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Forecasting Shifts in Strategic Priorities Amid COVID-19

With the future anything but clear, strategic thinkers, consultants and tech gurus have begun to reimagine the field’s future and what opportunities lie ahead.

HIPAA Privacy Rules Support Fund Development

Trustee Articles
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.

Health System-Physician Relationship Continuum

Trustee Articles
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

Trustee Articles
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.

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

Balanced Scorecard for Achieving Leadership Convergence and Accelerating Performance Improvement

Dashboards/Scorecards
While your organization may strive to improve safety, patient experience, workforce engagement and clinical quality as discrete performance domains, your leadership — and your resources — may be convened around multiple strategies and action plans. Without a single strategy that aligns improvement efforts and acts on the interdependencies of vertical domains, siloed planning can undermine workforce coordination and sustainable change.

Population Health: Considerations for Hospital and Health System Boards

Trustee Articles
An aging population, increasing rates of chronic disease and the onset of value-based payment structures are among the many drivers that have moved hospitals and health systems in recent years to take a more prominent role in disease prevention, health promotion, and other public health initiatives.

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

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.