Simply reducing health care costs in the United States isn't enough, says health care consultant James Orlikoff. The country must reverse its rate of health care cost growth - or...
President Obama's health care reform simply won't work, said Arnold Relman, M.D. , former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine and professor emeritus of medicine and social medicine...
Prenatal care is governed by medical dogma. Mothers first check in with their doctors around eight weeks’ gestation, setting in motion a regimented schedule of clinic visits and tests -...
Imagine a health care system with zero falls, no medication errors and not a single death from a hospital-acquired infection. Upholding health care's "do no harm" oath isn't easy in...
Drawing pictures. As simplistic and unscientific as it sounds, pictures have been one of the most powerful tools scientists have used to help them understand and explain the unknown. Today...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
"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...
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...
