This post is sponsored by Mayo Clinic Quality Conference. “We can do better” was the underlying takeaway message from the 15th Annual Mayo Clinic Quality Conference “Creating and Paying for Value in Health Care.” The conference, May 3-4, 2011, in Rochester, Minn., drew about 1,000 people to hear national leaders in health care quality as […]
Researchers at Rochester, Minnesota-based Mayo Clinic believe they have hit upon a new way to test for pancreatic cancer, which kills 94 percent of the roughly 43,000 Americans who are diagnosed with the condition each year. The noninvasive test involves DNA testing of patients’ stool samples. The study aimed to detect methylations in stool samples […]
Yusuf Qasim, President of Payments Optimization at Zelis, discussed how the company is transforming healthcare payments from a fragmented, patchwork system into a modern, digital infrastructure.
Researchers at Rochester, Minnesota-based Mayo Clinic have designed a new tool for identifying protein function from genetic code after successfully switching individual genes off and on in zebrafish, and then observing embryonic and juvenile development, the Clinic announced Monday. The feat has the potential to provide insight into how cancerous cells spread, what makes some […]
A Mayo Clinic ophthalmologist has been named the new president of University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina, a regional health system serving 29 counties in eastern North Carolina. Dr. David Herman is currently medical director of the Mayo Clinic Affiliated Practice Network. He is a consultant in ophthalmology at Mayo and a professor of ophthalmology […]
Updated: 3:05 p.m. The ultimate validation of any corporate initiative is a big, fat embrace by popular culture. So chalk up another win for Mayo Clinic’s industry-leading healthcare social media program. It’s been recognized by the Charlie Sheen crowd. Sheen, who’s had a minor public meltdown recently, is on the hunt for an intern to […]
Mayo Clinic is providing expertise for a group of Harvard Business School students starting an incubator called Rock Health for people with innovative ideas for improving healthcare delivery. Dr. Michael Matly, who is in charge of business development at Rochester, Minnesota-based Mayo’s two-year-old Center for Innovation, has a Harvard MBA himself. Officials at the school […]
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The 15th Annual Mayo Clinic Quality Academy Conference, May 3-4, 2011, in Rochester, Minn., is an excellent opportunity to learn how others are tackling quality challenges. As Mayo Clinic’s director of quality, I’m immersed in what’s happening in quality here and around the country. Yet, every year I participate in this event, I leave fired up with new ideas. There will be dozens of presentations on what’s working -- right now -- in hospitals and clinics to improve patient safety, outcomes and satisfaction.
In the current environment there is considerable concern about how health care providers can improve their effectiveness while being able to improve their efficiency. Improving health care quality may seem daunting, overwhelming or best left to someone else to figure out. The 15th Annual Mayo Clinic Quality Academy Conference, "Creating and Paying for Value in Health Care," will give participants the opportunity to see many creative, innovative and practical quality initiatives that are happening on the front lines of patient care.
Medical imaging software company OnPoint Diagnostics has separated from the incubator that gave it life. But OnPoint seems to be recovering from a rocky start. OnPoint's software automates a mandatory accreditation process required of hospitals and imaging centers to get federal reimbursement for MRI scans.
Last spring, Minnesota businessman Tom Petters was convicted to 50 years in federal prison for masterminding a $3.7 billion Ponzi scheme. One person who says he was subpoenaed involuntarily by the Petters defense team to provide testimony was George Danko, a former executive at both Kardia Health Systems and the troubled Healthcare IP Partners. Now Danko finds himself a target of Douglas Kelley, the court-appointed trustee who is attempting to recover money bilked from investors.
Greenway Health blends smart technology with human expertise to elevate revenue cycle.
Investing in healthcare is harder than it seems, even when you have the Mayo Clinic name behind you. Minnesota incubator Health IP Partners was created to commercialize technology from Mayo Clinic and similar institutions. But it is shutting down after less than two years. The organization, among other things, improperly leveraged Mayo's name for fundraising purposes.
Mayo Clinic had a solid 2010. Read more about how the Minnesota healthcare organization performed last year as it held down its expenses while it grew revenue.
The Transform symposium, organized by the Mayo Clinic’s Center for Innovation (CFI), is the only health care innovation conference deeply grounded in the daily workings of a major medical center -- the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Now in its third year -- the 2011 Transform conference is scheduled for Sept. 11-13 at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota -- the symposium in its first two years brought 62 speakers before some 900 attendees.
New York Times columnist Virginia Heffernan suggests a new standard for online health information: that advice directly from reputable health systems beats third-party reporting coupled with a review, particularly when there is a greater financial motive behind the latter approach. Such a change would mean that health systems, which lost some of its influence for health information before the Internet revolution, would suddenly regain mindshare they lost to the Web and the WebMD's of the world.
The Mayo Clinic Proton Beam Therapy Program will use an advanced type of proton beam therapy known as pencil beam scanning, which uses a narrower beam. Developed at a Swiss physics institute about a decade ago, it's still only in use at a few centers. The MD Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas in Houston became the first U.S. clinic to begin using the treatment in 2008. Harvard's Massachusetts General Hospital announced the addition pencil-beam scanning at its center in 2009.