St. Vincent Charity Medical Center in Cleveland and the Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron (Ohio) announced a strategic innovation partnership to help surgeons develop and commercialize new solutions.
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Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai announced Zhenqiu Liu, PhD, has joined the health system to study personalized medicine based on DNA.
Heritage Provider Network, a provider of affordable quality healthcare, has announced the end of submissions for its $3 million Heritage Health Prize competition.
There are few certainties in healthcare, but one is that hospitals will generally be facing an increasingly older population. And with age comes more chronically and severely ill patients.
In a session at the American College of Healthcare Executives’ 2013 Congress on Healthcare Leadership on March 13 in Chicago, Molly J. Coyle, MD, chief innovation officer for UCLA Health System, discussed the importance of innovation in healthcare, including the…
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As an individual sector, healthcare is one of the largest consumers of energy.
Healthcare leaders generally recognize that there is no "silver bullet" to any of the challenges the industry presents today — aligning with physicians, improving quality while lowering costs and differentiating oneself in an increasingly competitive market. However, there are some…
The need to innovate in healthcare is well known: Many federal organizations, private companies and hospitals and health systems are encouraging innovation in different ways. Through the State Innovation Model, HHS recently awarded nearly $300 million to states to spur…
Approximately 100 healthcare innovators came together last weekend at the Stanford (Calif.) School of Medicine for the StartX Med/Stanford Hospital Innovation Challenge, a 50-hour weekend event that brought together healthcare entrepreneurs for hands-on education and collaboration.
Last week, Wolters Kluwer held its annual media roundtable in Amsterdam. The event, held in conjunction with the release of the company's annual results, featured several healthcare leaders discussing trends in the industry and for patient care.