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15 Conflict-of-Interest Best Practices for Academic Medical Centers

In an article in the May 2014 issue of Compliance Today, Bill Sacks, Vice President and co-founder of HCCS, a HealthStream company, describes how new NIH regulations are forcing academic medical centers (AMCs) to examine and update their conflict-of-interest policies.

April 01, 2021

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What It Takes To Be a Successful Hospital Emergency Department

Are you curious about what it takes to outperform your emergency department peers and sustain that level of performance year after year? One of the most common questions we get as we work with our Patient Insights customers is “what are your top performers doing to be so successful?”

April 01, 2021

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What Hourly Rounding is NOT and Why It Often Fails

From patient satisfaction to leader accountability, HealthStream analyzes what hourly rounding is not, why it often fails, and differences from traditional practice.

April 01, 2021

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Best Practices for Hospital Recognition Programs & Rewards

Here are three hospital recognition programs and reward best practices HealthStream's partners crafted, unique to their very own healthcare environments.

April 01, 2021

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What is Hourly Rounding? A Healthcare Best Practice

This blog post initiates our series of Best Practices from Baptist Leadership Group, a HealthStream Company. Every week we will share information from BLG that demonstrates their expansive understanding of the challenges faced by healthcare organizations and the solutions they have identified for improving the patient experience and patient and business outcomes.

April 01, 2021

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Hospital Implements EMR System Using HealthStream for Training

This HealthStream customer spotlight was featured in our most recent issue of PX Advisor. Fill out the form at the end of this post to download the full issue. Subscribe to future issues here.

April 01, 2021

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Essential Best Practices in Nurse Preceptor Training – White Paper

(This white paper was excerpted in the Winter 2014 issue of HealthStream's PX Advisor.)

April 01, 2021

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Using Predictive Markets and Gamification for Healthcare Research

Do you wish you could be more confident in the product and marketing decisions you make for your healthcare organization?

April 01, 2021

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Triaging Post-Acute Care Retention and Turnover

This article describes how, given industry changes and readmission concerns, the post-acute care industry approach to retention and turnover must change radically.

April 01, 2021

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The Leader's Role in Healthcare Staff Rewards and Recognition

This HealthStream blog, part of our Coaching Best Practice series, discusses the role that leaders should play in rewards and recognition programs for healthcare staff.

April 01, 2021

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Healthcare Rewards and Recognition: 6 Leader Responsibility Lessons

This blog post, taken from HealthStream's coaching best practices series, shares six lessons for healthcare leaders about their responsibility for rewards and recognition.

April 01, 2021

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Quality in Healthcare: Q&A with TeamHealth’s Chief Medical Officer

This article addresses how the world of healthcare quality is changing for hospitals and physician groups.

April 01, 2021

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Healthcare Compliance Guidance: The ABCs of Workplace Harassment

This blog post details how all healthcare facilities across the nation need to take harassment prevention training seriously.

April 01, 2021

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Primary Nursing Improves Outcomes

There have been times in my career when a change has been introduced, and I cannot for the life of me figure out why the decision was made to alter how we were currently doing things—why we’re changing structures or processes that seemed to be effective and working fine.

April 01, 2021

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Improved CE Management: A HealthStream Customer-Guided Success

Emory Healthcare is a six-hospital system with multiple physician offices in and around Atlanta, Georgia. As the HealthStream Learning Center System Administrator, Pat understands the value of continuing education. She is passionate about helping Emory staff get the credits they need to keep doing what they love doing.

April 01, 2021

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Medical Device Training's Impact on Healthcare Quality Improvements

This blog post excerpts an article by Danielle R. Coleman, Director of Medical Technologies, HealthStream, in the Fall 2014 issue of HealthStream's PX Advisor, our quarterly magazine focused on improving the patient experience.

April 01, 2021

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The Role of Continuing Education (CE) in Improving Patient Outcomes

The 2010 Affordable Care Act has initiated broad and transformational change to our healthcare system, with reimbursements shifting from fee-for-service care to value-based care. In response to the changes upon us, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) launched a two-year initiative to assess and provide thought leadership on transforming the nursing profession.

April 01, 2021

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Make Certain Performance Rewards for Healthcare Staff Are Adaptable

One of the most recognizable influences in today’s workplace environment is diversity. A recognition program therefore should embrace creative options to reward all involved and to keep the initiative from going stale.

April 01, 2021

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Make Sure Rewards for Healthcare Staff Are Relevant and Timely

Leaders should know what forms of reward and recognition mean the most to their employees. The Leadership Institute recommends utilizing a Reward and Recognition Motivation Assessment which may be filled out by new employees at the time they complete their pre-hire paperwork and then forwarded to each person’s leader.

April 01, 2021

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Use Various Public Recognition Strategies to Reward Healthcare Staff

We believe that everyone in an organization deserves a chance to be a hero—to make a difference; thus we recommend tiers of recognition and awards. Your award system can be similar or take a different form. Use your own judgment about the culture you want to create. And remember it may take time to make it happen.

April 01, 2021