Cleveland Clinic has taken the next logical step in healthcare: the virtual visit. You can see —and be seen by — a Cleveland Clinic healthcare provider at home, at work or on the beach. All you need is a computer or mobile device with an internet connection. Get a prescription or diagnosis. Sessions are 10 minutes.

You walk through the door. Nothing could be easier. Cleveland Clinic now has 21 Express Care clinics throughout Northeast Ohio. Express Care clinics offer treatment for common acute health problems, and reassurance and referrals as needed. Backed by the full resources of Cleveland Clinic.

The No. 1-ranked hospital in Miami-Ft. Lauderdale(U.S. News & World Report) is expanding to meet the growing demand for Cleveland Clinic services. Currently under construction is a 180,000-square-foot hospital tower with 75 additional beds, new operating rooms, critical care areas and 25 percent more Emergency Department space. A new Women’s Center, imaging capabilities parking and more are also planned. In Coral Springs, a new family health center and ambulatory surgery center will go up.

Cleveland Clinic is at the leading edge of sharing medical knowledge through Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms. We have more than 2 million Facebook fans — currently more than any other hospital in the country. Our award-winning website is one of the most-visited hospital websites in America, and Health Essentials is the most popular hospital blog on the internet. Our growing site for physicians, Consult QD, is a comprehensive source for the latest medical innovations, thought leadership and more.

The ultimate goal for Cleveland Clinic research? Find cures faster. Team science is the future. Turning scientific discoveries into better patient care happens faster when scientists, clinicians, engineers, mathematicians and others work together. Here at Lerner Research Institute, we’ve already started. Together with big data, our physicians are learning how to treat each person uniquely — not like everybody else. That’s precision medicine.

Cellular therapies are on the brink of revolutionizing treatment for cancer and other challenging diseases, but scientists need precise and accurate devices for sampling, transferring or deleting specific cells and colonies. Cleveland Clinic researchers led by George Muschler, MD, of the Lerner Research Institute, have helped develop a new robotic device that scans and identifies cells or clusters of cells of interest and locates them in 3-D space. It can position cells for selective biopsy, removal or transplant. It will advance patient care through better diagnostics and targeted therapeutics.

Ten patients have received liver transplants to date as part of a “first-in-human” trial using ex vivo normothermic machine perfusion. These are the first instances in the world that livers have been preserved at physiologic temperature using a noncommercial device. John Etterling, of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, was instrumental in developing the device and making it small, light and portable — key features for its successful use in the field. The technology could reduce and potentially even eliminate mortality on the waiting list.

Urologists in the Glickman Urological & Kidney Institute have developed a new test to detect prostate cancer. The test is called IsoPSA. Results from an ongoing multicenter clinical trial indicate that it can detect prostate cancer more precisely than current tests, by identifying molecular changes in the prostate specific antigen (PSA) protein. The study found that IsoPSA can also differentiate between high-risk and low-risk disease, as well as benign conditions. Eric Klein, MD, Chair of the Glickman Urological & Kidney Institute, is principal investigator of the trial.

Cleveland Clinic receives patients from around the world, and coordinates their visits through its Global Patient Services. In 2016, Cleveland Clinic saw more than 4,500 international patients. Nearly half of these were from the Middle East, and from the Caribbean, Canada, South America, Asia and Europe in almost equal proportion.

In 2016, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi saw more than 1,180 patients a day, from more than 60 countries. On any given day, there were more than 150 patients in the hospital. Some 250 staff physicians serve at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, supported by almost 3,000 caregivers.

Cleveland Clinic is expanding globally with a location at 33 Grosvenor Place, London, UK. The eight-story, 323,100-square-foot facility will have 205 beds and eight operating rooms. Scheduled to open in fall 2020, it will offer major medical specialties, CT, endoscopy suites, lab and pharmacy.