

Overview
What is HealthStream Learning & Performance?
HealthStream is a cloud-based Talent Management Suite specifically designed for the healthcare sector. Focused on training (LMS), the suite also includes performance management, competency, simulation and credentialing. HealthStream also provides research services to healthcare organizations.
HealthStream will help you meet your training needs
HealthStream Review - Dedicated Education Platform
HealthStream: Winner!
HealthStream Review
Never knew how great it was until I tried another corporate learning program
HealthStream Review
Best in Class - HealthStream Fits Clinic-based Business Model
HealthStream is a great product that helps manage end user education
HealthStream Makes Training Easy
HealthStream Review
Great Company, Great Product
HealthStream is a vital resource to quickly learn hospital protocols
Health Stream great Asset
HealthStream-Customized for Your Organization's Training Needs
Popular Features
- Review status tracking (8)8.080%
- Reporting (8)7.777%
- Performance tracking (8)6.868%
- Corporate goal setting (6)5.858%
Pricing
What is HealthStream Learning & Performance?
HealthStream is a cloud-based Talent Management Suite specifically designed for the healthcare sector. Focused on training (LMS), the suite also includes performance management, competency, simulation and credentialing. HealthStream also provides research services to healthcare organizations.
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- No setup fee
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting / Integration Services
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Features
Performance and Goals
Goal alignment is the practice of ensuring that all employees have clearly defined goals in support of the overall corporate strategy.
- 5.8Corporate goal setting(6) Ratings
Corporate goal setting is the ability to define corporate goals, and/or vision statements in the system.
- 5Subordinate goal setting(5) Ratings
Subordinate goal setting is the ability to define subordinate departmental or team goals in support of overall corporate goals.
- 5.8Individual goal setting(6) Ratings
Individual goal setting is the ability to define individual goals that align to organizational and subordinate goals.
- 6.8Line-of sight-visibility(6) Ratings
Line-of-sight visibility is the provision of line-of sight visibility for each goal to see how goals support overall corporate objectives.
- 6.8Performance tracking(8) Ratings
Performance tracking allows managers to track individual progress against goals as a component of overall performance.
Performance Management
Performance management is the process of ensuring employees meet pre-determined objectives and goals through regular check-ins and appraisals.
- 6.2Performance plans(4) Ratings
Supervisors have ability to build individual performance plans including, goals, competencies, etc..
- 5Plan weighting(3) Ratings
Supervisors have ability to weight or prioritize individual elements of the performance plan.
- 5Manager note taking(1) Ratings
Ability for managers to insert ad-hoc notes about performance or evaluation process; supports continuous feedback.
- 7Performance improvement plans(5) Ratings
Supervisors can track disciplinary actions such as performance improvement plans.
- 8Review status tracking(8) Ratings
Supervisors can monitor and track review status completion with dashboard showing milestones and status.
- 7Rater nomination workflow(3) Ratings
Ability for nominated raters to accept or reject their nomination.
- 9Review reminders(4) Ratings
System can generate reminders to ensure review completion timeliness.
- 5Workflow restrictions(2) Ratings
Workflow restrictions ensure that employee can only see finalized official review once completed.
- 8Multiple review frequency(3) Ratings
System supports multiple review types including annual, quarterly mid-year and anniversary reviews.
- 7.7Reporting(8) Ratings
Reporting capabilities provide dashboards, ad-hoc reports and custom reporting capabilities.
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Reviews
(1-21 of 21)Healthstream is ok for Healthcare Learning
- Track training.
- Reporting.
- Course building.
- More intuitive.
HealthStream will help you meet your training needs
- Tracking compliance
- Verifying content is up to date and accurate
- Authoring your own content required a lot of training
- Would like the ability to assign competencies that more then one person could sign in to
HealthStream Review - Dedicated Education Platform
- Allows us to schedule courses to reoccur yearly.
- Allows us to print a fully completed transcript of course completions.
- It is difficult to see what assessments were failed without additional transcript report changes.
- It is not able to accommodate CE credits for International Nurses applying for US licensure.
HealthStream: Winner!
- Notifies you when there is new training.
- The modules are very easy to use.
- The configuration of the system is well built.
- The system notifies quite frequently when training is due.
- It would be great to have a mobile feature to do training on the go.
HealthStream Review
- Allows you to be able to keep track of all your assignments from your manager.
- Often gives you the ability to test out of having to do the training with a pretest
- Keeps all your completed work for you to review or look back on should you need a refresher.
- On more than one occasion healthstream notified me that I had a task to be done, but it was nowhere to be found in my assignments.
- Extremely broad customization. Each task or assignment can be distributed to everyone, a department, a role, etc.
- Easy interface: it doesn't require a bunch of pop-ups, everything just flows.
- Minimal requirements: most courses just need a browser, no plug-ins or additional features.
- Hard to ensure learning retention since employees can simply click through the modules if they choose.
- It doesn't remind the employees via email that assignments are due, you have to log in to the site to see that.
HealthStream Review
- Integrated employee management website
- Easy to use
- User-friendly
- Interface is not intuitive
- Not compatible with a few browsers
- Issues logging in - server
- Reporting. Having the ability to track compliance (and non-compliance) at our fingertips ensures that we are up-to-date with Federal, State, Local and internal policies, requirements and educational initiatives
- Customization. Developing in-house materials, specific to our variable training needs is a huge plus - HealthStream's commitment to SCORM-ready content since 2011 has made it simple for us to connect, engage and interact with all of our staff and providers.
- Integration. Allowing us to interface with our HRM/HRIS systems is invaluable. Keeping up with a dynamic workforce, both in terms of retention and attrition, would not be possible without our current interface structures.
- Additional SCORM capability. It would be nice for HealthStream to record and maintain responses from SCORM-based input, including user responses. Having only the ability to review multiple-choice test iterations and average responses is good, but the ability to review individual responses would be amazing - and a great tool to identify specific gaps in educational content/student understanding.
- Additional test question types. It would be great to see interactive question objects available through the standard HLC test question interface. The ability to create hotspot interactions and/or visual queues would be ideal - and possibly enhance the value of the Test Results report.
- Easier non-HealthStream data recording. For us, having the ability to customize the student profile would be a great plus. In a changed model, we could add fields for inservices, CE/CEU classes taken outside of HealthStream and have the ability to record other training-related data to a single screen.
- Performance Reviews. This, to me, is a natural addition to the HealthStream process. Having performance tied to training/development would be another great plus. Obviously, if this was another "module" with greater expense, the benefit would be less.
- Allows us to upload data that the employees can reference back to as needed
- Allows us to ensure competency but testing the end users proficiency in the subject
- Allows us to meet the Joint Commission Requirements
- Needs Better Communication of updated for Administrators
- Some items are sunset such as contribute but for items that were built using their old methodology need to still be supported
- Support for those sunset items needs to be better
HealthStream Makes Training Easy
- Designing elearning tutorials and assessments is very intuitive in HealthStream. This benefits the designer, but also the end user or employee who will ultimately take the test since the layout is also very user friendly.
- Tracking statistics for employees; it is very easy to pull reports in HealthStream that detail scores for students on assessments, length of time it took to complete training, questions that were often answered incorrectly, etc.
- Searching different user and employee groups for tracking is very intuitive, which saves quite a deal of time in the long run when needing to access these employee populations.
- Embedding elearning tutorials into HealthStream can be a bit complicated, and even slow down the site for the end user. In my experience, I found it much easier to just offer a link to the tutorial through the assessment portion.
- Keeping users synced into the most up-to-date user groups can be a bit tricky. If you create your own student groups, and then these students transfer to a different job role or department, you will manually have to make these changes yourself. A more automated process would be great.
HealthStream Review
- It works well to assign out courses for regulatory purposes.
- We also purchases the competency center, which costs extra, to track on-line demonstration of a course. Staff like this and we don't have paper being shuffled between departments any longer.
- For the most part staff can use HealthStream easily w/o much instruction.
- From an administrative point of a view they use an "and" relationship in their database and they need to move to and and/or relationship. So a nurse can work in the ED and hold a second job in the medical/peds. Right now HealthStream doesn't find that nurse and it takes a lot of work to find that 2nd job code on the administrative side. HealthStream should be able to pick that up.
- It is lacking a 2nd supervisor field to pick up the 2nd job codes that are created which links up to issue number one. Once you find the 2nd job code you can't link it to 2nd supervisor.
- The HLC/competency center needs alot more programming work. It's a newer program for HealthStream and missing alot needed requests. It needs checklist functionality or some special editable fields and an ability to change rater on the assignments to help the educators.
Great Company, Great Product
- Training needs can be addressed immediately.
- Complainance rates have increased
- Training cost have been decreased
- The ability to upload videos can be a bit time consuming
- Baby CPR Mannequins tend to break and are a bit difficult for most staff to use.
HealthStream is a vital resource to quickly learn hospital protocols
- Providing detailed scenarios of realistic situations you may be in.
- Providing up-to-date changes in healthcare safety.
- Listing your legal obligations and bounds as well as what is appropriate behavior for certain healthcare departments.
- Hard to get started.
- Too many steps to verify course completion.
- User's homepage is unclear and confusing.
Health Stream great Asset
- LMS functions are excellent
- Content partners are excellent
- Self authoring aspects are good
- Class maintenance
- Reporting
- Add video content to authored courses
HealthStream-Customized for Your Organization's Training Needs
- It was user friendly. Easy to show others how to use.
- It was functional. We experienced very few errors with implementing/uploading training modules.
- It was cost effective. As we surveyed other LMS systems, few could provide the level of capability for the same cost.
- I recall the timeout on the modules were a problem. If your computer cut off or you accidentally logged out in the middle of a module, you would have to start a module over.
- I also recall our database administrator having trouble with uploading videos here and there (very rare).
- Access from home was also a problem (keep in mind this was a few years ago). Many of our employees could not access using their home computer.
HealthStream - the ideal LMS for for a hospital system
- Meeting healthcare regulatory education needs - comes with a regulatory library focused on those needs (The Joint Commission and OSHA)
- Elective Course Options - dozens of course libaries available for purchase to meeting contining education needs of nurses and clinical employees
- Class Registraion - Does a really nice job of handling thousands of class registrations for massive education roll outs
- Course Building - with additional resources you can purchase rights to author your own courses.
- Class Building - very tediouos to build hundreds of classes, users do not get notified when added to a class
- Reporting - this something they are working on. Reports are very tedious to run with all the parameters.
- Administrators - not intuitive to be in the system. Although over time it does all make more sense.
Key Questions:
What training do you provide for administrators?
What support do you provide for administrators?
What support do you provide for students?
How often is the website down?
What operating systems are you compatible with?
How often do you update your courses?
HealthStream a Solid Choice for LMS
We purchased courses from HealthStream - but mostly we created our own courses using Adobe Captivate. We created courses for clinical training, soft skills, diversity and Human Resource training as well as business and financial training.
- Reporting and tracking of course and training completion
- Email reminders to employees for upcoming training events
- Can set up a full course package - pre-test, course, post-test and attachments
- Sometimes clunky in naming formats
- Need the option to upload more file formats - especially videos and HTML references
Multiple locations and employees working a variety of shifts, you need Healthstream.
- easy to load your own modules
- easy reporting
- end user freindly
- Would have liked to have been able to use healthstream for credentialing too, would love to see them add that to their suite of services
Quality Control Specialist
- I love how that it keeps track of all classes and training for years or even when an employee has left.
- I love how when an employee decides to return to our organization that Healthstream is able to retrieve the information for us without any problems.
- It has really worked well when JCHAO has come to audit our facilities and then we can get to the information with such ease. Even if we cant find the information ourselves a quick phonecall and Healthstream will get us what we need.
- The training for me since I am an administrator could have been more indepth.
- I would have loved one on one training instead of classroom.
- I have had problems when employees are telling me that they are completing courses and it is not showing completed on there profile. I would like to see that problem fixed.
I woudl choose HealthStream every time.
- HealthStream is incredibly user friendly. Even if you're not an avid computer user, it's easy to navigate.
- I don't have any suggestions.
Healthstream, feels like you are swimming upstream.....
The major problem that it addresses is not having to do classroom training for a variety of different subjects.
- All employees are educated when they begin employment on how to sign into Healthstream and that it is the source of training for the organization. So everyone knows where to go to complete their required training for their position to remain compliant. Puts responsibility in the employees' hands.
- Immediate knowledge of whether you passed/failed.
- If used correctly provides excellent transcript for an employee, concise and accurate.
- Very difficult to run any type of report using Healthstream. It would be more beneficial if you could run a report indicating who finished set assignments
- Very difficult to search for classes. If you do not put in exact titles for particular assignment you will not find it.
- Cannot print out any listing of upcoming classes on a certain topic or email a list if requested, the product really falls short
- If an employee is not in Healthstream and you must complete their testing and you must use a "place holder" the product is not very good. If the tester does not go back into the Healthstream record once the individual is registered and enter a learning event then you do not have an accurate transcript.
- Not really user friendly for all managers, if an older manager is not computer literate. then training can be painful and you will find the product is not used.
Will you have someone that is able to understand the product well enough that they can produce reports if requested?
Will you have enough personnel on the Healthstream team to make sure that tests are entered correctly with correct answers?
Will you have one or more Healthstream administrator, you should have more than one employee holding the keys to the kingdom so to speak.