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Five Assisted Living and Senior Living Workforce Challenges for 2019

Like many areas of the care continuum, assisted living and other senior residential care environments currently are under significant workforce pressures, from an operational and financial direction.

April 01, 2021

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How to Promote Lifelong Learning Within Your Healthcare Organization

A recent HealthStream webinar, “Lifelong Learning: The Gift that keeps on Giving,” focused extensively on why lifelong learning is necessary in a clinical environment and suggested ways to promote lifelong learning within an organization.

April 01, 2021

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Healthcare Trend Watch—Amazon Disrupting Healthcare at Many Levels

Dysfunction in the healthcare industry makes it susceptible for disruption from outside sources who are not tied to the current way of doing things. One good example of this is Amazon’s recent announcement of expansion into the healthcare sector.

April 01, 2021

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Uncovering Healthcare Conflicts of Interest (COIs) May Require Creativity

To uncover healthcare conflicts of interest that must be addressed, Sacks suggests that compliance officers use standard surveys and questionnaires, supplemented by the Open Payments Database and Google.

April 01, 2021

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10 Healthcare Trends to Watch in 2019

HealthStream’s Robin L. Rose looks ahead at 2019, with an eye to big picture trends that could have a significant impact on how we provide and experience care.

April 01, 2021

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Using Artificial Intelligence to Enhance Clinical Development

In the first-ever, AI-based critical thinking assessment for nursing, a nurse will use a chat interface, powered by artificial intelligence, to identify a problem, indicate what led them to identify the problem, as well as the immediate actions and rationale, as well as level of urgency.

April 01, 2021

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Five New Articles Address the Future of Healthcare

Here are links to five recent HealthStream articles that discuss where healthcare is headed, Conflict of Interest (COI) developments, Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Healthcare, Compliance, and the next wave of ICD-10.

April 01, 2021

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Unacknowledged Conflicts of Interest Create a Big Problem: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Avoiding and preventing conflict of interest (COI) is an important focus of healthcare compliance. When the medical director at a prominent research hospital failed to disclose his strong industry ties, it created a major headache for everyone involved.

April 01, 2021

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Lifelong Learning Has a Purpose Throughout a Healthcare Career

A recent HealthStream webinar, “Lifelong Learning: The Gift that keeps on Giving,” offered three examples of healthcare team members at different stages of their careers and discussed some specific learning needs or activities that might be recommended for their particular profiles.

April 01, 2021

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Recent ICD-10 Updates Reflect Push Toward Improving Outpatient and Ambulatory Documentation

The 2018 coding changes for ICD-10 highlight and attempt to address, as they were perhaps meant to, the disparity in data capture in outpatient and ambulatory Clinical Documentation Improvement, or CDI, efforts and their inpatient counterparts.

April 01, 2021

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Where We Stand with Healthcare Conflict of Interest (COI) Compliance

What role does healthcare leadership play in conflict of interest (COI) compliance? When support from the very top does not exist, COI compliance becomes inconsistent, with some departments excelling and others falling behind.

April 01, 2021

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Six Benefits of Automating Healthcare Checklist Management

Even though paper checklists help to ensure consistency, prevent errors, and create a standard of performance for all employees, there are problems inherent to relying on them for recordkeeping. Here are six benefits of automation with HealthStream Checklist Management.

April 01, 2021

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Changing Patient Population and Reimbursement Issues Challenge Skilled Nursing, Long-Term Care Providers

Long-term care and skilled nursing facilities are facing increased competition and scrutiny, but through staffing enhancements and other adaptations can improve services and enhance operational excellence.

April 01, 2021

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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.

April 01, 2021

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Eliminate Paperwork to Create a More Valuable Healthcare Checklist Experience: Case Study

Streamline your approach to checklists by using a checklist automation tool. Nancy Warthman of Alternate Solutions Health Network (ASHN) explains how her organization utilizes HealthStream’s Checklist Management tool to standardize and document validation of skills and track completions.

April 01, 2021

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Moving to Personalized Development Plans for Healthcare Clinicians

The components of HealthStream’s Clinical Development Solution work together in pursuit of one goal—to optimize both business and clinical outcomes by engaging the clinician in a personalized competency and career development journey.

April 01, 2021

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Recent ICD-10 Updates Focus on Better Data Collection

The focus on Hierarchical Condition Categories (HCCs) for the 2018 ICD-10 Updates emphasizes the growing need for more thorough documentation around the treatment of chronically ill patients.

April 01, 2021

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Important Healthcare Revenue Cycle Risks to Avoid in 2019

A recent article in RevCycle Intelligence had much to say about the future outlook for healthcare revenue cycle management, especially the most prominent organizational risks for 2019.

April 01, 2021

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Physician Groups, Clinics Will Continue To Battle Administrative & Financial Burdens in 2019

Physician groups and clinics continue to face enormous challenges around administrative tasks and reimbursement. What can they do to streamline operations and ensure less bad debt?

April 01, 2021

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Four Ways Healthcare Managers Can Encourage Lifelong Learning Among Their Team

A recent HealthStream webinar, “Lifelong Learning: The Gift that keeps on Giving,” focused extensively on the value of lifelong learning in a clinical environment and address the responsibility of managers to encourage lifelong learning among staff.

April 01, 2021