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Med school program to focus on population health, SDOH

4/13/2021

Intermountain Healthcare and the University of Utah School of Medicine are partners in a program to train new physicians in population health and how to address patients' social determinants of health. Intermountain pledged to invest $50 million in the University of Utah Intermountain Healthcare Population Health Student Scholars Program, which also is designed to address a shortage of physicians in the state.

Coalition pushes for health IT safety standards

10/23/2020

EHRs can both enhance patient safety and increase the risk for harm, and the Joint Commission should require hospitals to conduct safety audits and establish an IT error reporting system as conditions for accreditation, according to the Pew Charitable Trusts, MedStar Health and the University of Utah School of Medicine. The partners sent a framework to the Joint Commission outlining best practices for health IT use, governance, training, hazard identification and clinical decision support.

Outbreak raises ethical concerns for health care leaders

3/23/2020

James Tabery, of the University of Utah School of Medicine's Program in Medical Ethics and Humanities, says the coronavirus pandemic presents health care leaders with ethical concerns regarding who gets treatment, access to testing, vaccine decisions and health care worker safety. Tabery said health care workers have competing obligations about coming to work to care for patients and protecting their own safety and interests.

Outbreak raises ethical concerns for health care leaders

3/19/2020

James Tabery, of the University of Utah School of Medicine's Program in Medical Ethics and Humanities, says the COVID-19 pandemic presents health care leaders with ethical concerns regarding who gets treatment, access to testing, vaccination decisions and health care worker safety. Tabery said health care professionals have competing obligations about coming to work to care for patients and protecting their own safety and interests.

Outbreak raises ethical concerns for health care leaders

3/19/2020

James Tabery, of the University of Utah School of Medicine's Program in Medical Ethics and Humanities, says the coronavirus outbreak presents health care leaders with ethical concerns regarding who gets treatment, access to testing, vaccine decisions and health care worker safety. Tabery said health care workers have competing obligations about coming to work to care for patients and protecting their own safety and interests.

Outbreak raises ethical concerns for health care leaders

3/18/2020

James Tabery, of the University of Utah School of Medicine's Program in Medical Ethics and Humanities, says the coronavirus pandemic presents health care leaders with ethical concerns regarding who gets treatment, access to testing, vaccine decisions and health care worker safety. Tabery said health care workers have competing obligations about coming to work to care for patients and protecting their own safety and interests.

Sperm DNA fragmentation offers promising approach in fertility testing

2/5/2019

Sperm DNA fragmentation testing could be a more effective approach to identifying sperm abnormalities that may affect male fertility, but ease of access is a significant challenge. Consistency and translatability also present challenges, but standardized procedures and results reporting could help address these issues, says James Hotaling, co-director of the fertility integrated practice unit at the University of Utah School of Medicine.

Social workers can help ensure surrogates understand end-of-life wishes

3/24/2017

Social workers or other health care professionals may need to take a greater role in ensuring elderly patients' end-of-life wishes are understood by their surrogates, a new study shows. This can involve leading a discussion between the two, and "regularly coming back to this topic before the crisis occurs," said Timothy Farrell of the University of Utah School of Medicine.

Pelvic pain common, often unreported among reproductive-age women

10/13/2015

Researchers from the National Institutes of Health and the University of Utah School of Medicine found that a high proportion of reproductive-age women may be experiencing pelvic pain that goes untreated. More than 400 women were surveyed, and reports of pain were highest among those diagnosed with endometriosis (as expected); however, one-third of those without any pelvic condition reported a high degree of ongoing or frequent pain. Read the abstract in Human Reproduction.