Category Archives: Innovation

CNET, Mayo to host Twitter chat on health apps

May 7th, 2013 - 1:18 pm

  Mayo Clinic and Scott Stein from CNET will be teaming up for a Twitter chat Wednesday, May 8 from 1-2 p.m. ET. to talk about health apps. Hashtag to follow: #healthapps Mobile software (apps) is designed to run on handheld computers, personal … Continue reading →

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Mayo hospitals among safest, according to Consumer Reports

April 2nd, 2013 - 7:43 pm

Teams across Mayo are embedding safe behaviors, participating in ongoing quality projects, improving system efficiency, standardizing best health care best practices and collaborating across disciplines to strengthen their safety cultures. And it’s working, according to a new report from Consumer … Continue reading →

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Florida Simulation Center Helps Medical Teams and Community

February 6th, 2013 - 2:17 pm

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Medical teams and community organizations can learn and practice medical skills in a safe, highly realistic environment with the opening of the Mayo Clinic J. Wayne and Delores Barr Weaver Simulation Center at Mayo Clinic in Florida. … Continue reading →

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Bill Weir, Nightline explore possibilities of stem cell research at Mayo Clinic

January 17th, 2013 - 11:45 am

  ABC Nightline report on stem cell research by Bill Weir, January 18, 2013. PROMO:  At 11:35 p.m. CT on Friday, Jan. 18 Mayo Clinic and the lab of Dr. Tim Nelson will be featured on ABC’s Nightline. The topic is … Continue reading →

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Mayo Clinic Expert Discusses “Just Right” Medicine at Institute for Healthcare Improvement Annual Meeting

December 11th, 2012 - 10:20 am

Victor Montori, M.D., Mayo Clinic Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, will give a special interest keynote at IHI’s annual meeting today, addressing minimally-disruptive medicine, a new patient-centered health care model designed around the patient’s life goals and … Continue reading →

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National Collaboration Identifies New Ways to Reduce Surgical Site Infections

November 28th, 2012 - 10:00 am

Mayo Clinic and six other U.S. health care systems avoided approximately 135 surgical site infections and saved more than $3.7 million dollars through an improvement project directed by the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare in collaboration with the American … Continue reading →

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Mayo Gets FDA Approval for New Imaging Agent for Recurrent Prostate Cancer

November 7th, 2012 - 3:18 pm

Evaluating men for prostate cancer recurrence has long been a major challenge; physicians have had to wait until a patient’s prostate-specific antigen, or PSA, levels rose to values between 20-30 ng/mL to identify sites of recurrent prostate cancer. Mayo Clinic … Continue reading →

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Diversion of Drugs Within Healthcare Facilities, a Multiple-Victim Crime

October 19th, 2012 - 2:23 pm

Above Keith Berge, M.D., an Anesthesiologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn, reviews an article that appeared in the July 2012 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings’ on the increasing occurrence and awareness of drug diversion within the medical community, which … Continue reading →

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Mayo Clinic Ranked as a Top-Performing Academic Medical Center

September 19th, 2012 - 8:40 am

Mayo Clinic has been identified as one of the nation’s best-performing academic medical centers by the University HealthSystem Consortium. The consortium created a quality and accountability study in 2005 to help academic medical centers improve health care quality and safety. For … Continue reading →

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Mayo Clinic debuts patient mobile application

May 15th, 2012 - 11:23 am

Mayo Clinic has created a comprehensive mobile health application; combining a custom mobile experience with unparalleled expertise and access. Empowering patients with information at their fingertips, this app sets a new standard for health care apps. The Mayo Clinic patient … Continue reading →

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