Choosing a new credentialing solution can be a daunting undertaking. Thorough planning and consideration are crucial, but buyers are often unsure where to start. HealthStream’s Buyer’s Checklist offers a tool to guide you through this process. By addressing these vital points, the Buyer’s Checklist empowers you to make informed decisions and identify the ideal credentialing solution for your organization.
Choosing a Learning Experience Platform for healthcare is a critical decision. The Healthcare LXP Buyer’s Guide gives you expert insights, key features to look for, and a step-by-step evaluation checklist to help you compare top solutions. Whether you're focused on clinical training, regulatory compliance, or workforce development, this guide helps you align your learning strategy with real healthcare needs.
Selecting the right Learning Management System (LMS) is critical for healthcare organizations navigating complex compliance standards, clinical training, and continuing education. The Healthcare LMS Buyer’s Guide simplifies your search—offering expert tips, comparison criteria, and a healthcare-specific checklist to help you choose a system that supports your workforce and improves patient care. Whether you're replacing outdated tools or choosing your first LMS, this guide gives you the clarity to move forward with confidence.
As healthcare organizations face significant financial uncertainty due to rising costs, reimbursement challenges, and economic fluctuations, they must look for ways to optimize their revenue cycle management (RCM). Along with technological advancements in RCM, focused and comprehensive RCM education is a vital step in improving operations and profitability in today’s market.
Discover how HealthStream Surgical Orientation equips scrub nurses, circulating nurses, surgical techs, first assistants, pre-op, and post-op nurses with the skills they need to deliver exceptional care.
With the announcement of CMS 3442-F minimum staffing standards, there is a profound impact for long-term care facilities. These changes require facilities to document and demonstrate the increase of RNs and nurse aides on staff to CMS. Instead of feeling overwhelmed by the changes and how they affect your facilities, HealthStream is here to help with staffing plan templates, facility assessments, and more.
At HealthStream, it’s our goal to help you find the ideal solution for your staff. While finding a new scheduling solution might seem overwhelming, we see it as an opportunity for you to optimize your processes, increase productivity, and elevate the quality of care your team provides. The right scheduling system can also increase employee satisfaction, engagement, and retention. That’s why we created a comprehensive guide for you to utilize as you begin your search.
Healthcare systems in particular need to be ready to welcome a new generation of medical staff and care for a new generation of patients—ones that come with expectations, needs, and skillsets that will impact the way healthcare systems operate.
The CMS Star Rating is an essential tool affecting hospital reputation and reimbursement. In this paper, hospitals utilizing jane AI for clinical nurse training and assessment were analyzed to determine if a correlation existed between their overall CMS star rating and their nursing staff’s average score on jane knowledge assessments.
The healthcare industry is advancing in many exciting ways. New technology is leading to breathtaking possibilities for higher quality, more efficient patient care. Broader applications of telemedicine are opening new doors for communication among providers and between providers and patients. ASCs and disruptors, such as Amazon and Walmart, are changing the landscape of care delivery.
This study explored the correlation between the scores from jane and the CMS-reported mortality rate for MI patients.
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Continuing education and professional development directly impact employees’ knowledge, confidence, and job satisfaction, improving their performance. It may also be the key to creating a happier staff, given its significance to employee competence and confidence. If educational opportunities help improve employees’ happiness, it makes sense that such offerings would be beneficial to the company and its employees. Here, we take a look at a few ways in which this investment is worthwhile.
In 2012, the Hawai’i State Center for Nursing established the first nurse residency program partnership in the nation. The Hawai’i Nurse Residency Program (HNRP) is a collaborative partnership between healthcare facilities and schools of nursing with an intended goal of supporting new nurse transition to practice, as well as incentivizing new nurses to stay at facilities within the state beyond their first year of practice. As of 2021, there are 14 partner hospitals covering all counties within the state and the scope continues to expand.
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Specialty certification goes beyond the required state and local licensure requirements. Certification acknowledges clinical knowledge, experience, expertise, and judgement within a specialty. Let us show you how CE Unlimited can help with recruitment and retention.
More than 10,000 U.S. adults are turning 65 each day. As the population ages, they generate a number of critical issues and trials for an industry that is already dealing with financial problems, severe staffing shortages, and provider burnout. The following are some of the unique challenges to be prepared for as a large proportion of our population ages over the next decade.
The best approach to managing claims denials is a proactive approach. In this article, we review the common reasons for denied claims, the financial impact on healthcare organizations, and 8 strategies for how to effectively decrease denied claims.
Specialty certification goes beyond the required state and local licensure requirements. Certification acknowledges clinical knowledge, experience, expertise, and judgement within a specialty. Let us show you how CE Unlimited can help with recruitment and retention.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) tracks and reports on several quality measures to provide transparency into different healthcare settings including acute care hospitals.
