Innovations Spotlight
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07/17/2019

O’Neill Testifies in Front of Senate Judiciary Committee

In early June in Washington, D.C., Cleveland Clinic Innovations (CCI) Executive Director Pete O’Neill testified in front of a Senate Judiciary Committee on the state of patent eligibility in America. One of 45 witnesses across three days of testimony, O’Neill spoke to Cleveland Clinic’s perspective on the importance of having confidence that an issued patent that follows guidance of the USPTO will not be invalidated based on court case-law. His testimony addressed Cleveland Clinic’s experience with patenting the diagnostic MPO test, which led to the creation of Cleveland HeartLab. Specifically, he spoke about cases before federal district courts whereby the court rulings resulted in losing the protection of the MPO patents.

07/11/2019

AI and the Evolving Nature of Drug Discovery

In turning molecules into medicines, most studies report success 1 out of 10 tries. Yet rapid discovery and development of safe, effective drugs is crucial to moving the needle in healthcare. With unlimited chemical combinations, discovering new candidate medicines is a lengthy, intricate process. Post discovery, drug development is also slow. Undoubtedly, medications require careful progression from bench to bedside to prevent oversight and harm in the ultimate consumers. But with the goal of breakthrough treatments for all conditions, trending HIT applications just might get equally safe medication to the hands of patients sooner.

07/01/2019

A Story of Sweat and Perseverance

Jill Byrne, RN, MSN, knows a thing or two about persistence. Since 2010, she has been working diligently – and doggedly – to bring her invention to life.

06/25/2019

Learn How Nontraditional Companies are Changing Healthcare at MIS2019

The pace of innovation in healthcare is accelerating, with words like “disruption” and “digital transformation” frequently used to describe changes happening in healthcare. Other industries are also experiencing rapid changes, and some companies in these other industries are looking to apply their new products and processes to healthcare, in disruptive ways. At MIS2019 will bring together innovation leaders from companies in other industries, to share how their companies prospered during their rapid innovation and how they are looking to grow their participation in healthcare.

06/25/2019

Murata and Cleveland Clinic Expand Relationship

Nearly two years ago, Cleveland Clinic Innovations and Murata Electronics, a Japanese manufacturer of electronic components, entered into a collaboration agreement to identify potential opportunities to jointly develop novel medical technologies. Last month, both organizations agreed to expand the relationship as Murata formally joined Cleveland Clinic’s Healthcare Innovation Alliance program.

06/24/2019

It's Time to Get AMP'D!

AMP’D Arena, at the 2019 Medical Innovation Summit, will feature 40 innovative startup companies that are leading the way in best-in-class healthcare technology poised to impact the way we care for patients, caregivers and the community everywhere.

06/19/2019

Top 10 Update: 3D Printing

Like many scientific innovations, 3D printing technology is ever growing. Just in the past few years, 3D printing technology has moved out of the engineering lab, and into the hands of healthcare providers. One of its newer applications, has been successfully used to create an exact replica of a patient's anatomy, allowing for a significant number of preoperative benefits. Such benefits are evident in the story of a 3D printed brain aneurysm replica that helped guide a complex surgical repair.

06/17/2019

Top 10 Update: Alternative Therapy for Pain

In 2017, the Department of Health & Human Services declared the opioid crisis a public health emergency. While the crisis, on the rise due to continued misuse of prescription painkillers, has impacted each region of the nation to differing extents, Ohio has suffered significantly – ranking as one of the top five states for opioid overdoses.

06/13/2019

Innovating and Iterating to Make Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection Easier

For Amit Bhatt, MD, 2018 was a good year – two of this endoscopist’s technologies were licensed to a major medical device manufacturer. These devices, the Dissecting Endocap and the Endoscopic Retraction Strip, are both used for Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection (ESD).

06/12/2019

True 3D Visualization Leads to New Reality for Surgery

A new era has begun in head-mounted display (HMDs) technology for augmented and virtual reality (AR and VR) fueled by giants such as Microsoft, Google, and Facebook. With this mega-trend, researchers Karl West, Director, MDS and Jeffrey Yanof, PhD, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Lerner Research Institute, recognized that this can help address unmet needs in minimally-invasive surgical visualization, not just gaming and education applications.