Innovation, influence and business in America's medical cities.

Ohio’s Channel will include a segment focused on the business of health care through a partnership with MedCity News. The Tuesday segment will focus on innovation, influence and the business of health care.

MedCity News can use any coverage from MassDevice, a Boston-based online journal that covers the medical device industry. In addition, MassDevice can use any content generated by MedCity News, which follows innovation, influence and business in Minnesota and Ohio, as medical dealflow from the rest of the Midwest.

If you’ve appreciated some of the work MedCity News has done in the past year, could you give us a present? Namely: Fill out the MedCity News Reader’s Survey.

MedCity News has been writing about the medical industry in Minnesota for some time now. But today we start covering the community full time. Thomas Lee, a familiar name in business journalism in the Minneapolis-St. Paul, starts full time today as the MedCity News Service’s Minnesota Bureau Chief.

We’d like to hear from you and learn a little bit more about you so we can continue to make MedCity News better. To that end, we’ve posted a short survey that asks for some basic demographic information as well as some advice. We’d like to know the kind of stories you want to see on MedCity News and where you’d like to see us in your medical community.

It is the second syndication pact announced this week. Cleveland’s WKYC-TV has also agreed to become a syndication partner for MedCity News. “Adding WKYC and the Akron Beacon Journal demonstrate our value on air and in print as well as online,” MedCity News co-founder Chris Seper said. “We will continue to add syndication partners in new markets and plan to expand into new medical cities to replicate our fully-validated business model.”

MedCity News and WKYC-TV are partnering to provide comprehensive media coverage of the business of health care in Cleveland. This partnership provides that WKYC, a long-time leader in broadcast consumer health news, and MedCity News, a next-generation medical industry news service, will join forces and share content both online and on-air.

For MedCity News regulars in the Columbus area — and, in particular, those who follow us on the microblogging service Twitter — we have an event just for you. MedCity News Ice Cream TweetUp will be at 4:30 p.m. Thursday at Graeter’s in Dublin.

MedCity News on Thursday was awarded a grant from the Innovation Fund of the Lorain County Community College Foundation that’s meant for nascent businesses to build out technology to improve their businesses and lead to job growth.

Thanks to the more than 100 people who came to take part in the First Annual MedCity Cornhole Tournament. In a final we couldn’t have scripted, the Cleveland Clinic Innovations team defeated the University Hospitals duo in a competitive and friendly final match.