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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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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.

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.

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...

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

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...

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

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

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.

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...

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...

If you wanted to help school children get healthier, one way to reach them is in school. Ahaaa... now you're thinking like a public health provider.

Let's face it--medicine in changing but traditional hierarchies in medicine aren't as quick to catch up. Craig Saylor, CEO of Somerset Hospital in Somerset, Pennsylvania shares his take on why...

Hospitals are not innovating as quickly as their emerging competitors: Tech companies marketing wellness gadgets and pharmacy chains opening walk-in clinics. What does the industry need to do to stay...

The global rise of tech companies like Amazon, Apple and Google happened because they paid attention to the hassles consumers faced buying books, renting movies or using their cell phones.

Being impatient and disagreeable generally are not considered admirable qualities. But Malcolm Gladwell suggests they may be exactly the characteristics needed to drive innovation forward. He points to Apple founder...