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.