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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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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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How Enrollment Can Make or Break Your Financial Outcomes

Discover how staffing levels, and claims, including holds and write-offs, are impacted throughout the industry, either by the pandemic, payers, staffing, or others.

January 13th, 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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Scheduling & Diversity in Healthcare

Are your workforce scheduling practices in line with your DEI initiatives?

January 13th, 2023

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Top Three Challenges for Today’s Health Plans and How CredentialStream's Network Module Tackles Them

Managing a health insurance plan today is riddled with challenges. Read on to learn about the top three challenges for today’s health plans and how Network can help tackle them.

January 10th, 2023

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Leveraging Patient Data to Support the Analysis of Clinical Competency

Storing and updating patient data is key to ensuring patients are receiving the right treatment from fully privileged and credentialed providers. Get a step-by-step approach to leveraging patient information to support the analysis of clinical competency.

January 9th, 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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Secondary Trauma: Fostering Resilience, Decreasing Burnout and Reducing Medical Errors

Secondary traumatic stress can impact caregivers, the organizations for which they work and the patients that they are caring for. HealthStream and CredibleMind have resources that can help your providers assess their STS and access the resources needed.

December 8th, 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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The Future of Employee Engagement

Outdated training modalities can serve to further alienate healthcare hospitality workers. You can engage your staff with proven training that will build skills and engagement while helping create a career path for those wishing to advance their healthcare careers.

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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HealthStream and the Iroquois Hospital Association – The Caring Gene Academy

HealthStream and IHA have expanded their workforce investment program to help long-term care organizations recruit, retain, train and engage a sustainable workforce.

November 7th, 2022

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