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Using Digital Rounding as a Best Practice for Improving Patient Safety

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.

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Preparing Your Practice for Value-Based Care: Five Best Practices

With your Medicare reimbursement at risk based on your participation in the Quality Payment Program this year, it’s critical that you start now. Don’t leave money on the table by failing to prepare

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Patient Safety is Improving: Some Positive Indications of Progress

The most recent National Healthcare QDR cites that measures of patient safety improved, with a 17 percent reduction in HACs.

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Adapting to the New Realities of Clinical Trials

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.

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New York State Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP): Heading into Year 3

There are 25 Performing Provider Systems in New York’s DSRIP. Having spent two years getting infrastructure and project plans in place, it is time to start operationalizing all that work. April 1, 2017 marked the beginning of Year 3, and reporting now will be a major focus.

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Five Trends Demonstrate How Non-Acute Care is Changing

Non-acute care is definitely evolving. The changes that are happening across the care environment result from such demographics, new government approaches to reimbursement, and limited financial resources. Here are five of the many trends meriting attention.

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The Benefits of Interactive Learning for Healthcare: Achievement and Understanding

Interactive learning has proven to improve overall student achievement of learning goals. Transforming classroom experiences from lecture to interaction learning also deepens the understanding of complex concepts.

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Ten Webinars about Solving Problems in Healthcare Compliance

Like many other areas of healthcare, compliance is plagued by challenges and responsibilities that can seriously affect the financial viability of an organization. Here are links to 10 webinar recordings focused on aspects of healthcare compliance.

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What’s Next in the Evolution of Interactive Learning in Healthcare?

The healthcare industry is changing how it educates and develops employees to meet varying learning demands and likely workforce shortages. Here we discuss developments in the near future of interactive learning in healthcare.

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The Value of Lifelong Learning Throughout a Healthcare Career

Lifelong learning offers individuals the opportunity to keep their knowledge and skills current through their working tenure. Here we examine how lifelong learning might apply to three healthcare professionals at different stages in their careers.

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Creating a Culture of Compliance in Healthcare with Training

To create a culture of compliance, employees have to understand why the compliance training assigned to them is necessary and important. The goal is to create a culture with a sense of shared responsibility where employees feel, “We're all in the same boat regardless of our position.”

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Strategies to Improve Health Literacy

There is an undeniable link between health literacy and health outcomes, but few Americans have the proficiency needed to manage their health. Here are some suggestions for improving it.

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Effects of poor communication between nurses & doctors & other providers

Learn how the effects of poor communication in healthcare between nurses, healthcare professionals, and providers occur for a variety of reasons from HealthStream.

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Best Practices for Creating a Healthcare Compliance Training Program

Effective compliance training that incorporates the best practices contained in this blog post and the more extensive article on which it is based can help employees understand their obligations and make every staff member an extension of the compliance team.

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What is Revenue Cycle in Healthcare?

The healthcare revenue cycle is integral to facility stability, so a well-rounded training and continuing education approach must be taken to ensure full staff understanding and buy-in.

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How to Become a Healthcare Compliance Officer

The career outlook for healthcare compliance careers is very promising. A few years ago, The Wall Street Journal labeled compliance officer the hottest job in America.

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What Are Some of the Typical Positions in Healthcare Compliance?

Compliance jobs exist across many industries, but job duties and responsibilities for them are remarkably similar, regardless of where you work. . Here some of the typical positions representative of a healthcare compliance program.

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Understanding the Primary Nursing Care Model

Explore the Primary Nursing Care Model. Understand its benefits, principles, and implementation to enhance patient care and nursing satisfaction.

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Respiratory Care Week Means Time to Slow Down, Take a Breath, and Look at Prevention

Respiratory Care Week is a great opportunity to study the specific illnesses related to the lungs, as well as the many ways they can be prevented.

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3 Guidelines for Mentoring New Graduate Nurses

Learn how to be successful at mentoring nurses, one must refrain from providing too much assistance or too little in the effort, from HealthStream.

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