It’s only fitting that a healthcare innovation summit should include the viewpoint of Wil Yu, who leads nationwide healthcare innovation efforts for the United States through the Department of Health and Human Services.As a keynote speaker at MedCity News’ CONVERGE conference on July 10th in Philadelphia, Yu will discuss how incentives in the healthcare system [...]

MedCity Media’s expanded but still industry-centric media model creates timely, relevant, high quality content for those with a vested interest in healthcare. It also provides other outlets with syndicated content already being generated by MedCity News. In 2010 the market for content creation reached $35 billion in North America, with healthcare alone accounting for up to $4 billion.

MedCity News and MinnPost have announced a syndication agreement that will make some MedCity News content available on MinnPost’s website. MinnPost will publish MedCity News articles — primarily about Minnesota topics — on www.minnpost.com. Cleveland-based MedCity News has an office in Minneapolis, where former Star Tribune reporter Thomas Lee writes about the medical industry in Minnesota.

The Rubber City Radio Group (RCRG) and MedCity News have agreed to a content partnership, it was announced today.Under the agreement, Rubber City Radio will use MedCity News content on the award-winning AkronNewsNow.com and will also feature MedCity News content in broadcast programming. The agreement provides for MedCity News staff members to periodically appear [...]

Ohio’s Channel will include a segment focused on the business of health care through a partnership with MedCity News. The Tuesday segment will focus on innovation, influence and the business of health care.

It is the second syndication pact announced this week. Cleveland’s WKYC-TV has also agreed to become a syndication partner for MedCity News. “Adding WKYC and the Akron Beacon Journal demonstrate our value on air and in print as well as online,” MedCity News co-founder Chris Seper said. “We will continue to add syndication partners in new markets and plan to expand into new medical cities to replicate our fully-validated business model.”

MedCity News and WKYC-TV are partnering to provide comprehensive media coverage of the business of health care in Cleveland. This partnership provides that WKYC, a long-time leader in broadcast consumer health news, and MedCity News, a next-generation medical industry news service, will join forces and share content both online and on-air.

MedCity News on Thursday was awarded a grant from the Innovation Fund of the Lorain County Community College Foundation that’s meant for nascent businesses to build out technology to improve their businesses and lead to job growth.