University of Utah MBA/MHA students took Top Ten in the 2013-14 Utah Entrepreneur Challenge, a statewide student business plan competition. The Utah Entrepreneur Series is a division of the Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute and David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah. This year, the top-10 teams were chosen from 126 submissions with finalist teams from the University of Utah, University of Phoenix, Brigham Young University and Weber State University. The winning team received a $40,000 grand prize. Top Ten business ideas included Doxy.me — a telemedicine tool that is HIPAA compliant, free, easily customizable and simple to use. This idea was developed by the University of Utah team including three students from the MBA/MHA program.
Scott Barlow, CEO Central Utah Clinic, and member of the MHA Community Advisory Board, was awarded CEO of the Year by Utah Business magazine. Central Utah Clinic is the largest physicians group in Utah comprised of nearly 200 independent physicians offering 25 specialties and the first to implement an electronic record system linking all of the physicians’ practices. Central Utah Clinic has sustained a growth rate of 25 percent for the last eight years, and they are Utah’s first ACO. Mr. Barlow has an undergraduate degree in business management from the David Eccles School of Business and an MBA from Westminster College.
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Debra Scammon, Emma Eccles Jones Professor of Marketing and Director of the MHA program was awarded the 2014 Masters Teaching Excellence award by the David Eccles School of Business. Scammon teaches Marketing for Healthcare Professionals, a required course in the MHA program and an elective course for other graduate students. She team teaches a three semester capstone course for the MHA students. The teaching team for this cohort course includes Executive Adjunct Faculty members Scott Parker (Intermountain Healthcare’s first CEO, now retired), Joseph Horton (Primary Childrens Hospital CEO and Intermountain Healthcare’s Vice President of Hospital Operations, now retired), and Edward McEachern, MD (COO Saint Alphonsus Health System, Boise, ID).
Our UMentor program, an initiative of the MHA Community Advisory Board was launched spring semester. This program was introduced by chair of the Board, David Entwistle, CEO of University of Utah Hospital. This program pairs MHA students with healthcare executives to provide additional support to first and second year MHA students helping them form lasting and meaningful partnerships with executive level mentors in various settings within the healthcare industry.
The University of Utah’s MHA Program was accepted as a member of Western Regional Graduate Programs. This program, established by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) 60 years ago to promote the sharing of higher education resources among Western states, enables residents of Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands to apply to participating programs and, if accepted, pay in-state tuition.