Health Care Insider

Health Care Insider


Latest Episodes

Health Care Insider: Focus On How Your Patients Define Value
November 27, 2017

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
September 05, 2017

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
August 16, 2017

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
June 23, 2017

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
June 13, 2017

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
May 05, 2017

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
April 07, 2017

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
March 31, 2017

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
March 09, 2017

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
December 09, 2016

University of Utah Health Sciences Radio