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Board Portals: Are They Improving Governance Effectiveness?
While most health care governing boards may still rely on paper packets and board agenda books for board and committee meetings, adoption of board portals— Web-based, online workspaces that support health care governance—appears to be catching up with use in other sectors.
Board Meeting Evaluation
Board self-assessment is widely recognized as a fundamental building block of continuous governance improvement. For the past 20 years, many healthcare organization governing boards have engaged in full board performance evaluations, often on an annual basis. These evaluations are designed to assess the board’s knowledge of its roles and responsibilities and how well the board as a whole is discharging them.
Better Board Meetings
What if the typical hospital board meeting — multiple hours spent on endless pages of financial data, slide after slide of bullet points and little time left for meaningful discussion — could be more engaging and less time-consuming? With some planning and practice, boards and senior executives can make this happen.
Asking Incisive Questions
Deeply held beliefs can blind boards to the true nature of change. It’s time to challenge the orthodoxies. In the early 2000s, the Nokia board debated creating a smartphone. The company’s wireless handset was the global best seller. Management believed consumers would not use a touch screen on a handset.
Asking the Edgy Questions About the Future
The AHA’s report on Hospitals and Care Systems of the Future is not intended to be one of those think tank documents that’s quickly forgotten when the next hot idea comes along. The report, which the AHA will update periodically to reflect changing conditions, is designed to help leaders engage in active, thoughtful exchanges about their desired delivery system of the future.
Policy on Consent Agendas
To expedite the conduct of routine business during board meetings in order to allocate more meeting time to education and discussion of substantive issues.
Creating Value as a Committee Chair
Boards need to regularly evaluate their existing committee structure and be ready to adjust based on the organization’s changing governance needs.
Educating the Health Care Board | Transformation Talks
Educating health care boards to meet tomorrow’s challenges, Episode 4 in the AHA Transformation Talk Series
Making Executive Sessions Work
A four-part executive session meeting model can lead to effective governance.