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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
Hala Durrah's 11-year-old daughter has survived two liver transplants and a bout with lymphoma. Managing her medical affairs was all-consuming for Durrah, who, as a patient advocate at Anne Arundel...
Patient-centered care isn't about looking good on consumer scorecards. It's a mindset, an organizing principle and a means to a greater end: high-value health care, says Tom Lee, Chief Medical...