Brandon Glenn is the Ohio bureau chief for MedCity News.
Healthcare innovation is Brandon Rowberry‘s business. Many in the health industry likely won’t think “insurance” when they hear “innovation,” but Rowberry — vice president of innovation development at Minnesota-based UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH) — is working to change that perception. And Rowberry and UnitedHealth are already achieving results. UnitedHealth has been tapped by Forbes as the […]
Cleveland Clinic Innovations has hired Pat Fortune, a venture capitalist who spent the previous decade with Boston Millennia Partners. Fortune’s new title is senior general manager, according to the Innovations group’s June newsletter. “Part of my job now is to figure out better ways to define and harvest the intellectual property and content coming out […]
Zelis CEO Amanda Eisel shares her perspective on how the company is solving the problems of a fragmented health financial system to benefit all.
Cardiac inflammation biomarker test company Cleveland HeartLab has been tapped as the Ohio Venture Association‘s “venture of the year.” The last year has been an eventful one for the Cleveland-based company: It spurned a buyout offer from an unidentified Massachusetts suitor, closed an $18.4 million series B round of investment, moved into a new building […]
Next time you see a news report that your local hospital is looking to hire a few hundred workers, think twice about whether that’s such a good thing for your local economy. Focusing on healthcare jobs is “misguided” because greater employment in the sector doesn’t necessarily go hand-in-hand with improvements in health or economic well-being, […]
I used to get stuck behind the same smoker every morning when I got off the blue line to walk to work down Chicago’s Lake Avenue. As I choked down smoke along with often-frigid air, I’d curse his nicotine addiction, not to mention my own bad luck for seemingly always getting stuck walking behind the […]
Healthcare big data company Explorys has added venture capital firm the Heritage Group as its latest strategic investor. The dollar amount of the investment from Nashville-based Heritage is unclear, but Explorys said it will use the funding to accelerate product development, sales and customer deployments, according to a statement. Cleveland-based Explorys’ other investors include Austin […]
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Investor outrage about excessive executive compensation rears its head from time to time, but STERIS (NYSE:STE) shareholders are unlikely to shake their fists at CEO Walt Rosebrough’s pay package. That’s because Rosebrough’s pay dropped 29 percent to about $2.2 million in STERIS’ fiscal year ended March 31, 2012, compared with the prior year. Rosebrough’s base […]
Have an interest in staying up with the latest in personalized medicine, as well as a Twitter account? Then consider following these 20 personalized medicine thought leaders. This list is restricted to individually-branded, not company-branded, Twitter accounts. To get in on the best conversation, watch for these hashtags: #personalizedmedicine, #pm101, #genomics and #bioinformatics. Robert West, […]
A Cincinnati accelerator for health IT startups that models itself on groups like Rock Health, Blueprint Health and Healthbox has named its inaugural class of companies. The startups in the Innov8 for Health Startup Accelerator include one that’s developed a game aimed at helping children overcome their fears and another that’s creating an app to […]
Great Lakes NeuroTechnologies has been awarded a new patent for its technology that quantifies the severity of movement disorders in Parkinson’s disease patients. Great Lakes’ Kinesia movement disorder assessment technology uses a ring-like sensor worn on a patient’s finger to measure motor symptoms and wirelessly transmit data to physicians on the severity of a patient’s […]
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A bioinformatics company that’s developed software to analyze sequenced genomic data from cancer patients and their tumors has received a $250,000 investment from nonprofit business development group JumpStart. Cleveland-area GenomOncology had previously raised $1.25 million, MedCity News reported late last month. GenomOncology labels itself as a “genomics-as-a-service” business. The company predicts that the key to […]
Among the biggest challenges to the widespread adoption of “big data” tools in healthcare is that many in the industry simply don’t know what valuable secrets the data could hold. In other words, “People don’t realize what’s possible with all the big data we have, so no one even asks the question,” said Tim Kulbago, […]
iPads are just as effective as traditional workstations for radiologists reading MRI and CT scans in emergency situations, according to new research published in the Journal of Digital Imaging. Researchers from Changi General Hospital in Singapore theorized that tablet computers such as the iPad could hold lots of potential for radiologists, because they could fill […]
Arteriocyte Medical Systems has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval for a product associated with its Magellan stem cell harvesting medical device. The latest FDA approval for the Cleveland-based company concerns an anticoagulant solution used in the device, which harvests and quickly concentrates stem cells and blood platelets during surgeries. These concentrated cells can […]
If Ohio’s public colleges end up outlawing on-campus smoking, frustrated and youthful nicotine addicts wishing for a quick puff between classes should point their fingers squarely in the direction of Cleveland Clinic CEO Toby Cosgrove. Long an advocate of the “personal responsibility” brand of healthcare — see his earlier comments wishing he could stop hiring […]