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How Hospitals Can Make the Best Use of Social Media

Recognizing the importance of social media is the first step in taking your hospital into the digital world.

HIPAA Privacy Rules Support Fund Development

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As a foundation board member or hospital trustee, you’ve likely received education about HIPAA, otherwise known as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. HIPAA legislation was enacted to provide data privacy and security provisions to safeguard the protected health information (PHI) of patients.

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

MHC Governance Learning Collaborative

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Are You Prepared to Meet Today’s Governance Challenges? Serving on a community hospital or health care system board in today’s challenging environment takes more than the desire to fulfill a fiduciary duty.

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.

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

Competency Based Governance Enters the Health Care Boardroom

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The role of a health care organization trustee is getting more complicated and more sophisticated every day. Pressures are increasing simultaneously for higher quality, lower cost, more transparency and accountability, and use of evolving and ever-more-expensive technology.

Best Governance Practices: Not Just for Goliaths

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Today’s hospital leaders know their trustees must be more adaptable, connected and knowledgeable about the changing health care landscape than any of their predecessors. But do they believe their volunteer community board is truly capable of stepping up to current field challenges?

One thing leads to another

By now, you, as a hospital board member, are familiar with three terms that are driving much of the transformation underway in our field: value-based care, population health management and the co