Mayo Clinic has built its own Facebook.
But don’t expect Mayo’s service to be anything like Google+, another freshly launched direct challenger to Facebook’s hold over online social networking.
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Plenty more news streamed out of the conference of the American Diabetes Assn. over the weekend, including progress toward an artificial pancreas, data on young diabetics at risk for heart disease and mobile apps for prevention and management of diabetes.
More than 13,500 people gathered in San Diego at the 71st annual scientific conference of the ADA to lead the fight against diabetes, a disease that affects more than 26 million children and adults in the U.S., according to the ADA.
The nation’s highest court has agreed to hear a patent violation case brought by a California diagnostic firm against the Mayo Clinic.
In accepting the case, the high court will decide which diagnostic medical tests can be patented. Prometheus Labs is the owner of the patents, which it claimed, were infringed upon by Mayo.
In early 2009, six medical professional societies got together to write a guide for 180 cardiac revascularization procedures.
A recent survey, however, shows that there may not be consensus amongst the doctors who practice the surgical and percutaneous coronary intervention procedures.
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, Minn.-based Mayo’s two-year-old Center for Innovation, has a Harvard MBA himself. Officials at the school introduced Matly to Halle Tecco and other soon-to-be Harvard graduates who are launching the San Francisco-based incubator.
What’s going on in the North Star State?
A Minnesota incubator created to commercialize technology from Mayo Clinic and similar institutions is being dismantled less than two years after its launch.
The clinic also charges that its name was improperly leveraged for fundraising purposes, a charge confirmed by the spokesman of the incubator: Healthcare IP Partners.
By Chris Seper
It’s hard to gauge the impact of The New York Times’ critique of WebMD. Is it just one columnist’s opinion? Or is it a signal that standards for online health advice are going to change?
Times columnist Virginia Heffernan cracked WebMD as “synonymous with Big Pharma Shilling” and the ultimate place for “hypochondria time suck.”
The Mayo Clinic announced Thursday that a longtime patient and philanthropist has donated $100 million to help establish a cancer-fighting proton beam therapy program.
The gift, from Iowa entrepreneur Richard Jacobson, will help fund Mayo’s proton beam therapy program, which will include facilities on the clinic’s Rochester, Minn., and Phoenix, Ariz., campuses.
The Mayo Clinic wants a lead role in helping the nation improve healthcare quality while lowering costs, and it continued to signal that ambition with the launch of its new Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery.
The initiative will focus on identifying, creating and promoting best practices for delivering healthcare, with an initial focus on wellness and the prediction, prevention and management of chronic diseases.
Mayo Clinic was the first medical center to use Medtronic Inc.’s (NYSE:MDT) heart tissue freezing device.
Hospital physician Dr. Douglas Packer yesterday treated an atrial fibrillation patient with the Minneapolis-based company’s Arctic Front cardiac cryoablation catheter system.