Innovators who have built companies with their bare hands, battled years of red tape to bring game-changing products to market, and institutions that continue to change the way healthcare is commercialized and managed made up the inaugural class Thursday of The Cities, MedCity Media’s awards honoring medical excellence in the life sciences.A. Malachi Mixon, the [...]

Health IT company Explorys has been selected as Startup of the Year in MedCity Media’s first annual “The Cities” awards honoring the best, brightest and most innovative in Cleveland’s healthcare scene. The Startup of the Year award recognizes a young medical company with a unique solution that has shown through a major accomplishment its high-impact [...]

A. Malachi Mixon III – known to most as Mal — is one of the Cleveland healthcare industry’s entrepreneurial successes. But that’s just one of the reasons why he is MedCity Media’s first recipient of “The Cities” Medical Mayor award, which recognizes his insight, vision and contributions to healthcare. “The Cities” awards honor the best, [...]

What started out as a whim by a couple of software engineers led to a big breakthrough for MIM Software.In early 2008, MIM’s developers began hammering out the initial lines of code to what three years later became the first-ever medical imaging mobile app to be cleared for sale by the U.S. Food and Drug [...]

It’s hard to talk about the impact of Cleveland on the healthcare industry and vice versa without mentioning the institution that employs more than 39,000 northeast Ohioans and is consistently ranked as one of the country’s Top 5 hospitals. Its technology commercialization arm, which focuses solely on fostering innovation, is MedCity Media’s pick for The [...]

Pharmaceutical testing company ChanTest has achieved several “firsts” in its 13 years, most related to the company’s drug discovery work with electricity-producing proteins called ion channels.Add another: The Cleveland-area company has been chosen as the first recipient of MedCity Media’s”The Cities” Healthcare Ally award, given to a service provider that has demonstrated extraordinary service to [...]

Last year it all came crumbling down around the healthcare architecture firm Perspectus. One point away from victory in the 2010 MedCityNews.com Medical Cornhole Tournament, they lost to eventual champions Medical Mutual.But there are no Buffalo Bills in healthcare cornhole. Perspectus returned to the finals again and this time won the 2011 version of the [...]

Mark Twain’s quip that “news of my death was an exaggeration” sums up my reaction to the article on MetroHealth: “Healthcare reform’s impact: Farewell to public hospitals like MetroHealth.” The speculation that it’s all over for MetroHealth is wrong for three reasons.First, MetroHealth’s Board and management team have demonstrated an ability to manage the [...]

In the stockapocalypse that was Manic Monday, medical technology and pharma stocks got a mere slap on the wrist compared with banking stocks that received a more humiliating pants-down whipping.It appears that pharma stocks fared better than medical device and biotech stocks. GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE:GSK) was down a mere 28 cents to close at $39.44 on [...]

The future of public hospitals throughout the United States is imperiled, and for a preview on the impact of U.S. healthcare reform on hospitals, look no further than Cleveland’s public safety-net hospital, MetroHealth System.Faced with a raft of financial pressures and unfavorable trends, MetroHealth will likely have no choice but to essentially be swallowed up [...]