Blog Category: Letters from the Foundation

Trust in an organization is fundamentally related to trust in its leaders.

This fairly simple and straightforward program is an invitation to clinical staff who use the EHR to identify documentation and other practice requirements that should be eliminated.

The key elements of the practice—compassion, multi-disciplinary teamwork, robust huddles, story-telling and person-centered care–—can be applied everywhere.

Over the next several weeks, I will devote this letter to writing about the winners of the ABIM Foundation’s recent Trust Practice Challenge.

In 2006, the ABIM Foundation and the Institute on Medicine as a Profession (IMAP), a non-profit health care think tank based at Columbia University, made a bold move to publicly confront the issue of physician conflict of interest (COI) and expose its threat to medical professionalism. A panel assembled by the Foundation and IMAP published… Read more »