HealthStream, Inc., a leading provider of workforce, patient experience, and provider solutions for the healthcare industry, has entered into a strategic partnership with EBSCO Health to offer a unique Clinical Skills Development Program, delivering innovative clinical competency solutions that meet a wide range of clinical staff development needs. EBSCO Health provides evidence-based clinical information, healthcare business intelligence, and peer-reviewed medical research tools for the healthcare community.
Together, HealthStream and EBSCO Health will deliver its evidence-based skills and procedures content through HealthStream's mobile-ready platform and via EBSCO Health's native app, the Nursing Reference Center™ Plus, also known as Clinical Skills Center™ and Clinical Decision Support™. To minimize time to decision, Nursing Reference Center Plus is fully integrated with EMRs.
HealthStream and EBSCO Health's new Clinical Skills Development Program can be used for learning and professional development, as well as for reference purposes. This partnership fulfills the dual needs of point-of-care access and professional development which has become increasingly important for healthcare organisations. The more comprehensive approach of the Clinical Skills Development Program ensures that the development of clinical skills are aligned to key organisational initiatives and available to frontline staff when and where they need it.
As part of the new program, EBSCO’s clinical skills will also be built into HealthStream’s Checklist Management™ application to conveniently provide the means to validate and document skills acquisition in one central place, providing an automated audit trail for ease of organisational reporting. Introduced last year, hundreds of thousands of healthcare professionals currently subscribe and routinely use Checklist Management within their respective healthcare organisations. More than ever, supporting the accumulation of knowledge, development of skills, and ultimate validation of competency outcomes is essential to providing quality patient care, as well as meeting regulatory and accreditation standards. The Joint Commission requires initial and ongoing competency assessment and documentation on elements of performance.
EBSCO's Clinical Skills Center and Decision Support resources include more than 1,400 standardised skills and procedures across over 50 clinical specialties, and over 17,000 evidence-based entries that cover a wide range of clinical topics, as well as over 8,000 patient-teaching handouts that can facilitate caregiver-patient communication. The superior quality of EBSCO Health's evidence-based clinical content has been widely recognised in the healthcare industry, awarded by KLAS as having the 'highest overall performance,' according to their report, Clinical Decision Support 2013: Sizing up the Competition.
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