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Three Key Trends Identified in the 2018 Annual Medical Staff Credentialing Report

The 2018 Annual Medical Staff Credentialing Survey identified big trends in terms of paperless credentialing, Automation of OPPE efforts, and general centralization and standardization of credentialing and privileging functions.

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Elevating Resuscitation Practice at Mercy Health

Mercy Health transitioned to resuscitation training from HealthStream to strive for excellence in resuscitation. The training program incorporates simulation-based technology that enhances the learner’s experience through active application of knowledge and performance critique tools.

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Rising patient populations, smaller workforce challenge hospice, palliative care providers

A rapidly growing senior population looking to age in place and receive end of life care away from healthcare institutions, is putting an increasing strain on the understaffed hospice and palliative care community.

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10 Trends for 2019 That Are Redefining Care Across the Continuum – Part 1

This blog post, based on a webinar, examines several of the major trends that are redefining care across the continuum for 2019, from demographics and the changing and growing senior population to increased M/A activity involving all care environments.

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ICD-10 Updates for 2018 Highlight Rising Importance of Proper HCC Data Capture

ICD-10 updates for 2018 reflect the increasingly important need to document and code Hierarchical Condition Categories (HCCs) properly.

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Suggestions for Making Healthcare Compliance More Engaging -- Part 2

When we try to keep healthcare compliance training as engaging as possible, it is more likely to succeed. That requires you to incorporate humor, use video wherever effective, explain concepts on a personal level, and tell stories that engage the learner.

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Effects of poor communication patterns between nurses & providers

Learn how the effects of poor communication in healthcare between nurses, healthcare professionals, and providers occur for a variety of reasons from HealthStream.

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Untangle the Complex Issue of Healthcare Compensation Management

Compensation is key to achieving three critical business outcomes: engagement, retention, and improved performance.

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Potential Paths Forward for Lessening the Healthcare Regulatory Burden

Recommended regulation reduction solutions are wide in scope and fairly ambitious, as far as what the government should do. One starting place is to admit regulation’s negative impacts on outcomes.

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5 Key Findings from the 2018 Annual Medical Staff Credentialing Report-Part One

In order to explore issues common in the medical staff credentialing process in more detail, a survey was conducted by VerityStream between December 2017 and January 2018. On a few key issues responses changed from the previous survey to the current survey.

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Strategies to Improve Health Literacy

There is an undeniable link between health literacy and health outcomes, but few Americans have the proficiency needed to manage their health. Here are some suggestions for improving it.

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Swap Spreadsheets for a Sound Healthcare Compensation Management Strategy

Using a compensation management solution takes compensation away from being a once-year conversation, and makes it a part of everyday business functions.

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9 Suggestions for Making Healthcare Compliance More Engaging -- Part 1

When the effort is made to keep compliance training engaging, it is more likely to succeed. That requires you to keep the training on the shorter side and as interesting as possible with elements that include gamification and personalized learning.

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Bullying Is Disastrous for Healthcare—Nine Things to Know

This blog post links to nine things we must understand about incivility and bullying in healthcare, in order to lessen their impact and prevent them whenever possible.

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Use More Frequent Rewards to Improve Healthcare Employee Retention

More frequent rewards, be those in the form of money or other compensation elements, were found to keep employees as much as eight times more engaged than those who receive annual compensation or bonuses.

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Understanding the Conditions of Participation (COPs) for Home Health Agencies in 2018

The new Conditions of Participation (CoPs) are transforming the rulebook for Home Health. They are asking the home health industry to start working toward patient-centered, integrated care management and to use more data to make decisions.

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Six Guidelines for Incorporating Adult Learning Principles in Healthcare Compliance Training

Compliance Education will fail if it doesn’t match the learning requirements of its audience. Effective compliance training can help every employee understand their compliance obligations and make them extensions of the compliance team.

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Understanding Resuscitation Guidelines and Their Source… ILCOR

ILCOR was established in 1993 as a not-for-profit organization with a mission to put together and share international consensus statements or guidelines for resuscitation.

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Older Adults and Care Transitions—Improving Outcomes

Frailty, in combination with other risk factors, increases an older patient’s vulnerability to a difficult transition of care and re-hospitalization. Identifying it and making allowances for its effects can help improve outcomes for this vulnerable population.

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Is Your Credentialing Process Really Electronic?

Make sure you don’t claim to provide electronic credentialing when you really aren’t—this will just be a source of irritation to providers when their expectations aren’t met. The key is to be paperless throughout the process.

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