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Credentialing and Provider Enrollment in 2018: Three Key Industry Survey Findings

We present our research collected in early 2017 by VerityStream from 505 U.S. credentialing and provider enrollment professionals who indicate that creating efficiency and automation are higher priorities in their organization than in recent years.

April 01, 2021

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Healthcare Employee Development: You don’t have time to do it the old way!

Today’s healthcare employees face multiple demands—between ensuring competency and developing future leaders, they must accomplish much more in much less time.

April 01, 2021

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Coaching Physicians Based on Their Performance: Vital Conversations

In order to improve outcomes at your healthcare organization, it may be necessary to coach your physicians. Determine the achievement level of the physician you are coaching and create an appropriate plan of action.

April 01, 2021

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Four Ways to Improve Patient-Provider Communication

Poor communication can increase medical errors and hospital readmission rates for patients with chronic diseases such as congestive heart failure and diabetes as well as lead to misuse of medications.

April 01, 2021

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Begin to Enhance Physician Performance with Coaching

Every physician leader is charged with achieving certain outcomes. Goals to reach those outcomes may include improving compliance in quality and safety measures, identifying new ways to deliver medical services, or perhaps growing a new service line.

April 01, 2021

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21st Century Cures Act: Sunshine Provisions at Risk in Last Minute Maneuvering

When the 21st Century Cures Act was first presented, it contained provisions which would have weakened the Physician Payment Sunshine Act, which was passed as part of the Affordable Care Act in 2010.

April 01, 2021

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Beyond Managing: Leadership for Healthcare Teams

Healthcare is becoming more complex and specialized, with increased demand for complex health services and fast adoption of new methods. These trends have forced providers take a multidisciplinary approach to healthcare, including a greater need for effective, integrative teams.

April 01, 2021

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Use Social Media to Measure Consumer Feedback of Healthcare Providers

It is only fitting that medical patients have been increasingly searching online and social media reviews to make decisions on which providers, hospitals, or medical facilities they will use. Online reviews provide an unedited view into the patient experience from the source.

April 01, 2021

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Cultivate a Culture of Leaders in Healthcare: Webinar Recording

The leadership development pipeline is broken at many healthcare companies across the country, and a significant number of them are rethinking their approach to leadership succession.

April 01, 2021

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Use Data to Help You Achieve Your Succession Management Goals in Healthcare

Use healthcare-specific, predictive data to recognize and target the right people. Best practice leadership data is forward-looking and predictive for your needs.

April 01, 2021

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The Rewards and Challenges of Focusing on Care Quality Documentation

Convincing providers of the “business case” for quality can be difficult in our current environment. However, there are several initiatives currently underway at the medical group and provider levels which include a “pay for performance” component aimed at providing financial incentives to improve quality.

April 01, 2021

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Revenue Cycle Issues Make Provider Enrollment an Even Bigger Issue in Healthcare

Traditionally, hospitals, healthcare organizations, and medical groups have viewed provider enrollment in health plans as a back-office function, lacking strategic importance. More recently however, a number of changes in the industry have caused this function to be viewed in a much more important light.

April 01, 2021

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Hospital Safety is Improving: The Reduction in Healthcare-Acquired Conditions

Enormous efforts are being made to improve patient safety, and recent surveys show signs that hospital-acquired conditions (HACs) are decreasing nationwide.

April 01, 2021

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Is Your Organization Working with Outdated Succession Management Strategies?

While most healthcare companies are devoting resources to succession planning and leadership development, they are failing to yield benefits from their efforts. More than half of hospitals surveyed say they are unprepared to replace leadership roles.

April 01, 2021

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Are You Ready for the Transition to Value-Based Healthcare?

The next big change in the healthcare industry is the move to Value-Based Healthcare. Value-Based Healthcare (VBH) is the delivery of evidence-based treatments through which providers are compensated based on improved patient outcomes.

April 01, 2021

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It’s Time to Automate Provider-Payor Transactions

Some industry experts report that healthcare provider practices can save an average of $7.21 per payment by switching from manual to automated remittance and payment processing.

April 01, 2021

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Consumers Need to Be Educated About the Financial Side of Healthcare

What may have been a lone voice highlighting the need for consumer-centered financial information in the first decade of the new century has now been joined by a booming chorus in 2016.

April 01, 2021

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Future Of Skilled Nursing Facilities: Challenges & Opportunities

Read about the many things that will continue to be big challenges and opportunities for the furture of skilled nursing facilities, from HealthStream.

April 01, 2021

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Developing New Nurse Leaders is Critical for Healthcare: Infographic

Inforgraphic for New Nurse Leadership development

April 01, 2021

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Six Things You Need to Know About End of Life Care

Our healthcare model pushes to extend life, even if it comes at a high cost and sacrifices the quality of the patient’s remainder of life. These six observations focus on the latest developments surrounding care at the end of life.

April 01, 2021