Tomorrow's Health by Steve Klasko, MD, MBA

At Monday’s MediFuture2023 event, I laid out my vision for the future of how Tampa Bay could look as a hub for healthcare innovation. [...]

By Rick Homans and Dr. Stephen Klasko Have you ever watched an industry transform and said, “I wish I had thought of that?” Have you ever wished Facebook or Apple was your idea? Well, here’s your chance … before it happens. Health care is on the brink of its largest metamorphosis in our lifetime. In the past, most communities have [...]

In the 1960s, the quintessential doctor show featured Marcus Welby, MD: a primary care physician who made house calls, didn’t charge patients who couldn’t afford it, maybe even delivered a calf on the side of the road — all before performing difficult surgery on a young patient. Fast forward to 2012, and we are treated to non-stop House, the drug-addicted, narcissistic (but brilliant) 21st century [...]

The great thing about USF Health Research Day is that it brings people together. What makes an academic medical center special is what’s behind it – the people who are taking care of patients and going to school and yet also making new scientific discoveries. When a patient is ill, or when they want to stay well, they don’t think [...]

One of the best things about our students in the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine is how many of them are already emerging [...]

It’s January 2013, and much of the last year was spent by those involved in leading health organizations wondering about health care reform — [...]

Here at USF Health, we have the best kind of evidence for why academic medicine matters: a healthy baby girl. In October, one of [...]

As healthcare transforms itself, so must medical education. It’s not enough for medical schools simply to push for expanded enrollment. We need to provide [...]

When any of us travel on an airplane, we know the pilot is competent. That’s because within the last year, that pilot has had [...]

Check out the trailer for the new documentary, “Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare,” coming out Friday: So far, it sounds like a movie I would make! It’s great to see the buzz surrounding a film that could help bring more attention to the problems of our broken healthcare system – problems that, as I have to repeat, [...]