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Health Care Insider: Focus On How Your Patients Define Value
When discussing the topic of value in health care, you need to ask your patients how they define it. Dr. Michael L. Good, Dean of the University of Florida College of Medicine, talks about their value philosophy. He shares some specific initiatives, how m
Health Care Insider: Driving Surgery with Data
Until recently, neurosurgeons lacked significant data to confidently predict the outcome of a surgery. In recent years, a registry of data gathered from how patients perceive their surgical outcomes is helping physicians—and their patients—have better
Health Care Insider: Population Health Can Change Health Care
Population health is a new way of approaching health care that emphasizes prevention in a population rather than treatment of an individual. Angie Fagerlin, chair of the Department of Population Health Sciences at University of Utah Health, explains how a
Health Care Insider: Knowing the Costs Can Positively Change Health Care
Health care organizations are utilizing modern electronic methods to find the specific costs of procedures. Dr. Ken Kawamoto, medical information officer at University of Utah Health talks about how this knowledge can help improve their quality of steward
Health Care Insider: From Concept to Reality—Robotic Brain Surgeon Drill
University of Utah scientists recently revealed a robotic drill that can reduce the most delicate part of brain surgery from more than two hours to just a few moments. The drill has potential to make a big impact on the future of neurosurgery, but what di
Health Care Insider: Creativity Matters in Medicine
Divergent thinking and accepting failure as an important part of a learning process are part of what it means to be creative in medicine, according to Dr. Jay Baruch, director of the Concentration in Medical Humanities and Ethics at Brown University. He s
Health Care Insider: How Analogy Can Help Physicians Communicate Effectively
Sometimes a complex health concept is best explained through an analogy — an easily understood comparison of two different ideas. A medical analogy can be an effective communicative tool for any physician. For example, saying “the heart is like a pump” ba
Health Care Insider: Approaching End-of-Life Conversations as a Physician
End-of-life care is a difficult topic to discuss—not only for patients and loved ones but also for the physicians who treat them. It’s an important conversation for a doctor to have with their terminal patient, but how can you, as a physician, approach th
Health Care Insider: One-Stop Women’s Health Care
Women's health is complicated, and truth is, no physician can be an expert on "all things woman." So how can clinics provide quality, comprehensive health care for women? Dr. Melissa McNeil has worked to develop a comprehensive care clinic for women at th
Health Care Insider: Precision Medicine - The Ethics of Access
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