Mayo Clinic's Center for Social Media named 17 members Wednesday to its advisory board, which will help draft industry guidelines and best practices for using social media to improve health care. Mayo launched the social media center last summer with the goal of helping the health care community improve care through the use of social media tools like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.
The Mayo Clinic wants a lead role in helping the nation improve health care quality while lowering costs, and it continued to signal that ambition on Tuesday by announcing the launch of a new Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery.
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.
Dr. Deborah Rhodes spoke in early December at TEDWomen, one of a series of events that highlights innovative thinkers and "ideas worth spreading." Since the speech was posted online late last week, it has become one of TEDWomen's "most emailed" and has caused a deluge of interview requests, said a Mayo spokesperson. In her talk, Rhodes zeroed in on the center of recent controversy and confusion over mammogram guidelines: breast density.
One of the biggest storyies in the National Football League this season revolves around concussions resulting from horrific hits on the field. Last week, chip maker Intel Corp. said it's researching the topic, partnering with universities and a major helmet manufacturer to develop computer simulations that can assess the risk of head injuries. Key to Intel's efforts is a collaboration with Mayo Clinic.
Mayo Clinic is partnering with a Seattle-based biotech startup to develop vaccines against breast cancer and smallpox, the company said. TapImmune Inc. (OTCBB:TPIV) said it reached a deal to license Mayo technology that will help the company develop a vaccine that it says can prompt the body's immune system to mount an aggressive attack on the diseases.
Mayo Clinic said Tuesday it will adopt proton beam technology -- which can better deliver radiation to cancer cells without harming normal cells -- at its three main campuses in Rochester, Minnesota; Phoenix, Arizona; and Jacksonville, Florida; at a cost of $360 million.
Meevo offers an all-in-one solution for managing salon and spa employees. From scheduling and time tracking to payroll and promotions, Meevo streamlines operations and supports growth.
Mayo's Clinical Trials Management System positions the health system to increase its presence in both industry-sponsored trials as well as trials sponsored by the National Cancer Institute, Mayo officials said. Organizations like NCI are pushing broader use of Clinical Trials Management Systems so researchers can share more data with fewer errors and in a more organized way.
Mayo Clinic said Tuesday that it's taking its social media push overseas. The non-profit research and hospital group, based in Rochester, Minnesota, launched the Social Media Health Network, an international group that promotes the use of social media tools like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter to promote health, fight disease and improve healthcare around the world.
One's a registered nurse. Others are a healthcare Web strategist, a hospital digital communications manager, a healthcare lawyer, an interactive marketing specialist, a sociologist-activist, even an e-patient. But there's not a single doctor on the emerging external advisory board for Mayo Clinic's Center for Social Media.
Speaking at the Mayo Clinic's Transformation 2010 Conference, Dr. Sidna Tulledge-Schietel unveiled a beefed-up version of Health Manager that creates a continuous, real-time relationship between caregivers and patients, especially those suffering from chronic diseases like diabetes.
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By creating a free or "open" platform that allows people to share and analyze medical information, the system can tap the collective intelligence of the world to improve technology and solve global problems. In other words, 6 billion brains are better than one.
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a Mayo Clinic researcher $11.2 million to study how analyzing human DNA can improve patient response to drugs. Dr. Richard Weinshilboum is one of 21 researchers across the country to receive a collective $161.3 million over the next five years to study pharmacogenomics. The scientists will use genome […]
The Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation will host “Transform2010:Thinking Differently about Health Care,” the third annual collaborative symposium aimed at changing the way health care is experienced and delivered, on Sept. 12-14 in Rochester, Minn. Transform2010 will feature 35 internationally recognized speakers who are transforming health care by applying innovation, design thinking, and other bold creative approaches. Their talks will cover themes including Health for All, Emerging Communities, Making Good Decisions, Designing Health, New World-New Technologies, and Designing Transformative Business for Health.
Mayo Clinic is one of six medical research centers in the United States tapped by the National Institutes of Health to study the long-term reactions of human immune systems to diseases and vaccines. NIH hopes the five-year, $100 million effort, funded by the federal stimulus law, will help researchers design better vaccines to treat diseases […]
Mayo Clinic has created a social media center that will train other hospitals in the use of social media tools like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. Mayo is billing the new venture as “a first-of-its-kind social media center focused on healthcare,” according to a statement from Rochester, Minnesota-based Mayo. Mayo has proven itself to be perhaps […]