Trustee Articles
Making coaching available to an incoming board chair can build the chair's capacity to lead the board effectively.
Consumerism, personalized medicine, digital technology and artificial intelligence are fundamentally changing the way health care is purchased, delivered and organized.
With proper planning and investment, hospitals and health systems can reduce cyber risks and vulnerabilities.
The crisis brewing in the traditional governance model requires conscious construction of new models relevant to new times.
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.