One year into a research partnership with Cleveland Clinic, IBM and its famed supercomputing software Watson are making headway on helping clinicians with two great healthcare challenges: using electronic health data to its full potential and making the most informed diagnosis. The former is taking shape in a project called Watson EMR Assistant, which combines […]
Innovation and startups, according to Cleveland Clinic CIO Dr. Martin Harris, are the only way the healthcare system will be able to shift to one that’s focused on a new way of delivering team-based care. “We need net new innovators who aren’t in the current delivery cycle bringing us those new tools that we can […]
The future looks bright for the integrated specialty pharmacy model – for health systems, providers, and most importantly, for patients.
Each year, a committee of Cleveland Clinic doctors asks hundreds of their colleagues to weigh in on which emerging healthcare technologies they think will help shape their practice over the next 12 months. Then, the committee evaluates nominations based on clinical impact, probability of commercial success, progress in commercialization and significant human interest, and produces […]
Five years ago, Cleveland Clinic certainly wasn’t one of the highest scored hospitals in patient satisfaction surveys. In fact, its patient satisfaction scores put it in the 30th percentile of hospitals, according to CEO Toby Cosgrove. Today, he said those scores fall in the 74th percentile, which he considers pretty good, especially considering the high […]
It’s been six years since plans for Cleveland’s medical mart, initially a vision of Cleveland Clinic CEO Toby Cosgrove, began to come to life. A lot has happened since then — both setbacks and victories. Plans for rival facilities in two other cities collapsed, for example. That gave way to the Cleveland project landing its […]
When it comes to life science investors looking at deals in the booming field of health IT, some are sticking with the old line, “It’s not you; it’s me.” Certainly many life science investors are making bets in health IT, but many others have shied away, even as the market matures and exits pick up. […]
Closing cancer health equity gaps require medical breakthroughs made possible by new funding approaches.
Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini has been just as much of a healthcare consumer as he has been a healthcare executive. He donated a kidney to his son, who was diagnosed with T-cell lymphoma at 16, and was the equivalent of a helicopter parent to the medical team that cared for his son during his years […]
Fitbits and Nike FuelBands are great in that they have opened up a huge market for wearable self-tracking devices, but in medicine, taking that concept a step further is what’s really going to save lives, according to Leon Eisen, founder and CEO of Oxitone Medical. Oxitone is developing a clinical-grade, wrist-worn device that continuously monitors […]
The reason that innovation in healthcare has lagged behind innovation in other industries certainly isn’t because of a shortage of ideas. That was the message from a panel of executives representing investors, providers, insurers and medical products at the Cleveland Clinic Medical Innovation Summit Monday. They were asked what keeps them up at night, and […]
Mobile health company Kinsa continued its victory lap around the startup competition circuit at the Cleveland Clinic Medical Innovation Summit today, taking home top honors at the summit’s first ever new ventures healthcare challenge. Eleven startups from the StartUp Health Network, which co-presented the challenge with Cleveland Clinic, pitched to a panel of judges that […]
As technology advances, AI-powered tools will increasingly reduce the administrative burdens on healthcare providers.