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Google “Healthcare?”

April 7, 2015 | | Posted in Newsletter

Google Health Information
Enter “tonsillitis” into Google’s search line and up come several sites and a quick information box on the [MORE]

Mayo to Test Telehealth Kiosks

November 18, 2014 | | Posted in Newsletter

Telehealth Kiosks
The technology supporting stand-alone telehealth kiosks has existed for several years. Theoretically, they could be placed in hospital emergency [MORE]

Stalking the Competition

September 16, 2014 | | Posted in Newsletter

Healthcare Competiton
Carolinas vs Novant; Cerner vs Epic; Cleveland Clinic vs Mayo Clinic, et al—why it is worth knowing about these [MORE]

FDA Approved Stem Cell Therapy for Heart Disease

February 25, 2014 | | Posted in Newsletter

Heart Healing
The Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN) has received FDA approval to begin stem cell therapy for chronic advanced heart failure.  [MORE]

Clinical Genomics Today

December 17, 2013 | | Posted in Newsletter

For more than 20 years, scientific genomics has promised clinical advantages, and now those promises are proving true with such [MORE]

Mayo Clinic’s Wide Area Remote Monitoring

November 19, 2013 | | Posted in Newsletter

Enhanced Critical Care Monitoring
Mayo Clinic has created its “Enhanced Critical Care Program,” 24/7/365, for its sickest patients and the [MORE]

The “Better” eHealth Phone App

November 5, 2013 | | Posted in Newsletter

Thousands of health-monitoring smartphone apps exist, but is more chaff than wheat in the winnowing.  Mayo Clinic may have [MORE]

A Digital Health Accelerator

July 30, 2013 | | Posted in Newsletter

Healthcare-oriented investors in Spartanburg, SC are creating a digital health accelerator in a location called “The Iron Yard.”  Proponents [MORE]

Interpreting Genomic Sequences

March 19, 2013 | | Posted in Newsletter

With the latest generation of DNA sequencers, the so-called “$1,000 genome” is a reality, and the breadbox-sized machine that [MORE]

New Light on Pancreatic Cancer

July 3, 2012 | | Posted in Newsletter

Pancreatic Cancer
Gastrointestinal researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL have used an endoscope, fitted with a special light [MORE]

Mayo Begins Large Scale Sequencing

April 10, 2012 | | Posted in Newsletter

Genome Sequencing
DNA sequencing is a necessary, but not entirely sufficient step, toward personalized medicine.  Providers have to figure out how [MORE]

RFID for Specimen Tracking

April 26, 2011 | | Posted in Newsletter

Over the past four years, the Mayo Clinic’s Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology has worked out a series [MORE]

Insight on DNA Repair

March 15, 2011 | | Posted in Newsletter

Near the end of chromosome 9’s long arm, the SET oncogene plays several roles in cellular function, including apoptosis, [MORE]

Mayo Clinic’s Center for Social Media

October 12, 2010 | | Posted in Newsletter

Mayo Clinic began using social media five years ago, and now sees Twitter, YouTube and Facebook as a means [MORE]