ANNOUNCEMENT

These 11 companies will be featured in the MedCity ENGAGE Innovation Showcase June 5-6 in Washington, D.C.

Cleveland Clinic and Doximity join up to make earning CME credits more social, flexible

Cleveland Clinic and Doximity join up to make earning CME credits more social, flexible

May 21, 2013 7:33 am by | 0 Comments

Digital health startup Doximity and the Cleveland Clinic are collaborating on a new digital platform that would give physicians a more flexible and social way to earn continuing medical education ... Read more

Moving from a volume-based to a value-based healthcare system

Moving from a volume-based to a value-based healthcare system

May 20, 2013 1:31 pm by | 0 Comments

SAN FRANCISCO’ We are at the beginning of the beginning of a new age for health care. Digital technology is fundamentally transforming the practice of medicine, but Dr. David Levin, ... Read more


Better stent surgery stats needed: heart doctors

Better stent surgery stats needed: heart doctors

May 10, 2013 4:15 pm by | 1 Comments

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Publicly reported statistics about how patients fare after a common heart procedure often are inaccurate, says a new study that suggests publishing the poor quality ... Read more

Cleveland Clinic research spurs a device that could predict arrhythmia after cardiac surgery

Cleveland Clinic research spurs a device that could predict arrhythmia after cardiac surgery

April 30, 2013 9:03 am by | 0 Comments

The latest startup commercializing intellectual property developed by heart doctors at the Cleveland Clinic is hoping to give doctors a way to tell which patients might develop arrhythmia after cardiac ... Read more

Cleveland Clinic Innovations: IT commercialization manager will be interim director after Coburn’s exit

Cleveland Clinic Innovations: IT commercialization manager will be interim director after Coburn’s exit

April 24, 2013 1:18 pm by | 0 Comments

Cleveland Clinic’s corporate venture arm is turning to its general manager of IT commercialization to fill the role of departing Executive Director Chris Coburn–at least temporarily.The Clinic said today that ... Read more

Hospital tech transfer transformed: A quick history of Cleveland Clinic Innovations

Hospital tech transfer transformed: A quick history of Cleveland Clinic Innovations

April 12, 2013 5:12 pm by | 1 Comments

With the news that Chris Coburn is leaving Cleveland Clinic Innovations comes the question who’s going to take over? The Clinic isn’t giving any clues, but it’s going to be ... Read more

Updated: Coburn to exit Cleveland Clinic Innovations for Partners HealthCare in Boston

Updated: Coburn to exit Cleveland Clinic Innovations for Partners HealthCare in Boston

April 12, 2013 10:03 am by | 0 Comments

UPDATED 2:45 p.m. to add job title and comments from Partners HealthCare.Cleveland Clinic Innovations’ executive director, Chris Coburn, who has led the prolific technology commercialization arm of the Clinic since ... Read more


Cleveland Clinic history video illustrates the evolution of healthcare everywhere

Cleveland Clinic history video illustrates the evolution of healthcare everywhere

April 9, 2013 10:51 pm by | 0 Comments

Although the narrator is a little over the top (that deep voice is a better fit for announcing movie previews or an alien invasion), this new video from the Cleveland ... Read more

Cleveland Clinic presents anesthesia IT: New healthcare startup Talis Clinical

Cleveland Clinic presents anesthesia IT: New healthcare startup Talis Clinical

March 12, 2013 5:12 pm by | 0 Comments

When the Cleveland Clinic determined in 2008 that its anesthesia information management system wasn’t meeting its needs, the Clinic charged leaders within its own walls with creating a better system. ... Read more

Penn Medicine decision not to hire smokers part of a controversial trend

Penn Medicine decision not to hire smokers part of a controversial trend

February 21, 2013 5:20 am by | 0 Comments

Penn Medicine's decision to hire only nonsmokers starting July 1 is part of a slow-moving trend that goes back decades and that is still controversial even among public health workers, ... Read more

Cleveland Clinic’s newest joint venture targets hospital supply chain for cost savings

Cleveland Clinic’s newest joint venture targets hospital supply chain for cost savings

February 7, 2013 4:52 pm by | 0 Comments

As hospitals feel the squeeze to cut costs, they have many places to look. Some are evaluating how things are done in the operating room. Others are mining data for ... Read more

A new model for hospital collaboration & innovation: Nonprofit systems fund stand-alone Innovation Institute

A new model for hospital collaboration & innovation: Nonprofit systems fund stand-alone Innovation Institute

February 5, 2013 2:12 pm by | 0 Comments

As hospitals work to boost their efficiency and the quality of care they deliver, many are finding they need new ways to go about finding and creating solutions to their ... Read more

Pull up a seat in the hospital C-suite for the chief data officer

Pull up a seat in the hospital C-suite for the chief data officer

January 24, 2013 2:20 pm by | 0 Comments

Futurist David Houle has said that, within three years, there won’t be a Fortune 500 company without a chief data officer or chief data engineer. And data has become so ... Read more

Cleveland Clinic expands alliance with MedStar to include clinical research and cardiac care

Cleveland Clinic expands alliance with MedStar to include clinical research and cardiac care

January 7, 2013 3:42 pm by | 0 Comments

The initial “first-of-its-kind” collaboration that the Cleveland Clinic inked with MedStar Health was focused on developing and commercializing new technologies.Now, the heart institute at the MedStar Washington Hospital Center is ... Read more

12 things you need to know to be a true healthcare insider

12 things you need to know to be a true healthcare insider

December 18, 2012 4:34 pm by | 5 Comments

Were you paying attention this year? Who funded the most digital health startups? How many Republican governors think the feds can do a better job with health insurance exchanges? Who ... Read more