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Dear ASHHRA Colleagues,
It’s that time of year when the hustle and bustle of all that holiday cheer starts to surround us. My hope is that each of you will have some time to celebrate the holidays with both your work and home families. Your ASHHRA Board and staff have worked hard this year to provide you value-added services such as the ASHHRA Learning Portal and Annual Conference. As we move wrap up 2018, I hope you can take some time to thank our staff and Board for all they have done.
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Help advance a colleague’s career and strengthen ASHHRA by sharing the value of membership and becoming an ASHHRA Ambassador. Complete the ASHHRA Membership Referral Form to invite colleagues who can benefit from ASHHRA membership. For each referral who joins, you’ll be entered into a drawing to win a complimentary registration to ASHHRA19 or a $250 American Express Gift Card! Plus, anyone who joins through your referral will be entered into the drawing! All referrals are due Friday, Nov. 16, 2018. ( See complete sweepstakes rules.)
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Thursday, Dec. 6, 2:00 p.m. CT
Explore current hiring and talent trends related to medical assistants and nurses on both regional and national levels. Presenters will share common mistakes and best practices to overcome talent shortages in an economical and efficient manner using real examples from different health care systems. Best of all: this webinar is FREE for ASHHRA members.
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Do you need workforce benchmarks such as turnover rate, health care costs per employee, HR headcount ratio, etc.? If the answered is yes, you need to participate in the ASHHRA HR Metrics Tool to gain access to critical data for your organization. The HR Metrics Tool is a joint collaboration between ASHHRA and PwC to benchmark critical workforce measures. And if you register to participate by Dec. 1, you will receive a 15 percent discount on top of the reduced ASHHRA member price!
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AHA News
Now that Election 2018 is in the books, what do the results mean for hospitals and health systems? Health care was front and center in the minds of voters this year. Polling before Election Day showed that 71 percent of voters said health care was “very important” in their decision. Top concerns were affordability and rising out-of-pocket costs, and maintaining coverage for pre-existing conditions.
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AHA News
Information technology is essential to our ability to innovate and adapt to the rapidly changing health care landscape. While we need to continue collecting health information, we must use our data tools wisely.
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AHA News
Washington nurse Stefan Torres is gaining recognition among the health care community for his short, homemade videos that explain everything from alcohol withdrawal to breast self-exams, the Herald Net reports. The video series, dubbed “It Takes A Nurse,” won the 2018 Nurses Week Video Challenge by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and typically debut on Facebook.
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Workforce
Artificial intelligence is increasingly people’s interviewer, colleague and competition. As it burrows its way further into the workplace and different job functions, it holds abilities to take over certain tasks, learn over time and even have conversations.
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Healthcare Dive
New business models are disrupting medical care, putting pressure on companies to rethink their strategies or risk being left behind, according to a new PwC Health Research Institute report.
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HR Dive
Two separate reports say rising health care costs in 2019 will outpace inflation, with both reports also highlighting employers' cost-containment efforts.
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Association for Talent Development
Would you like to attract and retain top talent while improving your patients’ experience? Bilingual staff medical-interpreter testing and training can do just that while reducing your costs for language services and speeding up access to quality services.
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Healthcare Informatics
Physicians at Upstate University Hospital in Syracuse, N.Y., are using a mobile app to collect data about hospitalists’ behaviors during patient interactions in order to provide real-time feedback.
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The Spinoff
Treating the types of conditions and injuries which present in this era requires doctors to become advocates as well as healers, writes Dr. Jin Russell.
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HR Dive
How do you develop a unified system that helps 4 million learners who hold a variety of specialties stay current, retain knowledge and put into practice new learnings? That was the challenge facing the American Nurses Association (ANA) Enterprise. A heavy dose of gamification can allow for personalization of learning on a massive scale.
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HR Morning
While each company has a different idea of what its employees should wear to work, employers usually have the power to enforce some kind of dress code. But with this ability come legal risks if the dress code isn’t applied equally to male and female employees.
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Healthcare Dive
Health care is on track to be the number one industry for global research and development spending, according to new analysis from PwC. The industry currently ranks second behind computing and electronics, but is expected to pull ahead by 2020.
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Patient Engagement HIT
Health care organizations are successfully deploying connected health. Now is the time for value-based care models to fully integrate these tools, too.
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