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April 08, 2021

Intermountain Healthcare is working on a transformative model for the future of healthcare called population health that focuses on keeping people in communities healthy and preemptively addressing cause of illnesses, rather than just treating people when they are sick.

November 17, 2016

According to the noble mission statements of academic medical centers, we are committed to “healing humankind,” “advancing human health,” “alleviating suffering,” and “improving the quality of life” of the community, the country and the world.

October 29, 2015

Why some small Utah providers took the risk of participating in Medicare pilot payment models: Because it is the wave of the future and they are committed to success.

October 07, 2014

Some say telemedicine distances health providers from patients. Jonathan Linkous says it draws them close.

October 03, 2014

He had ignored the pneumonia-like symptoms for weeks, but awoke Sunday so short of breath he feared having to miss a day of work - his first ever.

July 21, 2014

If you wanted to help school children get healthier, one way to reach them is in school. Ahaaa... now you're thinking like a public health provider.

November 03, 2013

For decades we have been facing a health care crisis. Payment imbalances, lagging educational reform, physician shortages, you name it, the health care landscape has been ignoring the inevitable for a long time. When the Association of American Medical Centers (AAMC) met this week in Philadelphia to discuss health care reform, two primary care advocates took the stage to discuss the challenges Academic Medical Centers (AMC's) face in delivering population health.

November 03, 2013

The idea of viewing population health through the lens of a hospital isn't accurate anymore. There are many resources to bear when you consider keeping populations healthy.

November 02, 2013

What kind of change is coming to health care? Will AMC's close in the coming years? In the face of constrained payments, how will different models thrive? Mike Magill, MD and J. Lloyd Michener discuss the new role of primary care and academic medical centers in delivering population health.

November 02, 2013

Quick sounds bite and preview of the State of Physician Workforce report released.

April 17, 2013

Talk about TMI. One trillion devices are moving at breakneck speed, generating 2.5 quintillion bytes of data per day. In the world of medicine, information is doubling every five years. In 2010 alone, 700,000 new articles were catalogued by the National Library of Medicine.