Texas Children's Hospital in Houston announced the establishment of its first dedicated pediatric robotic surgery program.
Innovation
U.S. hospitals can overcome innovation challenges by taking cues from other businesses, according to a Quartz report.
Healthcare institutions across the country have long worked to ensure their clinicians provide care that is evidence-based. The pursuit is a noble one. Of course any care (outside of a clinical trial) that is provided to a patient should have…
Delos Cosgrove, MD, has served at the helm of Cleveland Clinic for roughly a decade, and one of his biggest ideas to change the landscape of Cleveland — and the nation — is set to launch in October, according to…
Durham, N.C.-based Duke Medicine and Duke University will launch the Duke Institute for Health Innovation in early September, according to a News-Medical report.
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Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare, Xi3 and Intel have launched the Healthcare Transformation Lab in collaboration with technology companies Dell, CenturyLink, NetApp and Sotera Wireless.
Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center announced that its commercialization arm, Wake Forest Innovations, has signed a memorandum of understanding with CHA Health Systems, based in Seoul, South Korea.
Climate change may seem like a divisive policy issue, but after Hurricane Sandy decimated parts of New York City and other areas along the East Coast, the tone of the discussion began to take a turn.
Human connection — speaking with individuals one-on-one — is often the difference between an innovation becoming widely adopted quickly and one making little headway, according to an article by Atul Gawande, MD, in The New Yorker.
Marshfield (Wis.) Clinic, a multispecialty group practice with more than 700 physicians, announced it has joined Cleveland Clinic's innovation organization to develop and commercialize medical innovations to improve patient care.