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Consumerism Hits Health Care

Snapshot Faced with growing financial responsibility for their health care, individuals are behaving more like consumers when making care decisions.

An overlooked source of risk: Culture

Directors and trustees serving health care organizations, whether investor-owned or nonprofit, bear responsibility for their organization’s corporate culture and, with that, enormous ris

Keeping Value Front and Center in Health Care

Hospital boards can think creatively about how to generate value for their patients and communities.

The Principles of Lean Can Lead to Better Population Health

Lean principles and processes have become important tools for transforming health care delivery, transparency and cost.

By the patient, for the patient

By the time Warren J. Smith III met Kavita Bhavan, M.D., he had had dozens of surgeries stemming from a motorcycle accident that shattered his leg.

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.

Milwaukee health systems partner for community health

A decade ago, leaders of four health systems serving Milwaukee residents recognized that they needed to do something different.

AHA Chair-elect Takes Aim at the Triple Aim

Jim Skogsbergh has been at the helm of Advocate Health Care since April 2002.

New board members: Orientation 101

Few things are more satisfying to new board members than the realization that they have not only made a smart decision to join a board but that they can immediately begin to make meaningful co

Health Care 2.0 and Beyond: The Digitally Aware Board

While the fee-for-service payment system remains profitable for many hospitals and systems, most agree that high-performing organizations in the future will be part of accountable, conn