Mark your calendars! HealthStream Research's 2008 Summit will be at the Opryland Resort and Convention Center in Nashville, Tennessee, September 2-5, 2008.

HealthStream's Summit 2008 is about supercharging your success in creating excellence in healthcare. This means giving you the best tools, ideas, strategies, resources, contacts, access to experts, product roadmaps, and training. You will get all of that at Summit 2008.

Pre-Conference Workshop - HealthStream Research's pre-conference workshop will give you quality time with HealthStream's expert consultants and ensure you are getting the most value out of your research. This year's pre-conference workshop will take you on a fascinating journey that provides a 360 degree "insight into action" examination.

Three Keynote Speakers - Three high-quality speakers that will challenge us all to create excellence in healthcare and have us writing targeted lists of ideas and action plans of how we can do our part when we get back home.

21 Concurrent Sessions - These 21 sessions will focus on timely issues and areas of interest to your organization. Presenters will provide detailed roadmaps on how they've implemented programs in their hospitals that significantly impacted their business. This is your opportunity to hear first-hand about the best practices others have discovered and implemented in their organizations.

General Sessions - Detailed roadmaps for where HealthStream is going in terms of products, features, integrations, and solutions for building out your virtual community, providing you additional resources, and most importantly, empowering you to be heroes in your organizations and creat excellence in healthcare.

Post-Conference "HCAHPS Boot Camp" Workshop - In this new age of public reporting, it can almost seem like you are not only up against hospitals in your service area, but up against the rest of the nation as well. Do you have the knowledge and insights to obtain the best HCAHPS socres? Are you ready for Value-Based Purchasing? Do you want to hear how others have successfully tackled the HCAHPS challenges your hospital faces? The post-conference HCAHPS Boot Camp will help hospitals be bigger, faster, and stronger than the toughest HCAHPS obstacles.

Networking Opportunities - You'll be surrounded by best practices and innovators of change throughout the entire conference.

Talk to the Award Winners - This is your chance to meet (and learn from) the recipients of HealthStream Research's Annual Awards - ask questions, hear their stories of success, and get information that will put you on the winner's list for next year!

Interactive Expo - See, use, and discuss with partners, customers, HealthStream consultants, clinical executives, and experts the most beneficial and latest solutions that healthcare organizations are already using to solve problems.

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Written By:
Mollie Elizabeth Condra, Ph.D.
Senior Director, Communications, Research, & Investor Relations


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Question:
"Could you explain what a Leverage Analysis is?"

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To assist the hospital in identifying its areas of strength, as well as its opportunities for improvement, HealthStream Research provides a leverage analysis. Targeting the opportunities identified by the leverage analysis, along with successful strategies for improvement, will result in the most significant increase in performance. The leverage analysis is a visual outline of the importance and performance of the survey items. By presenting 1) how the hospital is performing compared to the HealthStream Research Database for each survey item and 2) how important these items are to satisfaction at the hospital, the leverage analysis gives management a powerful tool that will help them in prioritizing organization-wide initiatives and presenting survey results.

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