American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation

This commentary describes 4 dimensions of trust that have been illuminated by contributions from leading health care organizations to the ABIM Foundation’s Trust Practices Network.

The promise of high-quality, affordable care aligning with the individual needs of patients remains elusive. Increasingly, the missing ingredient seems obvious: trust.

Relationships in healthcare are important and trust is crucial to those relationships. However, it has been on the decline in the United States. We speak with the executive vice president of the ABIM Foundation and representatives from the 8 winning organizations of the foundation's Trust Practice Challenge about the programs they implemented to rebuild trust.

ABIM Foundation is building upon its Choosing Wisely campaign with a new Trust Practice Challenge that will identify practices that build or rebuild trust in healthcare with the ultimate goal of creating a collection of replicable and scalable practices.

Healthcare savings foreseen with adoption of electronic health records have fallen short of expectations but adding clinical decision support tools could change that. A new study in The American Journal of Managed Care® shows how Cedars-Sinai Health System achieved better care and savings by following Choosing Wisely recommendations.