Patient rounds can have unexpected benefits when a few simple techniques are followed. Over time, as I began to refine my approach, I got better results: I noticed that patients became reassured and felt safer, I got meaningful staff compliments, and I learned useful ideas to make care even better because patients felt more comfortable sharing.

April 1st, 2021

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7 Tips for Packing Your Bags for Your Magnet Journey

Summer is here, and many of us have a vacation planned in the near future. If you are anything like me (a planner!), you are making lists, buying new outfits, and coordinating activities to ensure a wonderful vacation.

April 1st, 2021

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Caregivers: The Importance of Taking Care of Our Four Selves

Janet Hagberg once said “If the three elements of body, mind and spirit are in balance, they reinforce one another; if they are out of balance they multiply problems.”

April 1st, 2021

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Top 7 Ways to Sustain Cultural Transformation in Healthcare

As I partner with organizations that have been on their Relationship-Based Care (RBC) journey for several years, invariably at some point the big question becomes, “How does my team maintain the exuberance and creativity to continue to deepen and also sustain our cultural transformation?”

April 1st, 2021

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Sepsis Touches Many of Us, Professionally or Personally

As professionals we are acutely aware of the increased profile of sepsis of late. But do we know why it has risen to such a level of importance in discussion or why it has become a critical quality initiative? Do we fully understand the implications of sepsis, even in its early stages? Do we know the stages of the sepsis and its progression?

April 1st, 2021

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From the Int'l Pediatric Simulation Symposia & Workshop 2013: Pt. 2

Last month HealthStream sponsored HealthySimulation.com’s attendance to the 5th annual IPSSW (International Pediatric Simulation Symposia and Workshop) in New York.

April 1st, 2021

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From the Int'l Pediatric Simulation Symposia & Workshop 2013: Pt. 1

Last month HealthStream sponsored my attendance to the 5th Annual International Pediatric Simulation Symposia and Workshops Conference or IPSSW. This specialized simulation meeting took place in the heart of New York City on 103rd st across from Central Park at the historic New York Academy of Medicine. Watch the video and read below for Part 1 of my event coverage below.

April 1st, 2021

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