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Optum, Mayo Clinic Partner to Launch Optum Labs: An Open, Collaborative Research and Innovation Facility Focused on Better Care for Patients

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., and ROCHESTER, Minn., Jan. 15, 2013 -- Optum and Mayo Clinic today jointly launched Optum Labs, an open, collaborative research and development facility with a singular goal: improving patient care. Based in Cambridge, [+]

Mayo Clinic Opens new experimental “non-competitive” facility for primary care

Mayo Clinic's newest facility is gathering some attention.  They have opened a "lab" for primary care experimentation in one of the largest malls in the world, the Mall of America, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  The internationally known [+]

Oh crap…. I got promoted again

I have received a couple hundred emails asking where I disappeared to in May.  I only posted up until 5 May and then fell off the electronic Earth.  Well, simply put my personal life had [+]

Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media launches Health Network Site

The Social Media Health Network is comprised of organizations committed to discovering ways social media tools can be harnessed to improve health care, promote health and fight disease. The network site is a [+]

Mayo Clinic Announces Proton Beam Therapy Program

Mayo Clinic announced plans to establish the Mayo Clinic Proton Beam Therapy Program as part of Mayo's national three-site cancer center in Minnesota, Arizona and Florida. The new program will employ intensity [+]

Mayo Clinic partners with Intel to study football player hits

Key to Intel’s efforts is a collaboration with Mayo Clinic. The non-profit hospital and research group based in Rochester, Minnesota, is helping Intel develop technology that can more rapidly crunch data from brain [+]

Pilot Study of Providing Online Care in a Primary Care Setting

PATIENTS AND METHODS: A pilot study of using the Internet for online care (“e-visits”) was conducted in the Department of Family Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. Patients in the department preregistered [+]

Health Connections #KSMQ Interview with Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media Director @LeeAase

On this episode of Health Connections host Shawn Riley interviews Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media Director Lee Aase.  Social Media is the most redefining tool of human communication since Gutenberg's printing press.  Mayo Clinic [+]

Mayo Clinic creates Center for Social Media

Mayo Clinic has announced the creation of a Center for Social Media to accelerate application of social media tools throughout Mayo Clinic and spur broader and deeper engagement in social media by hospitals, medical professionals [+]

It’s time to think differently about health care

I went to the Mayo Clinic Transform Symposium for the first time last year. I was very impressed with the high quality of speakers from all over the country. I learned more from [+]

Don’t miss Discovery Channel documentary on patient safety

Mayo Clinic participated in a four-part patient safety documentary, "Chasing Zero: Winning the War on Healthcare Harm," which will focus on ordinary changes in health care delivery. These changes bring about extraordinary improvements in quality [+]

Mayo Clinic Transform 2010, will you be there?

Each year we host an open forum - for anyone to submit their 3 to 5 minute pitch on an innovative idea they would talk about if given the time to present [+]

Mayo Clinic makes a $22 Billion dollar annual impact

The following was released by Mayo Clinic this week. ************* Today, we are announcing the results of a new Mayo Clinic economic impact study, which was conducted by the Battelle Technology Partnership Practice, an independent nonprofit research [+]

SISCOM, advanced imaging, at Mayo Clinic

Dr. Gregory Cascino, a Mayo Clinic neurologist and epileptologist, describes SISCOM an advanced imaging technology developed at Mayo Clinic. SISCOM precisely pinpoints seizure hot spots in patients with epilepsy, allowing specialists to determine the most [+]