Reframing Well-Being in the Healthcare Workplace Culture

Burnout is a complex issue and healthcare leaders need real strategies that they can begin implementing today if they want to be effective in combatting burnout. HealthStream and Psych Hub can help your organization provide compassionate and effective care that will enhance the well-being of healthcare professionals and do the same for patient care. Contact HealthStream to learn more about this solution. In addition, Psych Hub has a new podcast, “The Burnout Antidote.” Listen to and download the podcast on your favorite streaming service.

May 28^th, 2024

Fortifying Healthcare Cybersecurity: Combating Black Basta Ransomware Threats

In the face of the rising cybersecurity threats, it's crucial now more than ever for healthcare organizations to fortify their defenses, especially in light of the recent advisory by a coalition of top security institutions including the FBI, CISA, HHS, and MS-ISAC.

May 24^th, 2024

Contribute to Big Changes: Social Determinants of Health

Addressing social determinants of health and educating healthcare staff makes direct progress toward health equity, a world where every person has the opportunity to attain their highest level of health and care. Social determinants of health have a lasting impact on society, creating inequities in access to housing, education, wealth, and employment. All of this puts people at higher risk of poor health.

May 23^rd, 2024

Top 4 Reasons Why Leadership Education and Organizational Initiative Alignment is Indispensable

In the rapidly evolving landscape of healthcare, the alignment of leadership education pathways with organizational initiatives stands as a critical element for success. It may seem like an intuitive part of any strategic plan, and therefore not a necessary focus, but there are some compelling reasons why this is not the case.

May 23^rd, 2024

Advancing Credentialing: Insights from the 2024 National Forum

Each organization that presented and participated in this year’s NCF represents a piece of the credentialing puzzle for credentialed and privileged providers. Their forward-thinking approaches around topics like AI and workforce wellness will ultimately help improve the quality of healthcare. Our industry’s commitment to the provider experience, process improvement and patient care is inspiring, and we at HealthStream fully embrace it.

May 22^nd, 2024

Navigating the Changes to Health and Human Services: 42 CFR Part 2 - Care’s Act

May 16^th, 2024

Planning Ahead: Healthcare Leaders Prepare for 2025

The healthcare industry is constantly evolving, and with each year comes an array of challenges and opportunities. For leaders in healthcare, the key to not only surviving but thriving lies in anticipation and strategic planning. As we look forward, healthcare executives are already laying the groundwork for 2025 budgets, adapting to market trends, and reshaping their skill set to lead effectively.

May 14^th, 2024

Leading With Impact: Mastering Leadership in Nursing

HealthStream and Sigma have tools that can help you invest in nursing leadership development. A strong commitment to staff development is essential to your organization’s recruiting, satisfaction and retention strategies. In addition to the courseware, Sigma has additional resources to assist in career development, such as coaching and mentoring and offers regular events focused on current nursing leadership topics. To learn more about the courses offered by Sigma, reach out to HealthStream today and learn more about how to build a pipeline of great leaders within your organization.

May 9^th, 2024

Building for Success: Empowering Tomorrow’s Nurse Leaders

Transformational nurse leadership is unlikely to happen without strong educational support. HealthStream and Sigma have partnered to provide exceptional content to support developing nurse leaders. Contact HealthStream today to learn more about creating nurse leaders for your organization.

May 9^th, 2024

Three Steps to Maintaining Compliance in Post-Acute Healthcare

HealthStream can help your organization, your leaders, and your staff feel more confident in the care that is being provided to residents. A dedicated team of experts in compliance provides up-to-date information on changing and emerging regulations while a dedicated instructional design team provides engaging content that prepares staff with the latest information and best practices. Contact HealthStream today to learn more about building confidence amongst your team.

May 8^th, 2024

CredentialStream Awarded ‘Users Love Us’ Badge in G2’s Report

HealthStream’s commitment to providing credentialing software that improves patient care remains unwavering. We are grateful for the positive feedback we have received from our customers and are committed to maintaining our high standards. We invite you to explore how our credentialing solutions can improve health outcomes while increasing time-to-revenue by visiting our G2 profile.

May 8^th, 2024

CredentialStream Awarded G2’s Spring Leader 2024 Badge

At HealthStream, we strive to enable our customers to credential providers with ease. For us, there’s no better compliment than a happy customer and we are grateful for the positive feedback we have received to date.

May 8^th, 2024

Dyna AI: Bringing in a New Era of Fast, Trustworthy Clinical Decision Support

AI can create opportunities for your providers to get safe, accurate, curated information where they need it most - at the bedside. Dyna AI provides curated content that you can trust. To learn more about EBSCO Dynamic Health contact HealthStream today.

May 7^th, 2024

Empowering Clinical Excellence: Introducing Competency Suite

HealthStream is offering Competency Suite+ at an affordable rate to help healthcare organizations manage education costs while still providing exceptional resources and exceptional value. Contact HealthStream today to learn more about this solution.

May 6^th, 2024

Time-Saving Clinical Onboarding Tips for Healthcare Leaders

Where healthcare complexities and the need for quality patient care intersect with healthcare professionals’ well-being, staffing shortages and burnout emerge as critical challenges. Healthcare leaders can navigate these challenges by seeking practical solutions, fostering resilient teams, and ensuring exceptional care. By drawing on professional insights and utilizing time-saving onboarding tips, leaders can implement efficient onboarding practices to help reduce staffing shortages and address burnout.

May 3^rd, 2024

Nurse Onboarding Made Right: 6 Key Steps for Success

Nurses work diligently to deliver care to patients despite staffing shortages. This demand to provide high-quality patient care with fewer and fewer resources, including staff, creates the perfect environment for burnout, especially for new grads. Ill-equipped preceptors can also increase the risk of new nurses leaving their positions. These six key steps to improve the nurse onboarding process will turn the tide on turnover rates.

May 2^nd, 2024

CPCS® Certification: The Gold Standard for Credentialing Professionals

The Certified Provider Credentialing Specialist (CPCS®) certification offered by the National Association Medical Staff Services (NAMSS) has become the gold standard for those working in healthcare credentialing. Get all the details on this designation and the opportunities it opens in this post.

April 29^th, 2024

Improve Decision-making, Reduce Variability, and Optimize Patient Care with New Smart Logic Functionality

CredentialStream just keeps getting better! See how the recently released Privilege smart logic functionality will help improve clinical and non-clinical decision-making, reduce variability, and optimize patient care delivery.

April 26^th, 2024

3 Areas of Focus for Nursing Informatics Competencies

This blog post examines three nursing informatics competencies and connects them to better patient care, healthcare initiatives and goals like lower readmission rates, and an improved overall sense of job fulfillment and engagement for nurses.

April 25^th, 2024

The Integration of Artificial Intelligence in Leadership Development

The importance of strong leadership in the evolving healthcare business landscape is clear. The optimal path to create strong leaders is not always as clear. While not all of the attention on Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been positive, the emergence of (AI) in leadership development is creating new opportunities to help develop critical leadership skills.

April 19^th, 2024