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 [...]

Mayo Clinic has 14 apps for the iPad and 15 on the iPhone.Until Monday, none of the free mobile medical apps were specifically meant for patients. The three free ones were mainly for doctors, alumni and people interested in medical research).In a phone interview, Dr. Sidna Tulledge-Scheitel, associate dean of e-health and medical director of [...]

As a new model of healthcare comes to be established with payments tied to value and not volume of services performed, it is imperative for hospitals to be connected with their patient populations to keep them healthy.One company that is trying to help build that connection — that has traditionally been intermittent and often triggered [...]

Mayo Clinic’s emergency department has a new tool to help tracking patients easier. Read more about hospital ERs and how patients are monitored.

 The Administration on Aging estimates that by 2030, the number of seniors — those 65 and older — will account for 19 percent of the overall U.S. population, up from 12.9 percent in 2009.Cognizant of their growing presence, Mayo Clinic is looking for innovative ways to empower seniors and address their healthcare needs through the [...]

They say you need to learn from the best.And some healthcare social media denizens are having a shot at that through Mayo Clinic’s first healthcare social media residency program that kicked off at its Jacksonville, Florida campus Wednesday. The two-day program aims to teach people how to harness the power of social media within their [...]

The biotech industry has moved swiftly to decry the Supreme Court’s Prometheus decision where the nine justices ruled unanimously in favor of Mayo Clinicthatnatural bodily responses to medical treatment are not patent eligible.In an interview with MedCity News, Kevin Noonan, a partner with intellectual property law firmMcDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff, said that the reason [...]

Mayo Clinic announced Wednesday that it had won a lengthy legal battle against Prometheus Laboratories Inc., based in California, with the Supreme Court unanimously agreeing with its argument that natural bodily responses to medical treatment are not patent eligible.Up until 2004, the Minnesota healthcare provider bought and used a blood test from Prometheusthat allowed doctors [...]

A Colorado redevelopment authority charged with developing a bioscience district near the University of Colorado campus in Aurorahas appointed the head of Mayo Clinic Ventures as its new leader.Fitzsimons Redevelopment Authority announced that Steve VanNurden will become the group’s new president and CEO starting in late May. FRA was created in 1996 as a partnership [...]

Mayo Clinic announced Tuesday that the Coborn Cancer Center in St. Cloud, Minnesota, part of the CentrCare Health System, is the first member of the Mayo Clinic Cancer Care Network.The Mayo Clinic Cancer Care Network is part of the broader Mayo Clinic Care Network that works on the Affiliated Practice Network model to expand care [...]