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Challenges for Resuscitation across the Care Continuum

The care continuum involves many settings, including home health/hospice, ambulatory surgery, assisted living, and clinics. Care varies widely across the continuum from a traditional hospital environment, and these settings face unique challenges when it comes to resuscitation.

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13 Smart Things Every Medical Staff Services Professional Should Know

How well we react to the changes in our worklife is an indicator of how effective we will be in our profession. Here are 13 smart things that every medical staff professional should know.

April 01, 2021

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The Impact on Healthcare as Disasters Occur with Greater Frequency

Whether manmade or natural, disasters seem to be occurring much more often. This post discusses some examples and considerations about the impact on healthcare.

April 01, 2021

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Healthcare Trend Watch — We Need to Prepare for New Health Risks

Hotter temperatures, poorer air quality, mass casualty shootings, and an increased number of extreme weather events have healthcare organizations scrambling to adjust to a “new normal.” Events over the past several years have taught us that we may not be as prepared as we should be.

April 01, 2021

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Turn Mistakes into Opportunities for Performance Improvement: FPPE Action Plans

A medical or professional mistake may trigger a Focused Professional Practice Evaluation (FPPE) for cause. These recommendations can help organizations create an FPPE action plan that embodies a culture of learning and opportunity for improvement.

April 01, 2021

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Automate Provider References to Close The Credentialing Loop Faster

If you were to ask medical staff office employees about the most common obstacle to complete a credentialing file, the likely answer would be obtaining professional references, often the most labor-intensive and time-consuming step in this process.

April 01, 2021

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The Danger of Healthcare Conflicts of Interest and How to Identify and Prevent Them

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How to Improve Healthcare Hiring Outcomes – Best Practices

“Big data” can make an important difference in the world of healthcare hiring, retention, and employee satisfaction, according to Bryan Warren, Director of Healthcare Solutions, and Dr. Ted Kinney, Vice President of Research and Development, at Select International.

April 01, 2021

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Six Reasons to Focus on Training and Retaining Your Healthcare Coding Workforce

As much as a decade ago, healthcare staffing experts were warning of impending issues in healthcare revenue cycle departments. We now have an ongoing shortage of qualified coders, simultaneous with major emerging trends that complicate this area of healthcare.

April 01, 2021

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Major Issues for the Behavioral Healthcare Sector in 2019

Behavioral Health is a care environment facing major challenges, similar to much of the rest of healthcare. Here are some of the issues facing this area of healthcare that will have an impact on its workforce and outcomes in the immediate future.

April 01, 2021

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Healthcare Trend Watch — Healthcare Costs Are Difficult for Many Patients

The finances involved in healthcare are becoming more and more of a problem. A strong patient trend is that many people cannot afford to get sick because the care costs too much.

April 01, 2021

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Responding to a Conflict of Interest Violation: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Fires Former Acclaimed Medical Director

How an organization responds to a serious conflict of interest is very important and can have a great deal of influence on its reputation after a violation becomes public knowledge. Here’s how Memorial Sloan Kettering is responding to its lapses.

April 01, 2021

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Emergency and Urgent Care Services Adapt to Greater Presence in the Healthcare Continuum

Freestanding emergency rooms and urgent-care clinics meet the consumer demand for convenience, but they cannot be all things to all people—therefore education and outreach are in order.

April 01, 2021

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Personalized Clinical Development Plans, Driven by Artificial Intelligence

The automated, personalized development plan will include recommended learning activities based on the learner’s knowledge gaps, and a preceptor card (personalized facilitation) that can be provided to the nurse’s preceptor to help develop critical thinking.

April 01, 2021

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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