Imagine what college tuition would look like if higher education charged on a fee-for-service model, suggested Harvard Business School luminary Clayton Christensen. Education would be broken down into specific services, and students would be charged separately for each lecture they attended, each test they took, each hour they spent in a lab. It would be ¿a nightmare,¿ says Christensen. ¿How do you price English Literature 335? How would you price Chemistry 311? The value of courses is not knowable.¿... Read More
Why Utah? That's an all-too-familiar question for those of us who have chosen to live and work in the Beehive State. So we decided to ask some of our rock star faculty, who could choose to work almost anywhere, why they've chosen to work at University of Utah Health Sciences. Their honest responses and remarkable accomplishments tell a pretty compelling story. Watch the video and then let us know what your impression of Utah is.... Read More
It became known as the "baby bong project."
Stanford University students looking for cost-effective ways to build inhalers for impoverished children in Latin America stumbled upon an unorthodox method during their research process.... Read More
Talk about TMI. One trillion devices are moving at breakneck speed, generating 2.5 quintillion bytes of data per day. In the world of medicine, information is doubling every five years. In 2010 alone, 700,000 new articles were catalogued by the National Library of Medicine. ... Read More
Clearly, the drug development process is under significant stress. Vicki Seyfert-Margolis, Ph.D. former Senior Advisor for Science Innovation and Policy at the U.S Food and Drug Administration, recently visited the University of Utah Health Sciences to talk about some of the most significant challenges facing drug development and offer some possible solutions.... Read More
If necessity is indeed the mother of invention, then our current drug development model is ripe for change. "If we want health care and medical products to be accessible, they have to be available at a price that is affordable," says Frank F. Weichold M.D., Ph.D., the Director of Critical Path and Regulatory Science Initiatives at the FDA. "And as such, we have to rethink how we develop drugs, how we develop products, and how we approve them."... Read More
As health care costs continue their long arc upward, what's a company to do? According to an article in the Washington Post, companies employing 10 or more workers paid an average of $10,588 per employee for health care benefits last year. Facing unsustainable financial pressure to provide health care benefits to their employees, many employers are shifting the cost to their employees: requiring them to pay higher insurance premiums and deductibles or by reducing services in health care plans. ... Read More
"You know the old adage, "Change is good. You go first," quipped AAMC President Darrell Kirch at the association's annual meeting in early November. While that may have described the attitude of academic medical centers (AMCs) in the past, Kirch says he's finding more people are willing to go first.... Read More
In a recent interview with Eric Topol, M.D., at the AAMC 2012 conference, the Utah Innovation team heard one view of the role of both individualized health care and health care providers in the coming years. Topol is and has been an advocate for the use of wireless devices to empower patients by allowing them to tune in to their body via medical apps and other devices.... Read More
