Introducing the Building Trust Initiative
Poll shows gaps in public’s trust in health care systems and clinicians—and how COVID affected how physicians gauge trust
The ABIM Foundation officially kicked off Building Trust, a dynamic initiative to improve health care by fueling conversation, research and promising practices that help increase trust between patients, physicians and other stakeholders on May 21, 2021.
New polling data from NORC at the University of Chicago provide a look at the current state of trust in health care in the United States. Declining trust affects nearly every facet of society, and health care is no exception. To improve relationships between heath care stakeholders and bolster clinical outcomes, leaders from all parts of the health care system are coming together to consider how to elevate trust and improve care.
Speakers included:
- Richard J. Baron, MD – President and CEO of the American Board of Internal Medicine and ABIM Foundation
- Daniel Wolfson – Executive Vice President and COO of the ABIM Foundation
- Caroline Pearson – Senior Vice President at NORC at the University of Chicago
- Christa Fields – Manager, Health Care Strategy at NORC at the University of Chicago
Panel discussion:
- Jackie Judd –respected health care journalist and former Vice President and Executive Producer of Multimedia at the Kaiser Family Foundation (moderator)
- Donna Cryer, JD – Founder, President and CEO of the Global Liver Institute
- Neel Shah, MD – Founding Director of the Delivery Decisions Initiative at Harvard University’s Ariadne Labs
- Fred Cerise, MD – President and CEO of Parkland Health & Hospital System
Previous Webinars:
- Building trust with the LGBTQ+ community
- Conversation Series: Achieving quality and safety in health care starts with trust
- Building Institutional Trust
- Conversation Series: The intersection between firearms and health care
- Learning Network Webinar Series: How to build trust at your organization
- Conversation Series: Building trusting relationships by using the right language
- Learning Network Webinar Series: Providing support following a patient harm event
- Conversation Series: Trauma and healing in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Learning Network Webinar Series: Developing strategies to make care more affordable
- Conversation Series: Distributed, decentralized and digitally-enabled care
- Public Agenda is building trust with patients
- Conversation Series: COVID-19’s impact on trust