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Factors Affecting Health Care Affordability

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Performance-based Contracting: Emerging Issues and Considerations

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A new business model is emerging to transform the care delivery and payment systems. The transition is underway in many communities — moving health care delivery from emphasizing sick care to addressing population health management.

Data can engage physicians in value

Physician engagement in value-based care is an increasingly critical issue for health care boards.

Telehealth Board Discussion Questions

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Hospital and health system boards and leadership can advance their understanding of telehealth and how it fits into organizational priorities by considering the following questions.

Governing in the Digital Age

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Most boards I know were built by recruiting business leaders, physicians and clergy, and it’s important to have broad community representation among trustees. Increasingly, however, boards are recruiting new members by using a skills-based approach aligned with the organization’s strategic needs, including the need for information technology expertise. This is where “digital directors” come in.

OhioHealth boosts hospice care

Hospice care has been shown to improve patients’ quality of life while reducing costs near death, but hospice services are chronically underused.

Strengthening Culture through Good Governance Practices

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For effective cultural stewardship, boards need to promote behavioral expectations for patient care and make sure that espoused values and norms are respected throughout the organization.

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

Governing to Achieve the Triple Aim: Broadening the Board's Perspective

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The Triple Aim of improving the experience of care, improving the health of populationsand reducing per capita costs of health care is a nationally recognized goal that provides context for much of the work now underway to redesign existing systems for care, payment and collaboration to achieve better health outcomes for all Americans.