Category Archives: Health Policy

Mayo Clinic and Care Connectivity Consortium to Address Interoperability at HIMSS 2012

February 22nd, 2012 - 12:29 pm

Dr. Dawn Milliner, Chief Medical Information Officer, Mayo Clinic, explains why the Care Connectivity Consortium believes finding a national solution to interoperability is crucial to the future of health care in America. Our patients deserve the safest, highest quality, most … Continue reading →

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Mayo Clinic: Hospitalization of US Underage Drinkers Common, Costs $755 Million a Year

February 15th, 2012 - 10:13 am

Journalists: see bottom of this post for video and audio resources. Hospitalization for underage drinking is common in the United States, and it comes with a price tag — the estimated total cost for these hospitalizations is about $755 million … Continue reading →

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Mayo Clinic’s Kathleen Harrington to talk the Power of Women to Drive Real Health Care Reform

November 7th, 2011 - 4:05 pm

The message is clear; women hold a unique power to impact the direction of health care reform. “It all begins with how we care for ourselves and those we love,” says Harrington, who will speak to approximately 500 business women … Continue reading →

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Mayo Clinic health care expert offers insight to U.S. Dept. of VA

September 29th, 2011 - 2:04 pm

Stephen Swensen, M.D., the Mayo Clinic Director of Quality, joined a group of national health care experts this week in Washington to advise the United States Department of Veteran Affairs on how to offer the next generation of health care … Continue reading →

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New Insurance Option Provides Canadians Access to Mayo Clinic

May 9th, 2011 - 8:00 am

Mayo Clinic has announced a new health insurance option that will allow Canadians to access Mayo Clinic expertise and care. The product, called MyCare, is provided by Assured Diagnosis, Inc. (ADI) of Canada, and will be available April 15, 2011. MyCare … Continue reading →

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Five Leading Health Systems Create New Care Connectivity Consortium

April 5th, 2011 - 11:01 pm

Five innovative and leading health systems, each of whom are pioneers in the use of electronic medical records for their patients, will join together today to announce a new initiative to securely exchange electronic health data, with the first data … Continue reading →

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Leading Health Care Organizations Announce Collaborative Effort to Improve Care, Six of the nation’s leading health care systems today announced a first-of-its-kind collaboration to improve health care quality while reducing costs.

December 15th, 2010 - 3:51 pm

Six of the nation’s leading health care systems today announced a first-of-its-kind collaboration to improve health care quality while reducing costs. Cleveland Clinic, Dartmouth-Hitchcock, Denver Health, Geisinger Health System, Intermountain Healthcare, and Mayo Clinic will join The Dartmouth Institute for … Continue reading →

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Medical Experts for Media – Government Relations

August 16th, 2010 - 8:00 am

Douglas Wood, M.D. ___________________________________________________________ Douglas Wood, M.D. Chair, Division of Health Care Policy and Research, Mayo Clinic, Minnesota Very involved in national and state legislation issues related to health care reform Chair, Medical Practice and Planning Committee, Minnesota Medical Association, … Continue reading →

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Difficult Business Decisions on Medicare, Medicaid at Mayo

October 13th, 2009 - 4:24 pm

At Mayo Clinic, we take pride in delivering efficient, high quality care to each individual patient.  As an organization that has focused on the patient’s needs for over 100 years, the decisions that Mayo made last week to op-out of … Continue reading →

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Mayo Clinic Wins World Technology Network Award

July 22nd, 2009 - 4:49 pm

Mayo Clinic was honored with a World Technology Network award in the Health & Medicine category on July 16, 2009 in New York City during the World Technology Network Summit and Awards Gala for Mayo’s magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) technology. … Continue reading →

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