The Cleveland Clinic, one of the country's most prominent medical research centers, and MedStar Health, the largest health-care provider in Maryland and the Washington region, will collaborate to bring medical inventions to market, according to a plan to be announced Tuesday.

The alliance, which will affect technologies developed by thousands of scientists and doctors, will be the first of its kind between two large U.S. health systems, executives said. The collaboration is a response to growing pressures on health-care institutions to cut costs while finding innovative ways to improve patient health and care delivery, they said.

This app was primarily developed to share outside Cleveland Clinic what our clinical leaders are saying to each other and what innovations they feel will help shape health care over the next 12 months and over the previous years

Additionally, the Cleveland Clinic Innovations App supplies the user with up-to-date information and real-time access to the many spin-off companies that were born of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation's commitment to transforming promising therapies, breakthrough devices and game-changing diagnostics into products that make the world a better, healthier place. download in iTunes

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