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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.

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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.

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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.

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Solving Revenue Cycle Staffing and Hiring Shortages with the nThrive Transitions Program

Revenue cycle roles such as Patient Access reps, CDI Specialists, and other revenue cycle roles are either short in supply or limited on what they have available for qualified professionals in their market. The Transitions Program from nThrive can help solve this problem.

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Molding a Talent Strategy for Care Organizations

Successful organizations across the continuum of care must define a hiring strategy built around specific behavioral attributes. The ones who do so improve patient and resident satisfaction scores, build a more engaged workforce, and often improve employee retention.

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Competency Must Be an Integral Part of the Privileging Process

Hospitals have been granting clinical privileges for approximately 40-50 years, but for much of that time period, privileging systems have not addressed current clinical competency in any meaningful way. In recent years this has been changing, by necessity.

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Creating a culture of safety – a leadership alert

The Joint Commission has found inadequate safety culture to be a significant contributing factor to adverse outcomes. To support this finding, it recently emphasized the need for healthcare leadership to create an effective culture of safety.

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How Will Your Medical Practice Respond to the MACRA?

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has finalized its plans to implement the sweeping payment reforms called for under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) of 2015.

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Improving Provider Data Management Through Consolidation Creates Success

BJC’s story of operating a single database is not unheard of, but their system is more advanced than what most healthcare organizations use, making them stand out as a leader in the industry.

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Three Perspectives on Public Safety Through the Lens of Trauma

Public safety is a particularly pointed issue for orthopedic trauma surgeons. Any solutions that can be tried in an effort to reduce the awful impact of bad decision-making should be considered.

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Competency is Essential Throughout Every Healthcare Organization

Competencies ensure the right people at the right level of your organization are equipped to achieve optimal performance outcomes. Successful competencies align with the organizational goals and individual performance evaluations, and are used to build a coaching culture.

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Training and Education are Key to OB Risk Reduction

Why is it important to focus on OB risk reduction education? By 2013 the Lancet estimated that our maternal mortality rate was as high as 18.5 per 100,000, thus dropping us to 60th in the world.

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How Doctors Feel About Talking to Patients about Finances

Interviewed physicians indicated they were willing to have conversations with patients and their families around healthcare cost and coverage, but felt inadequately prepared to do so due to the vast array of plans and provisions that exist today.

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Will The Sun Continue to Shine on Physician Payments?

As we wait to learn about the future of the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”), what’s not known at this time is the potential impact of proposed changes on the continued operation of the CMS “Open Payments” database.

April 01, 2021

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Disruption for Post-Acute Medical Care in 2017

Looking at healthcare in 2017 and beyond, it’s likely that the worlds of physicians and post-acute care are going to be seriously disrupted.

April 01, 2021

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The Need to Improve Patient Financial Communications

There’s a growing need for providers to have meaningful conversations with patients and their families about out-of-pocket costs for care and service. But many providers find themselves unprepared to have such discussions.

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A CNO Talks About the Future of Care and How Care Needs to Change

As a top leader at Mercy Health, Linda Knodel spends a good deal of her time preparing her organization for the healthcare industry of the future. She sees a need to better manage patient care, especially what is increasingly being delivered in the non-acute or home environment.

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HealthStream’s First Second Opinions Podcast Focuses on MACRA and MIPS

In our first installment of the Second Opinions Podcast, Dr. Miles Snowden, the Chief Medical Officer at TeamHealth, shares his personal insight on the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA), and what it means for physicians, hospitals, and consumers.

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What Employees REALLY Want to Improve Their Work: Podcast

HealthStream’s Second Opinions Podcast features Dick Finnegan, the CEO of C-Suite Analytics and the author of four books, including the best seller The Power of Stay Interviews. Dick suggests using stay interviews to identify the changes employees really want.

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Five Questions to Ask if You Really Want Employees to Stay: Best Practices

HealthStream’s Second Opinions Podcast features Dick Finnegan, the CEO of C-Suite Analytics and the author of four books, including the best seller The Power of Stay Interviews. Dick suggests using five stay interview questions to identify the changes employees really want.

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