The Utah Department of Health recognized U of U Health's community clinics earlier this month for their efforts to treat & care for patients with high blood pressure.
The Community Physician Group and the Department of Family & Preventive Medicine have decreased emergency department use, managed 77% of crisis interventions without higher level of care, and tripled the...
One of just 17 entities qualified as a PLE nationwide, U Health now puts expert physicians in the driver’s seat for determining what studies should be used for which patients.
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...
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...
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.
Many people think of transplantation as if our bodies were cars and we just need to replace a single part. Of course, we're much more complex than machines, and that...
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...
