A middle-aged man with sepsis from a diabetic foot wound was admitted to a rural Utah hospital. It was clear the patient needed to be transferred to University of Utah Health for specialty care.

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of digital health tools and reshaped how health care is delivered and accessed. Digital health is often thought to increase access to medical care, ...

Today’s K-12 environment demands that security is foremost in the minds of school administrators, teachers, parents and students. Recent events in the news and past tragedies have left many feeling ...

A colleague recently told me that climate justice is about building ties between people, their land, and their traditional, ancestral ways. In all my years of doing environmental work, this is one of ...

Research over the last several decades has shown that the value of a traditional annual physician exam is relatively low. But healthcare systems are rethinking that stance — not by abandoning the ...

Effective leadership requires envisioning the organization as one interconnected system rather than isolated parts.

As Secretary Pete Hegseth pushes to speed up the development and fielding of new weapons and systems, he should look to a powerful, yet underused tool: modular open systems approach. The law already ...

Systems thinking is an accepted approach for healthcare organizations to deliver better patient care. By designing programs that focus on patients as a whole person and member of the care team, as ...

The success of real-time digital systems comes from optimizing processing for the most important tasks rather than speeding up overall execution.

“There is hope that we can change this culture and not drive [clinicians] to extremes in which they cause harm to themselves or inadvertently cause harm to patients as a result of a system that is ...