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From patient satisfaction to leader accountability, HealthStream analyzes what hourly rounding is not, why it often fails, and differences from traditional practice.
The 2010 Affordable Care Act has initiated broad and transformational change to our healthcare system, with reimbursements shifting from fee-for-service care to value-based care. In response to the changes upon us, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) launched a two-year initiative to assess and provide thought leadership on transforming the nursing profession.
When implementing a digital rounding solution, leadership must spend considerable time researching their options, understanding all technical requirements, and strategizing to get the most out of their investment.
Learn how medical pro providers have begun to take a closer look at hospital readmissions that occur within 30 days of discharge, from HealthStream.
HealthStream’s answer to the healthcare industry’s demand for a strategic approach to annual mandatory training. The stakes are too high to continue a “check-the-box” exercise that offers almost no visibility into the cost of delivering training and whether expenditures could be eliminated or redirected to more effective initiatives.
Physicians often lead the team that surrounds every patient, and we must integrate them into the patient experience in a way that enables the best patient outcomes.
The Medical Staff Office (MSO) for Penn Medicine uses Echo as the source of truth for all provider information related to credentialing and health plan enrollment. Recently, the Penn Medicine MSO made a strategic decision to streamline and automate their processes.
The times we live in call for a more active role in our personal safety and that of hospital patients and staff to be prepared for an active shooter.
Healthcare providers are functioning in a landscape that seems to be reshaped on a daily basis. While attempting to adjust to the explosion of healthcare reform, new regulations, performance standards, payment structures, ever-changing technology, and myriad other requirements, there remains the need to provide care to patients – and to do it perfectly every time.
Within healthcare, rounding is an effective way for staff to monitor patient recovery and assess fundamental components of the hospital stay. In addition, rounding is used for diverse functions, from auditing hospital equipment to gathering feedback from employees.
Perhaps the most obvious constraint to purposeful leader rounding is time. With the countless tasks that hospital leaders manage behind the scenes to improve care services, it can be challenging to find the time for frontline activities.
Several years ago, we started getting inquiries for our billing, security, and workforce compliance courses to be made compliant with ADA and 508 regulations. In particular, customers were expressing interest in the standards set forth by Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as well as by the ADA.
EBSCO Health provides users with a wide array of content covering over 50 nursing specialties, leadership, management, culturally competent care, and more.
But as consumers face higher out-of-pocket costs for care, they become more likely to postpone treatment or service. Two out of five adults with high deductibles have delayed or avoided care based on the amount of out-of-pocket costs, according to a survey by The Commonwealth Fund.
The demands on clinical research professionals to deliver high-quality study data more quickly and efficiently have arguably never been greater, but the industry continues to shy away from adapting technologies and new best practices that could help lighten the load.
Successful patient safety initiatives improve patient lives and outcomes. Although it may be hard for hospitals to successfully implement changes in workflow to enhance patient safety, technology like digital rounding can make it easier to achieve.
A sometimes-daunting array of processes and technologies is putting a new kind of pressure on clinical research professionals that demands innovative training and a core reassessment of how to demonstrate skillsets.
Bethesda Health CFO Joanna Aquilina shares her belief that the key to achieving good patient and financial outcomes is strong physician relationships. She highlights the importance of every CFO’s commitment to this end.
Getting, and keeping, nurses is one of the major challenges in healthcare today. Can gamification help by providing an innovative platform that not only encourages growth and development but also fosters loyalty and teamwork?
