Effective Communication Skills for Healthcare Professionals to Improve Readmissions

In today’s healthcare culture, the manner in which information is conveyed by clinicians is as important as the information itself. Here we discuss vital communication skills for reducing readmissions.

How a Pandemic Prompted a Shift towards Telehealth and Online Learning

Whatever doubts there were about the efficiency and usability of telehealth before this year, the global pandemic has allayed them. Telehealth has been used to keep the at-risk at home and reduce the spread of infection while ensuring appointments are kept, especially in behavioral healthcare.

What Is Patient Compliance in Healthcare?

Patient Compliance involves following the recommendations of healthcare professionals in such areas as medication treatment, therapy, diagnostic tests, and lifestyle changes. Learn my noncompliance is common and what to do about it.

Avoiding Hospice Caregiver Burnout

Working as a professional caregiver in a hospice, at whatever level of care, or other palliative care setting can be stressful. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 62% of hospice and palliative care clinicians had suffered from burnout. It’s not hard to understand why.

Making the Case for Supporting Nurse Competency with Jane®

Jane® plays a vital role in nurse development, rather than a punitive one. The tool’s main objective is to identify the areas where clinicians need assistance, and then creating personalized development plans for improving nurse competency.

Improve the Healthcare Revenue Cycle-Compliance Relationship to Lessen Enforcement Action Risk

In order to combat painful judgments involving monetary penalties and extensive CIAs, which exact a heavy toll on already strained healthcare organizations, revenue cycle and compliance departments should start operating interdependently, with frequent communication and collaboration.

Physicians’ Opioid Prescription Choices for Patients Are Being Affected by New Laws

It’s important for the physicians involved in writing opioid prescription to understand this is not a criticism of past care, but rather a way for them to learn a better approach based on evidence currently available on this evolving medical issue.

Five Guidelines for Building or Enhancing Your Nurse Residency Program

Here are five guidelines focused on helping healthcare organizations to create a nurse residency program that builds nurse confidence, improves outcomes, and increases retention.

Healthcare Compliance Training During COVID-19

Healthcare compliance is feeling the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Some compliance regulations requiring training have been temporarily suspended in the face of the pandemic, but they have not been cancelled. Healthcare organizations need to be ready to resume compliance training post-crisis.

Reimagining Online Mental Health Education

New possibilities are now available for digital mental health education, especially for healthcare organizations, with the hope of expanding training opportunities and public health awareness around mental health, substance use, and suicide prevention.

Understanding the Physician Payment Sunshine Act Expansion

The Physician Payment Sunshine Act, a component of the Affordable Care Act of 2010, is being expanded to additional healthcare professionals, effective January 1, 2021. Learn here about the expansion and HealthStream solutions to make compliance easier and more effective.

5 Most Useful Nursing Communication Skills

Good Communication skills are one of the most important attributes of a successful nurse. They make it easier to work with colleagues and support care that is patient-centric, on the primary goals of healthcare. Here are five of the most important communication skills for nurses.

Healthcare Trends in Review: Big Tech Brings Big Changes

Healthcare in the time of COVID has relied heavily on the past decade’s tech. HealthStream’s Top Ten Trends Webinars take a closer look at what lies ahead.

HealthStream Receives 15 Brandon Hall Excellence in Technology Awards for 2020

HealthStream is proud to announce that four of our leading solutions have received 15 Brandon Hall Excellence in Technology Awards for 2020. These winners demonstrate HealthStream’s ongoing commitment to technological innovation in healthcare workforce development.

Best Practices for Healthcare Training During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Nursing was already a profession with engagement and satisfaction challenges—then came COVID-19. The pandemic has served to exacerbate problems that already existed among clinicians. Healthcare training needs to accommodate the difficulties of learning and nursing during COVID-19.