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Communication is the process of replacing beliefs with information.

What if our nation's health industry leaders put their personal agendas aside and came together to collectively fix health care?

While rude, disruptive behavior by physicians on TV may be funny, when it happens in real-life it's decidedly less amusing. And it's time we stop tolerating and ignoring disrespectful behavior...

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...

Faculty member Peggy Battin featured in TedMed talk regarding the end-of-life debate.

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.

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

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...

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...