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Announcements & Reminders
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| ANNOUNCEMENTS & REMINDERS |
With excitement, we share the launch of our new, refreshed Governance Resource Community Page—a centralized location designed to simplify access to key guidelines, frameworks, and best practices related to governance!
Each resource is available in a downloadable format to allow you ease in customizing the resources to meet your needs in alignment with your governance processes.
Click here to access these resources within the Community, or click here to view other pathways. |
| As you plan for the year ahead, staying informed about workforce trends is critical to building resilient, future-ready teams. Our latest blogs, Healthcare IT Workforce Trends to Watch in 2026 and Nursing Workforce Trends to Watch in 2026, highlight the key forces shaping healthcare workforces, from AI’s impact on IT and nursing workflows to cybersecurity demands, staffing shortages, burnout, and data-driven workforce planning. Each resource includes practical insights and executive perspectives to support smarter strategic decisions. Explore the full blogs and access additional resources for CIOs and CNOs on our 2026 workforce trends resource pages. |
Soon, you’ll see a refreshed, modern look—while keeping the same easy experience for submitting and tracking your support cases.
What’s new?
The Support Portal will move to hStream ID for login, so you’ll no longer need separate credentials to access support. One login, fewer passwords to remember.
We’ll be sharing timeline details soon. Beta testing is underway — stay tuned! |
Congratulations to you and your colleagues as we celebrate another year working together to improve the quality of healthcare by developing the people who deliver care. Before we get too far into planning what we'll accomplish together in 2026, we thought you may like a recap of key releases over the last year+ to our My Team dashboard and the HLC: HealthStream Learning Center, as well as expansions to your hStream benefits.
My Team: Navigate by Timeline | Navigate by Topic
HLC: Navigate by Timeline | Navigate by Topic |
| Regularly scheduled maintenance is Friday, April 3, from 8pm — 4am Central Time. Click here to view the 2026 system maintenance schedule. |
If you contract for Insights+, this month we will be releasing the following new features in Learning Analytics:
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Summary Page: A new Summary page brings your most important data points together in a single, easy-to-read view.
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Advanced Filtering: You’ll now have greater flexibility when refining your dashboard with the new Advanced Filtering option for text-based fields. This enhancement lets you apply operators such as Equal To, Contains, Like, and Starts With, among others, to your filters.
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HealthStream is enhancing HealthStream Video Basic, Video Plus, and Video Complete video players with an updated version. Benefits of these updates include:
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Faster load and start times: Videos will begin playing more quickly and with greater stability, ensuring a smoother learning experience with fewer delays.
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Better playback across browsers and devices: The updated player is fully optimized for HTML5 and modern environments, offering more consistent performance whether learners are on a desktop, tablet, or mobile device.
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Modern, customizable design: The refreshed interface includes a cleaner layout and flexible UI options to deliver a more intuitive, learner‑friendly experience.
Please note that there is no action involved on your part for these changes to take effect. |
| HLC: HEALTHSTREAM LEARNING CENTER |
| Smart Note functionality has been expanded to allow for the creation of Smart Notes at the curriculum level as well as the course level. Curriculum-level Smart Notes can be used in conjunction with course Smart Notes, where a curriculum has one Smart Note and courses within it have others. This update also includes a modification to the Manage Smart Notes and Add/Edit Smart Notes pages to allow for easy switching between curriculum and course Smart Note views. |
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Following the release of our End Date initiative to assist with assignment maintenance (see above), we’re introducing a “Conversion Date” field to assist with Profile Student Group management and maintenance. If populated, the Profile Student Group will automatically be converted to an Individual Student Group on the Conversion Date. To help your organization begin using the Conversion Date field, you’ll see several changes on April 9, 2026:
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New “Conversion Date” Field: Conversion Date will be a new field for all Profile Student Groups, including Enterprise Profile Student Groups and Certification-Based Profile Student Groups. NOTE: Conversion dates cannot be more than 5 years in the future.
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All Profile Student Groups Associated with CBAs Auto-Updated: To set a foundation for future maintenance initiatives, HealthStream will automatically add a Conversion Date to all Profile Student Groups associated with Certification-Based Assignments (CBAs). The Conversion Date HealthStream populates will be the same date as the CBA’s End Date.
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If multiple CBAs are associated to the Group, the Conversion Date will auto-update to match whichever CBA’s End Date is furthest in the future.
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If a Profile Student Group is associated with a CBA and a(n) Interval or Learning Plan, a Conversion Date will not be added during the March release. Post-release, the Conversion Date will be auto-removed if a Group is associated with a CBA and a Plan. If all Plans are removed, the Conversion Date will be populated to 5 years in the future.
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Updated “Student Group” Report: Will include additional student group mapping details, like custom fields, job functions, and Enterprise Student Group data.
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New “Conversion Date Range” Filter: New search filter available via Manage Student Groups.
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New “Convert to Individual Student Group” Instant Option: Only Enterprise and hStream Administrators will see this new option when editing any Profile Student Group.
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New Auto-Alerts for Admins: These new automatic system alerts will come from noreply@healthstream.com:
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1-Month Prior to Conversion Date: This summary alert will include a listing of all Profile Student Groups scheduled to convert in the next month. As applicable, recipients will be 1) the administrator who created the Group and 2) the last administrator to update the Group.
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Post-Conversion: An individual alert will be sent for each Profile Student Group that is converted. It will include the student group mapping (selected Depts, Job Titles, etc.) and included students (User ID & Student Name) at the time of conversion. As applicable, recipients will be 1) the administrator who created the Group, 2) the last administrator to update the Group, and 3) the Enterprise or hStream Administrator who used the “Convert to Individual Student Group” instant option.
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We are pleased to announce a series of updates to the Assignment Pages designed to improve clarity, consistency, and usability for administrators. These enhancements apply to the Student Profile Assignment Page, Group Assignment Page, and Individual Assignment Page. Here's what's changing:
1. Clearer and More Accurate Item Names on Student Profile Assignment Page
To help administrators more easily identify assigned content—especially when courses are revised or renamed—the Item Name will now reflect the active version name of the content.
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Before enrollment: the Item Name displays the current active version of the course.
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After enrollment: once a student starts a course, the Item Name is permanently set to the version name the student enrolled in and completed.
Why this matters: This ensures assignment records accurately reflect what the learner actually experienced, even as content evolves over time.
Special note on recurring assignments: Recurring assignments will always display the active version name, since each completed instance immediately advances to the next assignment cycle.
2. Improved Student Profile Assignment Page Layout
Managing assignments for learners with extensive histories is now easier.
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Assignments will be displayed across multiple pages instead of a single long list.
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Page navigation controls will appear at the top of the screen.
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A new search bar allows administrators to search across all assignments, including those on other pages.
Tip: With the new search functionality, using browser-based searches (Ctrl + F) is no longer recommended, as it only searches the currently visible page.
The assignment listing order remains unchanged.
3. Updates to Group and Individual Assignment Management Pages
When viewing the Manage Group Assignment or Individual Assignment pages:
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The Learning Items field will now always display the active version name of the content.
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This applies consistently across both Group and Individual Assignments.
This change ensures that administrators quickly recognize the most up-to-date version of assigned learning items.
4. Expected Differences You May Notice
When viewing the Manage Group Assignment or Individual Assignment pages:
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The Learning Items field will now always display the active version name of the content.
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This applies consistently across both Group and Individual Assignments.
This change ensures that administrators quickly recognize the most up-to-date version of assigned learning items.
Recommended Best Practice
To help maintain clarity over time, we recommend the following when creating new course versions:
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Use the Comments section to document:
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Why the new version was created
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The updated course name
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The version number
This practice provides a clear historical record and minimizes confusion when reviewing assignments months or years later. |
| Now that all Enterprise and hStream Administrators have access to Insights (Training│Help), we’re gearing up for several design updates based on your feedback. You can expect a more intuitive workflow with your report parameters and results visible on the same page. For administrators working within a hierarchy, you’ll have a new option to easily run reports at different institutions (preview here). Watch a video walkthrough of the redesign here. |
Starting in May, you will be able to create Custom Reports that include Course Metadata. This dataset includes fields like:
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Course Name
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Course Version
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Course Description
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Course Identifier
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Course Owner
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Publishing Status
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Course Created By
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Learning Activities of the Course, etc.
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