Cardiovascular Technologies to be Highlighted at 5th Annual Cleveland Clinic Medical Innovation Summit, Oct. 1-3
Sept. 4, 2007, Cleveland: Cleveland Clinic will host its annual Medical Innovation Summit, an international gathering of health care, business and media leaders to examine trends in medical innovation and cardiovascular technologies, Oct. 1-3.

CCF Innovations finding structure
Invention process has experts involved sooner, minimizes burden on med device companies

Cleveland Clinic Summits to Focus on Cardiovascular Medical Innovation
Cleveland Clinic is hosting two upcoming Summits that will focus on medical innovation and emerging trends in cardiovascular medicine.

Live, From the Cleveland Clinic: Mitral-Valve Repair
Dr. Mihaljevic will repair a leaky mitral valve using a robotic device, going into the heart through a small incision on the right side of the chest. This type of surgery involves much less trauma to the patient than a traditional operation, in which the breast bone must be divided.

Knowing What We Know Health Care
It’s certainly a privilege for me to be a part of the Cleveland Clinic’s Medical Innovation Summit … and I’m very grateful to Dr. Cosgrove for the invitation to speak.

Spotlight again on cardio sector at Cleveland Clinic’s gathering
Bioheart(Sunrise, Florida), a company hoping to com- mercialize cell therapy for regeneration of the heart – a sector that so far has produced successes only in The 2007 edition of the always interest- ing Cleveland Clinic Medical Innovation Summit this week returns to a theme that the clinic excels at: cardiovascular medicine.

And now: Top 10 medical inventions
Clinic unveils marvels of '08 at summit

Cleveland Clinic Unveils "Top 10" Medical Innovations for 2008
Cleveland Clinic today announced its Top 10 Medical Innovations list, highlighting technologies which will likely have a big impact on healthcare in 2008.

Doctors cite flexible catheters as innovative
The Cleveland Clinic said on Wednesday a new generation of flexible catheters that allows surgeons to manipulate tiny instruments within the body will be the biggest medical innovation of 2008.

Panel: Innovation is lifeblood, not bane of healthcare in U.S.
New healthcare technologies generally cost more than older, standard technologies. That’s obvi- ous, and also an all-too-available scapegoat for those citing increased healthcare costs.

Waiting with bated breath
Riverside students among those who watch live open heart surgery at Cleveland Clinic

Clinic atrial fibrillation center’s heightened pulse credited to labs, leader
New leadership and new laboratories have helped the once-struggling Atrial Fibrillation Innovation Center in Cleveland attract nearly eight times more dollars for industry-sponsored research so far this year than it did during the like period last year.