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To Improve Patient Safety, Four Ways Healthcare Organizations Must Think Differently

HealthStream recently interviewed Bryan Warren, the Director of Healthcare Solutions at Select International, to get his insight on how organizations can build a patient-centered and patient safety-focused culture. He shared these four suggestions for rethinking processes.

April 01, 2021

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The Transition to Value-Based Care Presents a Challenge to Post-Acute and Non-Acute Care: Podcast

Post-acute and non-acute care are changing dramatically with the transition to value-based care. Organizations must ramp up their attention to competency, care quality, and efficiency to establish themselves as the providers of choice to work with acute care hospitals. Employees are key to this change, and HealthStream provides solutions to help organizations invest in creating highly trained and competent staff across the continuum of care.

April 01, 2021

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The Importance of Emotional Intelligence for Healthcare Staff

This post is taken from a recent podcast recording with Bryan Warren, the Director of Healthcare Solutions at Select International, a HealthStream partner that helps organizations identify the necessary behavioral competencies of successful employees.

April 01, 2021

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How All-Pervasive ACA Uncertainty Worries a Healthcare CFO

For a bird’s-eye view of the current healthcare climate and a forecast of what’s ahead, we spoke with Joanne Aquilina, CFO at Bethesda Health in South Florida, focusing on several key factors affecting healthcare today and tomorrow.

April 01, 2021

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Preparing For the Future of Healthcare and Promoting Health: HealthStream Living Labs

Richard Galentino shares his vision for the future of healthcare, where we have to address resource constraints, as well as where HealthStream’s Living Labs program is headed.

April 01, 2021

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Continuing Education is Important for Nurses and Everyone Else in Healthcare

The orientation towards lifelong learning may be one of the most important competencies healthcare staff must possess for future success, and it will be up to employers to harness and engage new generations in untold and different ways.

April 01, 2021

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Three Focus Areas When Fighting Healthcare Employee Turnover

Memorial Hermann leadership decided it was imperative that Human Resources (HR) take on the System’s retention issues. The group concluded that they should focus their efforts in three areas and assigned a team to each initiative.

April 01, 2021

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Improving Healthcare Compliance Through Education and Training

HCCS has helped us propel our compliance training and other online education programs into the 21st century,” Kay says. “I’ve seen enough of the other courses to know that if you do compliance training online, HCCS does it better than anyone else.”

April 01, 2021

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Helping Medical Associations Avoid Conflicts of Interest: Case Study

In order to maintain their reputations for integrity and impartiality, medical associations for all kinds of specialties have to be vigilant about avoiding and identifying conflicts of interest among their members.

April 01, 2021

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Three Essential Best Practices for HIPAA Compliance

Three essential best practices for HIPAA compliance are to monitor and update BAAs, monitor and audit access, and perform adequate and routine risk analyses.

April 01, 2021

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Reviewing and Managing COI Disclosures in the CMS Open Payments Database

Hospitals and other healthcare providers must monitor payments made to their affiliated physicians and mid-level providers. Using available technology, a query can be completed in just a few minutes.

April 01, 2021

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Using HealthStream Customer Data to Reconfigure Mandatory Training: Living Labs

Richard Galentino shares how HealthStream assisted a healthcare system to assess and change its mandatory training system and change the frequency of training delivery to save time and resources while ensuring compliance and staff competence.

April 01, 2021

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Engaging HealthStream Customers to Solve Big Healthcare Problems: Living Labs

Hear Richard Galentino explain why HealthStream decided to undertake these ambitious projects in Living Labs projects and how some of the findings are leading to real transformation in the practice of healthcare.

April 01, 2021

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Common Issues and Disparities in Healthcare for LGBTQ Patients

There are pronounced disparities in access to healthcare, appropriateness of care and patient experience exist in the LGBTQ community.

April 01, 2021

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Healthcare Employees Who Leave: The Opportunity Cost

HealthStream’s Second Opinions Podcast series features healthcare experts and their take on issues impacting the industry. We recently interviewed Elliot Clark, Chairman and CEO of SharedXpertise Media and HRO Today, a magazine focused on Human Resources leadership.

April 01, 2021

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State of the Industry: Established Competencies Will Drive Better Practices in Clinical Research

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.

April 01, 2021

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Creating a Culture of Lifelong Learning in Healthcare: Best Practices

eLearning is a great tool for RNs and for management’s efforts to foster a culture of lifelong learning. We need to help nurses develop and move away from task orientation to understand the bigger picture of patient care.

April 01, 2021

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Six Things to Understand About MACRA

Because of MACRA, 2021 will be the year of great surprises for physicians and a catalyst year for retirements, for movement to larger groups, and for various other changes that will forever essentially alter the practice of medicine.

April 01, 2021

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Best Practices in Providing Affirming Care for LGBTQ Patients

Being mindful of gender identity, sexual orientation and behavior as well as our own assumptions can help us to provide more affirming care for patients. This will result in better outcomes and an improved patient experience for LGBTQ patients.

April 01, 2021

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2017 Open Payments Database: Managing Physician Conflicts of Interest

With the annual publication every summer of the CMS open payments database, healthcare providers can manage risk to their financial health, tax-exempt status, and reputation by implementing a process to monitor payments made to their affiliated physicians.

April 01, 2021