I think the problem is too many people still think Mayo Clinic is a hospital.Mayo — which treats patients, conducts medical research, launches startup companies, builds mobile apps and serves as a major healthcare publisher — was dinged this weekend for making money on its WebMD-like site, MayoClinic.com. One of the ad networks Mayo uses [...]

Medical device executives with designs on leveraging big data. Innovators pushing insurance companies to think differently. Leaders of startup accelerators ready to reveal what’s next.Our speaker list continues to grow for MedCity CONVERGE, MedCityNews.com’s one-day event on healthcare innovation and convergence on July 10 in Philadelphia. Pfizer’s head of clinical innovation will talk about Big [...]

It’s not small enough.That’s what Muhammad Yunus, the 2006 Nobel Prize-winning economist who proliferated the concept of microcredits, will tell you about most diagnostic medical devices. He recalls arguing with now-Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) CEO Omar Ishrak as they worked together to create a smaller ultrasound device for rural areas in Bangladesh. Ishrak brought back a tablet-sized [...]

How powerful is the electronic medical record? Practice Fusion will stretch the EMR’s muscles over the next year as it tries to incorporate patient-friendly tools and make the product more social. Think one part Yelp and another part Facebook with a dash of telemedicine.On Sunday night the company will launch a physician review portal built [...]

TEDMED organizer Jay Walker closed out the 2012 conference with a mild bombshell. He told the remaining attendees that he is forming an exploratory committee to explore the viability of a “world’s fair” for medical innovation that would be held on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.The announcement was almost a throw-away few sentences in [...]

The TEDMED conference ends today. But – like TED itself – the organizers will post many of the presentations made over these last few days for anyone to see.TEDMED aspires to be the Davos of Healthcare. And the speakers addressed everything for gaming, disruptive approaches to regulating cutting edge medicines, entrepreneurship, lessons from patients drawing [...]

Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) spent a lot of time talking partnerships at the 2012 TEDMED conference. And a company executive said that if there’s one approach the company would look to duplicate in the future, it would be its approach to AIDS.“In terms of how we look at our business today and the investments we [...]

This week’s TEDMED conference is more than just talk. Attendees and those participating nationwide are casting votes for the 20 big health challenges that need solving. There are 51 candidates.The 51st: Sleep. And not just sleep disorders, but getting people to get more sleep so they can be healthier.But is sleep deprivation, which more often [...]

Creativity is supposed to come alive at TEDMED, and everyone is doing their part.In the “social spaces” tent, many of the event sponsors and other companies are coming up with unique approaches to the vendor booth. Booz Allen Hamilton hired an artist to do illustrations of each TEDMED talk and puts them up all around [...]

Here’s something you don’t see often (and probably for good reason): Francis Collins singing.The rock star of the National Institutes of Health brought a guitar to the stage to kick off the first full day of TEDMED in Washington, D.C. He and singer Jill Sobule belted out a pretty well-sung and definitely entertaining tune about [...]