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Exploring Nursing Education Curriculum Changes: Why, What, and Best Practices

Millennial college students have many strengths thanks to their tech awareness, but can come up short in other areas Smart educators will assess their own programs to see where they can help bridge those gaps.

April 01, 2021

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Is Your Practice Prepared for MACRA?

Value-based purchasing is part of CMS’s quality strategy to reform how healthcare is delivered and paid for by the Medicare program. Once fully implemented, MIPS-eligible clinicians face a positive or negative 9% payment adjustment. For most practices that penalty structure will be unsustainable in the long run. That’s why it is critical for practices impacted by this program take steps now to prepare for 2017 reporting. If you haven’t done so already, we encourage you to talk with your HealthStream team to learn how we can help you satisfy MIPS reporting requirements.

April 01, 2021

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The Challenges of Care Transitions and Best Practices Resources

A number of research studies have illustrated processes and activities that hospitals can undertake to lower readmissions, including better discharge processes and better coordination of care with post-acute facilities and primary care doctors

April 01, 2021

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The Bedside Shift Report from the Patient’s Perspective

A positive transformation occurs in patient’s perception of their care when touch is added to a task. That is certainly true with the Bedside Shift Report (BSSR).

April 01, 2021

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A Prediction for the Future of Post-Acute Care

We know from the research from interviewing thousands of people that they prefer to be aging at home in their communities. This means that we have this huge opportunity to deliver post-acute and non-acute services in new different ways to people in the community.

April 01, 2021

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Three Keys to Success for the Future of Non-Acute Care: Podcast

We asked QEC Partners President Vickie Harris about the key to future success for non-acute care providers given the vast array of changes that are coming their way. She responded in our podcast that they need to focus on collaboration, specialization, and quality.

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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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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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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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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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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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

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What Can We Learn from the Latest “Open Payments” Data?

While it is difficult to draw conclusions based on the year to year fluctuations in data from the Open Payments Database, we can begin to see trends by analyzing the data over three years.

April 01, 2021

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HIPAA Audits: The Proof Is in the Process

The expense of staffing and technology related to HIPAA compliance can never be an excuse for failing to have an established audit and risk analysis process.

April 01, 2021

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Customers Aid Our Research on Infection Prevention: HealthStream Living Labs

The HealthStream Living Labs blog series’ purpose is to shed light on innovations in assessing and developing the healthcare workforce—ultimately improving the quality of healthcare. We looked at Infection Prevention & Control, which is important in any healthcare setting.

April 01, 2021

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HR Analytics Are Essential for Driving Organizational Performance in Healthcare

It has never been more important for your Human Resources Department to know the business and to step up as an integral component to the success of your healthcare organization. HR leadership must be able to validate their value and be able to speak in quantitative, objective terms.

April 01, 2021

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Predicting and Ensuring Physician Success: Assessments and Training

When it comes to physician-hospital alignment and physician engagement, you probably agree with Bryan Warren of Select International that there is no secret sauce for predicting success.

April 01, 2021

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ACA Section 1557: Open to Interpretation?

Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act requires the availability of qualified interpreters for any persons with limited English proficiency and can impose corrective action or monetary penalties for failure to comply.

April 01, 2021

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