Tomorrow's Health by Steve Klasko, MD, MBA

I’ve been talking recently with our students about how they can transform healthcare – and how they can make that   transformation about quality. So here are a few of problems our students can change: The incredibly perverse way our healthcare system incentivizes doctors. If one surgeon has a 20 percent infection rate, and the next has a zero infection [...]

If there is one thing you leave with today…other than your diploma….it is this. Stop listening to people saying the healthcare system is broken. Not because they’re wrong, but because it’s like saying the sky is blue. It’s obvious. Here’s the message:  This is the most exciting time to be entering a career in medicine. Because you are going to [...]

Today is one of the days that make me love being here. I got to look out at an auditorium and see it filled with students and faculty members who want to change healthcare – and they weren’t here because of me or some other faculty member. They were here because their fellow students are leading the way, by starting [...]

Please join me and Dr. Jeff Fabri today for a conversation about how we can change the future. The first meeting of the USF Healthcare Improvement Group will be at noon today in the Lehigh Valley Health Network Auditorium. Lunch will be provided. This new interprofessional group is dedicated to developing a culture and training to advance healthcare quality improvement.

I have been in China all week, where a USF Health team has been talking with hospitals who are interested in collaborating in areas [...]

One of the most aggravating things about healthcare today is the disconnect between the health providers and the healthcare system. Most healthcare professionals chose their careers and devoted their lives to healthcare because they genuinely care about their patients. They want to help people live their best and healthiest lives. They want to cure illnesses and fix health problems. Yet [...]

Welcome to the revolution. The revolution is about physicians, nurses and all kinds of health professionals getting together and deciding to transform healthcare instead of waiting for somebody else to do it for them. That’s what we’re doing here at the Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation. You never transform things by changing the existing reality. You transform things [...]

We had the privilege to host a real American hero at the grand opening of CAMLS  today – although Capt. Jeff Skiles will tell you he’s anything but. Capt. Skiles was the co-pilot of US Airways Flight 1549, the “Miracle on the Hudson” flight that landed everyone on board safely. One of the things that fascinates me about Capt. Skiles is [...]

Today marks a watershed moment at USF Health: the grand opening of the Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation. Last night, Mayor Bob Buckhorn called this a “transformative moment for this city” and that with the opening of CAMLS, the city of Tampa sees “a turning in the page in its book of life.” All of us at USF [...]

We look first at how USF Health can transform health education and training — and I’m proud that we’ll be showing off that potential Friday at the grand opening of the Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation. But it’s important to see ourselves from other perspectives as well. Today CAMLS is hosting a Medical Device Innovation Roundtable at its [...]