A Utah Perspective
Former Lieutenant Governor Greg Bell is now the president/CEO of the Utah Hospital Association. In a January 2017 editorial in the Salt Lake Tribune, Bell explores how payment reform may impact Utah. Bell argues that congressional inaction could limit hospitals and doctors’ ability to provide healthcare in Utah, especially for rural and low-income Utahns.
Access the original Salt Lake Tribune Op-ed: "Any ACA repeal must restore funds for hospitals" here.
Accelerate Editorial Team
Your gut tells you a process could be better than it is—how do you back that feeling up with hard data? Senior value engineer Luca Boi shows how undertaking a baseline analysis can jumpstart your improvement project.
Finding evidence to change the status quo isn’t easy; thinking about evidence in terms of how it persuades—whether subjective or objective—can make it easier. Plastic surgery resident Dino Maglić and his colleagues followed their guts and saved money by improving the laceration trays used to treat patients in the emergency department.
Improvement work isn’t easy, especially when it attempts to address rising health care costs. Solid organ transplant coordinator Sharon Ugolini and her team led award-winning work implementing new protocols for common tests. That led to more than just reduced patient charges, though — ordering appropriate tests increases value and quality, as well.
