Trustee Articles

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.
Health care providers must draw lessons from the core capabilities of successful companies in the internet economy.
Corporate boards, across industry sectors, are increasingly being called upon to support management as the company responds to how innovative competitors “disrupt” their existing business model. Blockbuster, Borders and ESPN are prime examples of established companies that have been pulled into the…