National Handwashing Awareness Week provides the opportunity to bone up on hand health and put into practice a quick and easy way to cut back on germ and virus transmission.
Applying artificial intelligence (AI) to healthcare workplace development can help organizations overcome some of the challenges holding back employees from achieving great outcomes.
Learn why it's a best practice to organize core privilege forms by specialty and certain components that typically should make up each specialty’s core privilege form.
National Influenza Vaccination Week is the time to separate fact from fiction when it comes to influenza, flu shots and how to stay healthy while also protecting those around us.
Healthcare can improve its approach to the opioid crisis by adopting a population health model. Looking at addiction and abuse as a chronic disease can change the treatment trajectory
The history of opioid use in the United States, especially the recent decades of abuse, tells us that the crisis wasn’t just an accident. Decisions were made by individuals and corporations that led to our current state of calamity, with certain key lessons for the healthcare industry.
HIPAA violations include large-scale data privacy breaches through cyberattacks as well as insider threats like celebrity information privacy violations by employees. Healthcare compliance training needs to address them all.
The code of conduct in healthcare is the cornerstone of any healthcare organization's compliance program and is an essential component of the institution's culture.
All healthcare organizations go through changes in resources, especially involving leaders. What can be done to reduce the stress during this period? Setting up processes and ensuring everyone complies with them can help.
The environment for healthcare delivery continues to change in the U.S., and these evolutions cause us to continually update the focus we place on quality improvement and patient safety. As things change in the industry, we must continue to add new safeguards that reflect the new environment.
In today’s healthcare landscape, the assurance of a conflict-free environment has never been more important; therefore, organizations need to take the appropriate steps and action to achieve this environment. In this white paper, HealthStream, surveyed 281 healthcare compliance leaders throughout the U.S. to learn more about the compliance programs in their hospitals. HealthStream wanted to discover how well Conflicts of Interest were being monitored and uncover any gaps in the process. Download the whitepaper to learn more.
For most healthcare organizations, their greatest expense—and greatest differentiator—is their employees. In this paper, we look at the role compensation can play in supporting employee retention and suggest ways healthcare organizations can use a strong compensation strategy to reduce employee turnover.
AI has the potential to help healthcare really understand their clinicians’ critical thinking ability. In the article from which this post is taken, HealthStream’s Associate VP for Clinical Staff Development, Christie Kerwan, spoke about what AI tools offer for clinical development.
There are many reasons to standardize privileges across all medical staffs—improved program management, compliance, alignment with contemporary clinical practice, and to manage clinical competence. Here’s how a typical project to standardize privileges may proceed successfully.
Assessing and developing nurses for the ability to think critically has never been more important. This article and excerpt focus on education focused on critical thinking and its interplay with learning and assessment technology.
Join HealthStream and our partner nThrive in celebrating Revenue Integrity Week by incorporating these seven new strategies to boost revenue cycle integrity and performance in healthcare.
Healthcare organizations must work quickly & efficiently to fight shortages & ensure staff is equipped to provide quality patient care. This article outlines the ways to assess & develop nurses for the ability to think critically.
Healthcare jobs can make the flexibility demands of a modern life too difficult to manage, unless they are paying attention to unhappy employees and giving them some options to adjust such components as schedules, travel demands, and commute issues.
A comprehensive coding audit requires thoughtful preparation, including identifying its goals and scope, in order to achieve the desired results.
To have an impact on healthcare turnover, organizations should ensure that their managers are doing a good job and treating their direct reports fairly. In many cases, it’s true that people don’t leave companies as often as they leave managers.
