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Patient-focused Care Means Quality Comes First

High-quality, patient-centered care has always been imperative for health care providers and their boards.

Boards can be safety champions

Trustee talking points Patient safety is essential for hospitals and health systems, and it should be a strategic priority. Boards need to be informed about and engaged i

Health System-Physician Relationship Continuum

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This monograph will focus on the Board’s role in plugging into how these processes are carried out within their organizations and on how the Board role is evolving. Among other things, we will address the characteristics of relationships among health care organizations and physicians that, if nurtured and respected, will enable the challenges of tomorrow to be more easily surmounted.

Purchaser Pressure: The Emerging Role of Employers in Driving Value in Healthcare

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As medical costs consume an ever increasing share of businesses’ profits, self-funded employers and public purchasers of health insurance are becoming more aggressive than ever before in direct contracting with providers.

Surviving Disruption in Health Care

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Health care providers must draw lessons from the core capabilities of successful companies in the internet economy.

10 health care trends for 2017

Trustee talking points Health care is undergoing rapid transformation, and developments in 2017 should prove no exception. Hospital trustees need to stay on

Immersion Day for trustees

Could a board be more effective if it deeply understood the ins and outs of how a health system delivers care? For four years, the Immersion Day program at Mission Health in Asheville, N.

Blurring boundaries

In the 1990s, Jack Welch popularized a phrase to describe what he wanted GE to be: a “boundaryless organization.” That is, he wanted to break down traditional organizational silos and i

Care [Almost] Anywhere

Trustee Talking Points • Health systems are experimenting with new types of access that make care more convenient and less costly for consumers.