November 2, 2020
Mayo Clinic Research in the news — 11/2/2020
If you spend any time reading or listening to health care news, you know that some of the same stories are still making their way around the world as last week or even from several weeks back. You may see some repeats from a different news outlet here, but we hope that most of the […]
Tags: Adrian Vella, Amy Oxentenko, artificial intelligence, breast cancer, cancer, cardiology, Center for Clinical and Translational Science, clinical research, COVID-19, depression, education, gastroenterology
February 19, 2019
Home-based palliative care may not be a simple doctor-patient relationship, but the value it adds is simple to understand It takes a village to raise a child. The inputs and interactions with many adults across their community serve to usher children through the ups and downs of life into adulthood and aid them to live […]
Tags: care transitions, Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, Christina Y. Chen, collaboration, Gregory Hanson, Kern Health Care Delivery Scholars, palliative care, population health, quality of life
October 4, 2017
Swimming with sharks nets funding for research projects during the inaugural Kern Scholar Shark Tank
The Mayo Clinic Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery Kern Health Care Delivery Scholars Program held an inaugural Shark Tank–like event, October 2, 2017. The event launched the bi-annual scholar retreat, incorporated into the opening social gathering. These social gatherings provide an opportunity for Kern Scholars Program […]
Tags: Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, Kern Health Care Delivery Scholars
May 30, 2017
The health care industry is under constant pressure to reduce costs. This is especially evident in chronic disease management, where a growing segment of the population – the Centers for Disease Control estimates half of all adults in the United States have one or more chronic conditions – is accumulating an increasing portion of health […]
Tags: Bjorg Thorsteinsdottir, Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, dialysis, Kern Health Care Delivery Scholars, kidney disease, Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine, nephrology, population health, telemedicine
April 20, 2017
Economies of scale: volume in health care
The concept is simple, if you perform the same procedure over and over; day in and day out, you tend to do it better, quicker, and safer than your counterpart who has only done it a few times, or infrequently. It’s referred to in other lines of work as “economies of scale.” The application of […]
Tags: cancer, Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, endometrial cancer, Jeffrey Karnes, Kern Health Care Delivery Scholars, minimally invasive surgery, multiple myeloma, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, prostate cancer, robotic technology, Ronald Go, Sean Dowdy
August 4, 2016
What’s best for my child? What’s best for my patient?
Informed consent made easier in pediatric emergency sedation The science of health care delivery can be very exciting – sometimes offering a futuristic peak into the way things could be. Soon we may have an app that enables near instantaneous health data analysis and distillation, and brings individualized care suggestions to a provider’s fingertips. Crunching […]
Tags: Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, emergency department, Kern Health Care Delivery Scholars, M. Fernanda Bellolio
June 15, 2016
The Mayo Clinic Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery is pleased to welcome four new scholars to the Kern Health Care Delivery Scholars Program. Elizabeth Lorenz, M.D. – Nephrology and Hypertension Research Focus: Health outcomes after transplant Mentorship Team: Andrea Cheville, M.D.; David Eton, Ph.D.; Kathleen […]
Tags: Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, Elizabeth Lorenz, Kern Health Care Delivery Scholars, Michael Wilson, Oliver Tobin, Rahma Warsame