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Hospitals are Hotbeds of New Medical Innovation

Cleveland Clinic Spotlighted in Article for Inventing, Commercializing Health Technologies

An article in Business Insider notes how some leading hospitals are encouraging their greatest resources — physicians, nurses and other healthcare personnel — to use their knowledge, training and experience to become medical innovators. As Chris Coburn, director of Cleveland Clinic Innovations, notes in the article, highly-educated healthcare professionals who perform the same procedures and tasks repeatedly are going to envisions ways of performing those procedures in a better way, achieving improved outcomes for patients. Cleveland Clinic is among the hospitals working with these professionals to commercialize such ideas so they can benefit the U.S. healthcare system as a whole.