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CredentialStream Awarded G2’s Spring Leader 2024 Badge
CredentialStream ®, by HealthStream® earned a Spring Leader 2024 badge in the Best Health Care Credentialing Software category.
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CredentialStream Awarded ‘Users Love Us’ Badge in G2’s Report
We’re proud to share that our commitment to this mission recently helped CredentialStream® earn G2’s coveted 'Users Love Us' badge, an honor that is based on a significant amount of positive customer reviews.
May 8th, 2024
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Dyna AI: Bringing in a New Era of Fast, Trustworthy Clinical Decision Support
AI can create opportunities for your providers to get safe, accurate, curated information where they need it most - at the bedside. Dyna AI provides curated content that you can trust. To learn more about EBSCO Dynamic Health contact HealthStream today.
May 7th, 2024
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Empowering Clinical Excellence: Introducing Competency Suite
HealthStream is offering Competency Suite+ at an affordable rate to help healthcare organizations manage education costs while still providing exceptional resources and exceptional value. Contact HealthStream today to learn more about this solution.
May 6th, 2024
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Time-Saving Clinical Onboarding Tips for Healthcare Leaders
Where healthcare complexities and the need for quality patient care intersect with healthcare professionals’ well-being, staffing shortages and burnout emerge as critical challenges. Healthcare leaders can navigate these challenges by seeking practical solutions, fostering resilient teams, and ensuring exceptional care. By drawing on professional insights and utilizing time-saving onboarding tips, leaders can implement efficient onboarding practices to help reduce staffing shortages and address burnout.
May 3rd, 2024
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Nurse Onboarding Made Right: 6 Key Steps for Success
Nurses work diligently to deliver care to patients despite staffing shortages. This demand to provide high-quality patient care with fewer and fewer resources, including staff, creates the perfect environment for burnout, especially for new grads. Ill-equipped preceptors can also increase the risk of new nurses leaving their positions. These six key steps to improve the nurse onboarding process will turn the tide on turnover rates.
May 2nd, 2024
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CPCS® Certification: The Gold Standard for Credentialing Professionals
The Certified Provider Credentialing Specialist (CPCS®) certification offered by the National Association Medical Staff Services (NAMSS) has become the gold standard for those working in healthcare credentialing. Get all the details on this designation and the opportunities it opens in this post.
April 29th, 2024
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Improve Decision-making, Reduce Variability, and Optimize Patient Care with New Smart Logic Functionality
CredentialStream just keeps getting better! See how the recently released Privilege smart logic functionality will help improve clinical and non-clinical decision-making, reduce variability, and optimize patient care delivery.
April 26th, 2024
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3 Areas of Focus for Nursing Informatics Competencies
This blog post examines three nursing informatics competencies and connects them to better patient care, healthcare initiatives and goals like lower readmission rates, and an improved overall sense of job fulfillment and engagement for nurses.
April 25th, 2024
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The Integration of Artificial Intelligence in Leadership Development
The importance of strong leadership in the evolving healthcare business landscape is clear. The optimal path to create strong leaders is not always as clear. While not all of the attention on Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been positive, the emergence of (AI) in leadership development is creating new opportunities to help develop critical leadership skills.
April 19th, 2024
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Educating a Multigenerational Workforce
In this special 10-minute conversation, we discuss how understanding generational needs starts with innovative education, as well as what organizations can do to create a more age-inclusive culture.
April 19th, 2024
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Becoming an Employer of Choice: The No-Cost Strategy for Nurse Retention
In this special 10-minute conversation, we discuss how inclusive culture directly impacts nurse retention, as well as best practices to positively impact retention without drastically affecting budgets.
April 15th, 2024
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Student Rotations: Learning and Hiring Opportunities
Research suggests that healthcare leaders may be missing some recruitment opportunities amongst student nurses and other clinical students. myClinicalExchange can create efficiencies in your onboarding process and free up leaders so that they are able to help students connect with the organization and its job opportunities. Reach out to HealthStream today to learn more about how HealthStream and myClinicalExchange can improve recruitment efforts among new nurses and clinicians.
April 11th, 2024
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Maternal Care in America Should Not Be So Risky
Many assume the quality of maternal healthcare in the U.S. ranks among the Top 10 in the world, but sadly that is not the case.
April 4th, 2024
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Competency Management for the Next Generation
A one-size-fits-all approach to competency management is no longer practical in today’s healthcare environment. HealthStream’s jane AI can help by providing personalized competency development that provides assessment, development, and reporting on clinical knowledge and judgement. To learn more about how to create a personalized competency development program for your organization, contact HealthStream today.
April 4th, 2024
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Transforming Competency Development: The Role of AI in Ensuring Compliance
The intersection of AI and healthcare training and development helps professionals maintain credentials and enhance competency in an ever-changing regulatory environment.
March 29th, 2024
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Overlooked Recruiting Opportunity: Clinical Student Rotations
75% of student nurses report that employment opportunities are not discussed during clinical rotations
March 28th, 2024
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Why a One-Size-Fits-All Method Doesn't Work for Competency Development
The current state of the healthcare system is placing immense stress on healthcare professionals, prompting many to leave the workforce prematurely. Healthcare staffing shortages have a serious trickle-down effect. They lead to heavier workloads, increased anxiety, and burnout for the remaining staff, which can negatively impact patient care and outcomes.
March 28th, 2024
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Credentialing vs. Privileging: Understanding the Basics and Establishing Processes
Implementing a fair credentialing and privileging process promotes patient safety, regulatory compliance, risk management, quality standards, and good institutional governance. Understand the basics and see how CredentialStream supports both.
March 27th, 2024
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Healing Together: The Impact of Female Advocacy
It's important to recognize and honor the power of women who make a difference in their team’s lives, their family’s lives, their friends’ lives, and when in healthcare, their patients’ and residents’ lives. Empowering women in the workplace and in the healthcare workplace requires organizations and their leadership to consider representation.