Trustee Articles
Health care is ripe for change. The evidence is all around us. A majority of health care leaders recently surveyed said hospitals and health systems are most in need of disruptive innovation (New England Journal of Medicine Catalyst, February 16, 2017). Consumers are taking charge of their own…
A diagnostic tool and organization assessment can help boards address barriers to effective quality oversight.
Utah-based Intermountain Healthcare continues to transform itself to best adapt to the demands of the changing health care environment. As part of the current transformation, the health system has organized its leadership to optimize the interdependencies of safety, quality, patient experience and…
Boards can foster patient-centered care by encouraging meaningful conversations during patient encounters and by incentivizing clinicians.
Boards need to assess troubled areas in their organizations, set goals for improving the culture, and hold leaders accountable for change.
Sustainable change requires a strategy to align improvement efforts and act on the interdependencies of four performance domains.
A growing movement of health care providers is systematically spreading best practices in the care of older adults.
For the past few years, “prices” in health care have generated some eye-popping headlines in the press — most notably drug prices. It is not news to anyone in health care that the prices providers pay for drugs and for health care technology seem to rise every year. Further, providers face the…
Boards need to understand artificial intelligence to evaluate its evolving benefits and risks.
Affordability is one of the most important challenges influencing Americans’ ability to access health care. However, no single, agreed-upon definition of health care affordability exists because it is influenced by many complex factors.