Transformation has been the underlying theme of this year's Cleveland Clinic Medical Innovation Summit, beginning with the New Venture Healthcare Challenge on Monday (Medical Device Daily, Oct. 15, 2013) and continuing through former Sen. Tom Daschle's talk at dinner. Daschle told the roughly 1,500 Summit attendees that this country is on the brink of a historic transformation that, over the next decade, will change the healthcare landscape dramatically.

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