This is a time when large-scale disasters are becoming more frequent, some of them linked to climate change and global warming. This blog looks at healthcare disaster impacts, serious vulnerabilities, preparation best practices, and the need for enhanced disaster recovery planning in healthcare organizations.
For success in treatment and for encouraging healthy behaviors, a trusting relationship needs to exist between the patient and a healthcare professional. Ultimately, cultivating awareness is key to counteracting the negative impacts of unconscious sexual identity bias on members of the LGBT community.
In addition to many other impacts, COVID-19 has emphasized the extreme importance of succession planning within healthcare organizations. This blog post examines how the pandemic is an opportunity to refocus the process of finding new healthcare leaders.
Using the various electronic medical record systems that are now ubiquitous in healthcare for collecting health information across an organization, nurse informaticists are managing, interpreting, and communicating data with a primary purpose to improve the quality and outcomes of patient care.
Healthcare is changing rapidly, and it’s no surprise that healthcare education needs to do the same. This eBook addresses advances in training, including the heightened focus on lifelong learning and new education methods that enhance knowledge retention and advance competency.
The healthcare workforce is at the heart of many of the big changes coming to the healthcare industry. Not only are we asking them to do more with fewer resources, time, and manpower, but they are also tasked with continually improving outcomes, both for patients and their organizations. This eBook takes a deeper look into how your organization can strengthen your healthcare workforce and enable them to provide quality care.
Given that there are more nurses than any other profession in healthcare, nurses should play a larger role in creating healthcare policy. This blog posts looks at why and how the policy change influence of nurses can be improved, as well as ways it is already felt.
Bayhealth is central and southern Delaware’s largest healthcare system. With numerous hospitals and satellite facilities, the non-profit system has more than 4,000 employees.
Rapid City used EchoOneApp to improve aging receivables by 97%, increase physician satisfaction, and reduce enrollment time...
Using EchoOneApp, Results Physiotherapy cut credentialing time, increased onboarding efficiency, and reduced out-of-network losses, while accommodating significant service
As a result of this this successful online program, Bridgeport Hospital now has a critical care education program that is evidence-based and meets national and regulatory...
Resurrection Health Care created an online orientation program that incorporated our audio and video learning modules, as well as our exams, acknowledgement forms...
HealthStream’s Performance Center is an important tool to help us provide in-depth, individualized feedback to coach and develop our workforce...
The HealthStream Competency Center allowed Feather River Hospital to lower the cost of creating, managing, assessing, tracking, and more.
McLaren Health Care has adopted the HealthStream Learning Center (HLC) as its learning management system for the entire organization. It created an online orientation program using the HLC and HealthStream Video. The company worked with instructional designers and speakers to update and revise the presentations, created each corporate department’s presentation as a course, and combined all courses into a curriculum.
To handle the scale of EMR migration and training needed, Baptist decided that the HealthStream Learning Center (HLC) was the best fit for this enterprise-wide project.
Forrest Health is a regional, multi-specialty system with 3,380 on staff providing care to 19 counties in South Mississippi. In 2011, Forrest General Hospital became the flagship hospital of Forrest Health—a network of hospitals in South Mississippi.
Learn about the benefit of the HealthStream Learning Center through the success at Almost Family.
An important role of the Henry Ford Health System (HFHS) Compliance Office is to implement effective conflict of interest (COI) policies and procedures for staff that enter into external relationships. For several years, the office used a “homegrown” system which was not specifically designed to manage COI activities, causing several operational deficiencies that made its continued use impractical. They needed a sophisticated and comprehensive tool for streamlining COI process that would also be simple to learn and use. So it was important for the organization to partner with a vendor that offered a proven solution and track records.
Until recently, Cooper University Health Care kept its clinicians and employees updated on healthcare regulatory changes with paper-based or in-person compliance training programs. Constantly evolving regulations, combined with a rapidly growing organization and conflicting employee schedules soon made this type of training impractical.
