How can the field of medicine eliminate waste when students aren't being trained on the best practices to do so? Dr. Vineet Arora tells us about the Choosing Wisely Challenge...
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...
What would motivate employees to make their organization more efficient? Intuitively, employees could view Lean projects as threats to their own employment and professional growth. So how does any health...
Helen Morant, clinical education specialist, BMJ North America, joins Dennis Jolley from University of Utah Health Sciences to discuss the new AAMC initiative "Maximizing Value." Health systems are looking at...
When Vivian Lee needed to find innovative tactics for how to reduce costs in the health care system, she looked to an air bag manufacturing plant for inspiration.
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...
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...
