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The Impact of Unconscious Bias on Healthcare

Unconscious bias often leads to false assumptions and negative outcomes for minority groups in the healthcare setting. We must focus on reducing the impact of unconscious biases on physician-patient interactions, which contributes to health disparities.

March 14, 2023

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Acuity-based scheduling: A promising strategy for optimizing patient care

There are multiple variables to balance when constructing shift schedules for healthcare staff. One key factor for hospital managers to consider is patient acuity, and yet there is much discussion about how to consider it when making staffing decisions.

March 02, 2023

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Ten Trends for 2023: Rising Temperatures and Generational Changes

Not all the top ten trends for 2023 have their roots in the pandemic. Climate change is becoming increasingly relevant to health and safety, meaning that healthcare leaders need to understand that impact and develop strategies to address the resulting health and safety issues created by this threat. As staffing was, is, and will continue to be a major issue in healthcare, leaders will also need to understand the unique characteristics of Generation Z as they join the workforce.

February 24, 2023

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Ten Trends for 2023: CMS Cuts and Other Disruptors

Changes in physician reimbursement and a renewed focus on the industry from key healthcare disruptors are two of the top ten trends for healthcare leaders to monitor. Both are likely to drive additional changes in how and where care is delivered.

February 23, 2023

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Not the Same Old Shift: Solving healthcare staffing needs with Workday and ShiftWizard

Workday and ShiftWizard share data that can help leaders make informed staffing decisions and easily determine staffing needs while engaging employees with self-scheduling opportunities. In addition, the integration between these two solutions helps to ensure better recording of time and attendance and a reduction of payroll errors.

February 22, 2023

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Performance Privileges - The Value of ​Volume Data

Gathering massive amounts of data allows organizations to compare themselves more accurately to other “like” organizations. Learn about volume data and how it can be used to help provide the best in patient care.

February 15, 2023

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Nurse Strikes are Scary, but License Verification Doesn’t Have to be

Nurse strikes are becoming more common. Learn how HR teams can expedite license verifications for temporary resources with Workforce Validate.

February 13, 2023

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APIs in Healthcare Learning

You’ve likely heard that APIs can magically transform business, reduce waste, speed processes, and improve bottom lines. What does this mean for healthcare, and specifically for healthcare learning? Let’s explore the advantages of using APIs and some specific use cases to illustrate the wide variety of ways in which they can help transform your learning workflows.

February 08, 2023

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Ten Trends for 2023: Hospital at Home and Integration of Behavioral Health and Primary Care

COVID-19 continues to make its mark on healthcare, but not all COVID-19 changes were temporary or negative. Providing acute-care to patients in their homes and integrating behavioral health and primary care are important innovations that have been fast-tracked as a result of the pandemic. The remaining 4 trends will be covered in future blogs.

February 02, 2023

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What Today’s Provider Enrollment Professionals Are Saying About Provider Data Management

Medical Services Professionals (MSPs) throughout the country agree their jobs require a lot of diligence, attention to detail, and patience. We’re on a mission to provide MSPs with actionable data they can use to improve their processes. Here’s what today’s Provider Enrollment Professionals had to say about Provider Data Management in our annual survey.

January 31, 2023

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Medical Fraud is on the Rise, Here's What to Watch Out For

Healthcare fraud, AKA false claims, is an expensive crime affecting individuals and healthcare organizations alike. Read about the risks and learn how to protect yourself with Workforce Validate.

January 26, 2023

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Ten Trends for 2023: Emerging Technology and Cybersecurity

COVID-19 will continue to have an impact on healthcare organizations for the foreseeable future; however, healthcare leaders will also need to focus on new and re-emerging issues in what are hopefully the waning days of the pandemic. The remaining 6 trends will be covered in future blogs.

January 25, 2023

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Your Top 5 Privileging Questions Answered: Requirements, Procedures, and More

Privileging involves requirements amongst providers and health systems and involves defined medical staff policies and procedures. HealthStream answers the top questions to come out of our Privileging 101 webinar series here.

January 24, 2023

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Physician Burnout and Provider Competency Management Can be Fixed by CredentialStream

80% of providers are dissatisfied with their healthcare organizations credentialing process. CredentialStream® is here to fix that.

January 18, 2023

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Ten Trends for 2023: Financial Woes and Staffing

The pandemic has exacerbated some operational and financial issues for healthcare leaders while also creating new ones. The future remains uncertain as the issues created by COVID-19 persist and combine with the flu and RSV, to continue to challenge the healthcare delivery system. The remaining 8 trends will be covered in future blogs.

January 17, 2023

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What does a home health care nurse do?

Home health nursing is one of the many career options available within the nursing profession. It is a choice for registered nurses (RNs), licensed practical nurses (LPNs), and nurse assistants (NAs). The educational requirements for a home health nurse are dependent on individual nursing certifications.

January 17, 2023

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How Enrollment Can Make or Break Your Financial Outcomes

Discover how staffing levels, and claims, including holds and write-offs, are impacted throughout the industry, either by the pandemic, payers, staffing, or others.

January 13, 2023

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Introducing Workforce Validate

Workforce Validate is a safe, easy and effective way to monitor workforce compliance. It alerts leaders and employees of expiring and expired licenses by checking literally hundreds of sources. Pre-built reports and dashboards make it easy for leaders to monitor compliance. Workforce Validate can eliminate the time-consuming process of manually checking sites and helps your organization to mitigate risk and feel confident that staff members that are on the floor are safe to be there.

January 13, 2023

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Scheduling & Diversity in Healthcare

Are your workforce scheduling practices in line with your DEI initiatives?

January 13, 2023

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Top Three Challenges for Today’s Health Plans and How CredentialStream's Network Module Tackles Them

Managing a health insurance plan today is riddled with challenges. Read on to learn about the top three challenges for today’s health plans and how Network can help tackle them.

January 10, 2023