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Six Key Ways to Provide Better Care for Frail Older Adults

One in five hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries is readmitted within 30 days of discharge from an acute care setting at a cost of $2.6 billion annually; three quarters of these readmissions are potentially avoidable. Here are sic recommendations for improving healthcare for frail seniors.

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Resuscitation Best Practices for Staff with Arthritis or Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Here are six of our most common resuscitation practice and certification tips for staff members who are challenged by arthritis in their hands or wrists, or are afflicted with carpal tunnel syndrome.

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Two Moments That Matter For a Patient Receiving Care

For most patients, healthcare is not a daily or yearly event in their lives. When it comes to interactions with a physician, a patient has two very important moments that matter.

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HealthStream Customers Named as Winners of 2017 Awards of Excellence

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eBook: The Dollars are in the Details

Looming changes in the healthcare landscape will significantly impact every healthcare organization’s bottom line. HealthStream’s new eBook explores some of these issues and offers insight and best practices for navigating through the changes with success.

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Improve Outcomes by Breathing New Life into Resuscitation Training: eBook

Though the components of high-quality CPR seem simple enough--chest compressions and ventilation, high-quality CPR is actually difficult. The survival rates for sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) remain relatively low, ranging from just 2 to 11%. We can do better.

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The Joy of Working with Millennials in Healthcare

The millennials in our healthcare workforce have challenged the rest of us to reconsider how we have “always done things.” They want ongoing coaching and development and not a one-time per year annual evaluation and training.

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Accelerate the Improvement of Your Healthcare Workforce with Learning: eBook

Improving outcomes is top of mind for everyone in healthcare. One really good place to start this effort is to focus on your workforce. The eBook addresses building the skills and competency of existing staff to more quickly realize increases in care quality, experiences, and operations.

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Using Digital Rounding as a Best Practice for Improving Patient Safety

Successful patient safety initiatives improve patient lives and outcomes. Although it may be hard for hospitals to successfully implement changes in workflow to enhance patient safety, technology like digital rounding can make it easier to achieve.

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Preparing Your Practice for Value-Based Care: Five Best Practices

With your Medicare reimbursement at risk based on your participation in the Quality Payment Program this year, it’s critical that you start now. Don’t leave money on the table by failing to prepare

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Patient Safety is Improving: Some Positive Indications of Progress

The most recent National Healthcare QDR cites that measures of patient safety improved, with a 17 percent reduction in HACs.

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Core Competencies Could Strengthen Clinical Research Workforce

Having a set of core competencies will be “incredibly helpful” in addressing the current clinical research associate (CRA) shortage. This will benefit those transitioning into clinical research, as well as those making lateral or vertical moves in the clinical trial workplace.

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Four Ways That Nurses Work to Demonstrate a Patient is Cared For and Safe

Keeping a patient safe heavily relies on open communication. In order to assure family members of patients that their family member is safe and well cared for, communication is a necessity.

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Adapting to the New Realities of Clinical Trials

A sometimes-daunting array of processes and technologies is putting a new kind of pressure on clinical research professionals that demands innovative training and a core reassessment of how to demonstrate skillsets.

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Communicating with Patients about High Deductible Insurance: Best Practices

But as consumers face higher out-of-pocket costs for care, they become more likely to postpone treatment or service. Two out of five adults with high deductibles have delayed or avoided care based on the amount of out-of-pocket costs, according to a survey by The Commonwealth Fund.

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Five Reasons Global Patient Safety is Important

Patient safety is foundational in delivering healthcare. If the patient does not feel safe, not much else can be accomplished. Here are five facts about patient safety that highlight its importance.

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State of the Industry: Established Competencies Will Drive Better Practices in Clinical Research

The demands on clinical research professionals to deliver high-quality study data more quickly and efficiently have arguably never been greater, but the industry continues to shy away from adapting technologies and new best practices that could help lighten the load.

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The Benefits of Interactive Learning for Healthcare: Achievement and Understanding

Interactive learning has proven to improve overall student achievement of learning goals. Transforming classroom experiences from lecture to interaction learning also deepens the understanding of complex concepts.

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Ten Webinars about Solving Problems in Healthcare Compliance

Like many other areas of healthcare, compliance is plagued by challenges and responsibilities that can seriously affect the financial viability of an organization. Here are links to 10 webinar recordings focused on aspects of healthcare compliance.

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What’s Next in the Evolution of Interactive Learning in Healthcare?

The healthcare industry is changing how it educates and develops employees to meet varying learning demands and likely workforce shortages. Here we discuss developments in the near future of interactive learning in healthcare.

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