The IRS will continue to monitor governance and tax-exempt organizations, and now has the data to support its work, according to a recent Practice Group update from the American Health…
iProtean—Mission & Strategy
iProtean—Mission & Strategy As strategists, the vital skills for the board are: ask, listen, assess. (Punit Renjen, Board Chair, Deliotte LLP, “Exceptional Boards,” Leadership Excellence, March 2012) Boards…
iProtean—Strategic Planning
Hospital executives are in high gear preparing their organizations for the implementation of the structural components of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)—accountable care organizations, bundled payments, medical homes and more.…
iProtean—Hospital-Physician Alignment
In mid-2011 Deloitte Center for Health Solutions surveyed a nationally representative random sample of U.S. primary care and specialist physicians to record their attitudes toward health reform and how it…
iProtean—Bylaws, Policies and Conflict of Interest
Hospitals have done relatively well in managing board-level conflicts of interest in the last several years, both as a matter of internal necessity and because of increasing demands from the…
iProtean—The Medical Staff
The medical staff, though it has evolved over the last several years, faces additional pressures to accommodate the changing healthcare delivery environment. The American Health Lawyers Association recently sponsored…