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Dr. Joanne Conroy, President & CEO of Dartmouth-Hitchcock, shares with Modern Healthcare how organizations can begin breaking biases in healthcare. We know that companies with at least three women on the board of directors have median gains in return on equity higher than organizations with no women directors. 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