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Healthcare Compliance Professionals Increasingly Have Varied Backgrounds

Healthcare has historically grown its leaders from within. Can compliance officers and other c-suite professionals from different industries add value and help create a better future in healthcare?

April 01, 2021

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Creating Healthcare Experts—6 Things to Understand about Adult Learners

Education done correctly can have a huge impact on patient outcomes. Here are six important concepts to keep in mind when creating educational experiences for adult learners.

April 01, 2021

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Resuscitation Training Tips For Preventing Learner Injuries

One goal in any Resuscitation Certification Training Program is to avoid preventing any injuries. Here are some general tips for protecting learners from hurting themselves.

April 01, 2021

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Sexual Harassment Can Create Havoc In Healthcare Settings

The healthcare industry isn’t immune to sexual harassment, and because it has concentrated power in certain positions such as physicians, training and reporting can pose significant obstacles.

April 01, 2021

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Forrest General Hospital Uses HealthStream Learning to Transform Clinical Development

Forrest General Hospital needed to boost clinical competency skills among staff. Volumes for their new Simulation Center have risen from between 10 and 20 to approximately 200 employees per month, for training that includes Codes simulations.

April 01, 2021

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Surviving the Impending Shakeout in Non-Acute Care

Not every post and non-acute provider that exists in the marketplace today will survive the transition to a pay-for-performance system.

April 01, 2021

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Surviving the Impending Value-based Shakeout in Non-Acute Care

Not every post and non-acute provider that exists in the marketplace today will survive the transition to a pay-for-performance system. Here are some areas where they should be focusing improvement efforts.

April 01, 2021

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2018 Healthcare Workforce Trends: Succession Planning and Employee Turnover Are Challenges

Two significant talent management challenges that are going to continue to affect healthcare are succession planning and turnover. How organizations choose to address them will be very important in the near future.

April 01, 2021

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Understand and Satisfy the Emergency Preparedness Rule with These Resources

In preparing for a CMS site visit to evaluate Emergency Preparedness Rule compliance, organizations should reference CMS and YNHHS-CEPDR resources.

April 01, 2021

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The Evolving Role of the Healthcare Compliance Officer

Compliance officers in the healthcare arena must be nimble thinkers, not just naysayers and rule quoters, in order to find success and add value to their organizations.

April 01, 2021

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Solutions for Drug Diversion’s Role in the Opioid Crisis

Most reports on the opioid crisis in America focus on individuals who receive a prescription for an opioid pain killer and then become a victim of opioid dependence. But what about the issue of dependence that occurs within the walls of the hospital, connected to Drug Diversion?

April 01, 2021

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The Looming Nurse Leadership Shortage—Are You Prepared?

The combination of an aging nursing population and not enough new nurses coming in to fill those roles plays a large part in today’s nursing shortage. With this nursing shortage there will come a shortage of nurse leaders.

April 01, 2021

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Five Resuscitation Training Workarounds for Staff with Back and Spinal Issues

Here are three resuscitation training accommodations for staff members challenged by back and spinal issues.

April 01, 2021

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The Impact of Patient Identification Errors

On average, hospitals have 30% of all claims denied and an average of 35% of these denied claims are attributed to inaccurate patient identification or inaccurate/incomplete patient information.

April 01, 2021

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Best Practices in Defense of a Cybersecurity Breach

The threat to the security of information is an evolving one, and the key to real vigilance incorporates both technology and training. Make sure that your organization helps employees to understand their vital role in the protection of this information.

April 01, 2021

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Consolidating Learning Into Unified LMS Facilitated Epic Adoption at Hartford Healthcare

Hartford HealthCare employed HealthStream’s Initiative Management to successfully train employees on and implement a new EMR roll out across the organization, working with HealthStream’s Professional Services Implementation team.

April 01, 2021

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Focusing On Relationships in Healthcare Learning and Development

Redefining relationships in the healthcare employee training and workforce development areas can leader to faster, more effective learning.

April 01, 2021

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Three Resuscitation Training Best Practices for Staff with Asthma or COPD

Here are three resuscitation training accommodations for staff members who are challenged by asthma or COPD.

April 01, 2021

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Prepare for Disruption as Demographic Changes Hit Non-Acute Care

Approximately 10,000 Baby Boomers are reaching the age of 65 every day. Research shows that these Boomers would prefer to age in place which means new and different opportunities will emerge in the post and non-acute markets to meet these needs.

April 01, 2021

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Big Picture Trends Changing Healthcare in 2018

Healthcare is in a time of change. This article presents ten trends that are redefining healthcare, including turnover remedies, the need to speed up and automate credentialing and privileging, and healthcare that’s moving outside the hospital.

April 01, 2021