business

May 11, 2012

Vanderbilt honors top graduates during Commencement

Top scholars from Vanderbilt University’s undergraduate and professional schools are being honored with Founder’s Medals during Commencement on Friday, May 11.

By VUMC News and Communications

February 2, 2010

Study of Midwestern medical center shows low safety reporting by medical residents

According to a just-released, large-sample study, the extent to which medical residents are involved in reporting safety incidents is limited, indicating a need for more institutional focus about how, when, why and where incidents should be reported.

By VUMC News and Communications

October 8, 2009

Video: Health Care Business Alliance keynote speech

Health care business leaders and experts tackle hot button issues in health care as Vanderbilt hosts the Health Care Business Alliance. Watch the Oct. 2 keynote speech by Randall Spratt, Chief Information Officer and Chief Technology Officer of McKesson Corporation.

By VUMC News and Communications

October 8, 2009

Video: “Debating Obama’s Health Care Reform”

Health care business leaders and experts tackle hot button issues in health care as Vanderbilt hosts the Health Care Business Alliance. Watch the Oct. 2 panel discussion.

By VUMC News and Communications

September 8, 2009

TIPSHEET: Vanderbilt experts available to talk about the health care reform debate

William Turner, former Obama health care advisor, Betts Chair and Professor of Education and Human Development, Peabody College of Education and Human Development, is among several Vanderbilt professors available to comment on health care reform.

By VUMC News and Communications

March 18, 2009

Treat health insurance like auto insurance and hold people accountable

The keys to fixing the U.S. health care system are to hold people accountable for their actions; treat health insurance like auto insurance and tax individual’s health care benefits said Larry Van Horn, a leading expert and researcher on health care management and economics.

By VUMC News and Communications

November 3, 2008

Video: Bill Frist at the Health Care Business Alliance

Watch video of Bill Frist speaking at the inaugural Health Care Business Alliance hosted by the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management.

By VUMC News and Communications

October 14, 2008

Senator Bill Frist to teach MBA & medical students at Vanderbilt

Former United States Senate Majority Leader and transplant surgeon Bill Frist, M.D., is returning to Vanderbilt to lead a first-of-its-kind academic experience at the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management.

By VUMC News and Communications

June 17, 2008

Improving the business of health care

There\'s more to great health care than medicine. While physicians, nurses and hospital administrators are experts at patient care, they often lack the business skills needed to be effective managers. The new Vanderbilt Master of Management in Health Care is a one-year degree program designed to arm clinical professionals with the business fundamentals and decision-making skills needed to successfully manage people, programs and processes.