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.
Massachusetts General Hospital – Radiology Department
With CredentialStream, UNC Health was able to upgrade their privileging process to fully maximize technology.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Leverage Periodic Practice Evaluation (PPE) programs to improve individual provider performance and organizational quality.
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.
Psychological safety and belonging matter to nurses. Building a sense of psychological safety and belonging can improve retention, engagement and satisfaction and build a strong, creative team. Healthy work environments produce better outcomes for nurses, patients and the organization. HealthStream and AACN have partnered together to offer solutions that will help leaders create the kind of work environments where nurses will want to work.
Automating policy management is the best way to achieve compliance and ensure that your staff have access to the very latest regulations. HealthStream’s Policy Manager helps you put the most current policies and procedures in the hands of your organization’s frontline staff. It can save hundreds of hours per year for the average healthcare organization and provides the kind of reporting that can make visits from regulators and accrediting bodies more efficient.
The elimination of the NREMT’s restrictions on distributive learning can help make EMS training faster and more cost-efficient for your organization which still meeting your accreditation requirements. HealthStream’s EMS program is a comprehensive solution to your EMS training needs.
The threat of verbal and physical assault on ED staff continues to grow, creating a dangerous environment for nurses and other providers. Protection of the physical and mental health of ED providers should be on the radar screen of all healthcare leaders. HealthStream, in partnership with ENA and Psych Hub, have great tools that can help build a better understanding of mental health while helping providers to develop self-care strategies that will help them to provide high quality care in the ED that is safe for both patients and their providers.
Our Privileging 101 Series covers it all, from basic education on the history and fundamentals of clinical privileging to how to navigate all the regulatory and legal aspects involved. Part 1 provides an overview of the journey physicians must complete before they can apply for privileges.
Every year, HealthStream surveys hundreds of provider enrollment professionals to learn more about their processes, progress and priorities. There is no question, today’s enrollment professionals are on a mission to continuously improve.
Kona Community Hospital is a 94-bed hospital with inpatient, outpatient, emergency, trauma and behavioral health services, and cancer infusion center.
CredentialMyDoc's customization capabilities, among other features, allowed for Adamas to implement and manage their processes in a secure and timely manner. They were provided with flexibility from the start which will give them more options as they expand.
Antelope Valley Medical Center's fresh start with preceptor development transforms performance standards
Enhancing Consistency and Flexibility with The S.T.A.B.L.E. Program
Having a great onboarding process can help you and your organization improve the quality of patient care, reduce risk and improve retention. You can have a great onboarding process by focusing on what matters – ensuring that your nursing staff are confident, competent and ready to consistently and safely apply their clinical knowledge and judgement.
