Probing the Costs of Medical Education: Are We Getting Our Money's Worth?

While the nation has been preoccupied with delivering better, cheaper health care, medical training programs producing tomorrow's health leaders, have largely escaped public scrutiny. ... Read More

AAMC 2014: Transparency in Health Care: What it All Means

University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics CEO David Entwistle discusses what transparency means when it comes to health care, and what people can expect when they attend Monday's 3:30pm session on the topic. ... Read More

AAMC 2014: Going Out With a Bang: Keeping Faculty Productive at the End of Their Careers

Harriet Hopf, M.D., associate dean for academic affairs at the University of Utah School of Medicine discusses how to keep tenured faculty performing at high levels throughout their careers, even in the final years. She also talks about how to help faculty decide when it's time to take on an emeritus role.... Read More

AAMC 2014: Keep the Fire Burning: Motivating Faculty at Mid-Career

As people evolve in their careers how do you keep them motivated to do the work they were hired to do? Harriet Hopf, M.D., associate dean for academic affairs at the University of Utah School of Medicine discusses how to keep faculty involved and passionate about their fields.... Read More

AAMC 2014: Transparency Leads to Accountability

When you make data public, you make a commitment to hold your organization to a higher standard. That is the message of David Entwistle, CEO of University of Utah Health Care Hospitals and Clinics as he discusses the culture shift that occurred when the decision was made to start posting doctor reviews online, and how it has led to a renewed commitment to quality care.... Read More

Fueling the "Maker Movement"

Academia is hierarchical, a space where faculty are judged by the size of their NIH grants and research portfolios. But entrepreneurs can have just as great an impact on patient care and the bottom line¿and who better to tinker and dream than students?... Read More

Free the data: Giving patients a voice

Let patients grade us and post the scores online, the good, bad and ugly? Are you crazy? This wasn't the verbatim response of doctors to University of Utah Health Care's push to publish patient satisfaction data on its Find-A-Doctor website. But it¿s pretty close.... Read More

ValueU: Disrupting Health Care and Higher Education

It's the $64 million question. Borrowing LEAN manufacturing principles from the auto industry, we've trained and empowered 2,536 of our front-line health workers–arguably the greatest do-gooders around–to do the good, hard work of redesigning health care. They've brainstormed hundreds of cost-cutting, quality improvement projects. But to build on our success and realize value for all patients, we need to get these tools into the hands of our entire workforce: 16,000 staff, faculty and medical trainees. ... Read More

Cleveland Clinic and University of Utah Embrace Transparency to Drive Change

Transparency is a trending word in health care these days and one that is packed with possibility. Executive Editor of The New England Journal of Medicine Gregory Curfman, M.D., boiled it down to this: providing patients with information and involving them as full partners in decision-making. ... Read More

Telemedicine: all hype, or new hope for the underserved?

Some say telemedicine distances health providers from patients. Jonathan Linkous says it draws them close. ... Read More

Is value a fact-free zone in health care? Michael Porter challenges health systems to redefine the value agenda

Value. It's supposed to be the savior of U.S. health care, a fragmented and opaque delivery system where prices are completely divorced from costs, quality or customer satisfaction. ... Read More

Enter Happiness 2.0: Is patient-centeredness the cure for what ails physicians?

He had ignored the pneumonia-like symptoms for weeks, but awoke Sunday so short of breath he feared having to miss a day of work - his first ever. ... Read More

Limited Time Offer: Major Employers Seek Partners to Fix Health Care

It's not everyday that the Walt Disney Corporation courts business partners. But their classified ad today might read something like this:... Read More

TED Talk: Molecular Animations help Test Hypotheses

Complex 3D scientific animation is replacing rough sketches and furthering the understanding of complex molecular movement and development. And University of Utah researcher and TED fellow Janet Iwasa, Ph.D., is collaborating with top scientists across the country to create comprehensive molecular models for different viruses, including the AIDS virus. ... Read More

Not your same-old hospital: How design is responding to new priorities in health care

When a pilot steps into the cockpit of any 747 anywhere in the world, he or she knows it will be exactly the same. What can we borrow from industries such as aviation to increase safety through the design of health care facilities? ... Read More

Holy Window Washing, Batman! How superheroes and others are working together for patients in Hershey, PA

What do Spiderman and Batman have to do with patient care? In Hershey Pennsylvania, they play an important role.... Read More

When will new health care legislation gain ground in Congress?

What are the three things AHA members should have on their radar that are happening in Washington, D.C.? ... Read More

"Every Metric is a Person": One patient's journey from statistic to advocacy

When Alicie Cole went into the hospital for a routine procedure, she never dreamed she'd end up spending two months there, one of them in the ICU. ... Read More

Physicians who are dismissive to nurses affect quality of care and bottom line

Are physicians unknowingly compromising the quality of care by discouraging nurse input in the process? Barbara Lewis, founder of Joan's Bill of Rights, asked nurses that question and their answers might surprise you. ... Read More

Building a challenge: How a hospital pioneered a medical innovation

When the CEO of St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Oakland, Michigan asked for a new hospital building, the board came back with an unexpected challenge: "Build us something that's never been seen before, something not made of bricks and mortar." ... Read More