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In tonight’s In Focus, the Cleveland Clinic’s Medical Director of Employee Health Dr. Paul Terpeluk is here to talk about theClinic’s new “Healthy Choice” program.Terpeluk discusses who qualifies, how the program works and where the idea for the “Healthy Choice” program came from.Is thisgoing to be the new trend in health insurance?

BioEnterprise Inc., the bioscienceventure developer in Northeast Ohio, has formalized a partnership with Team NEO to woo new medical imaging, neurostimulation, cardiovascular device and orthopedic companies to the region.Both nonprofits work in Northeast Ohio andsometimes theybump against each otheror duplicateefforts,said Annette Ballou,director of strategic marketing and communications for BioEnterprise. So the two organizationsdeveloped a strategicplan [...]

University Hospitals has received a $1.5 million donation that the health system will use to establish an endowed chair within its heart and vacular institute.Dr. Barry Effron, associate chief of the division of cardiovascular medicine at University Hospitals Case Medical Center, becomes the first holder of the Figgie Family Chair for Clinical Cardiovascular Excellence, which [...]

Updated 4:24 p.m.Cleveland Clinic spinoff Cleveland HeartLab has completed a $3 million fundraising round, and named its executives and advisers.Investors in the round included Glengary LLC, Second Generation Ltd. and Zapis Capital Group LLC, all in Northeast Ohio, according to a company release.Cleveland HeartLab is a clinical reference laboratory specializing in next-generation cardiovascular disease prevention, [...]

Updated 3:27 p.m.CLEVELAND, Ohio — The use of at-home medical devices to connect doctors and patients via the Internet can help both groups more efficiently manage chronic conditions, such as diabetes, high blood pressure and heart failure, according to research at the Cleveland Clinic.In December 2008, the Clinic partnered with Microsoft Corp. in a pilot [...]

The Joan C. Edwards Charitable Foundation will invest an initial $10 million to $12 million over a decade to create a medical education pipeline in Cleveland and prime it withminority and low-income students from John Hay High School.The program has the potential to educate 98 doctors over the next 60 years through a potential total [...]

The Cleveland Clinic plans to spend a whopping $848 million on renovations and construction of its health system this year, in addition to looking for more ways to expand nationally and internationally, Dr. Delos “Toby” Cosgrove, the Clinic’s president and chief executive, said during his State of the Clinic speech Thursday morning. The spending plans come at a time when the Clinic is beginning to feel the effects of the recession.

MetroHealth System trustees on Wednesday approved spending nearly $26 million on new medical equipment, refurbishing public spaces like waiting rooms and patient units, building information technology infrastructure and setting up a fund to use during facilities emergencies.

The Nashville Medical Trade Center has its first tenant, though it’s not a health products or technology company.It’s Lipscomb University, a Christian liberal arts college that was once known as Nashville Bible School. Lipscomb has signed a memorandum of understanding with the medical mart’s developer to create the National Center for Health Care Education and [...]

Gov. Ted Strickland and Ohio Board of Regents Chancellor Eric Fingerhut donned their high-tech marketing hats Friday, touting the state’s leadership in biomedical and health care innovation by announcing centers of excellence at 14 universities.