CLEVELAND — Knee implants can be a tricky thing. On one hand, even though they can be done successfully – patients sometimes have significant concerns of how the implant feels. Last week, David Dvorak, Zimmer's (Warsaw, Indiana) CEO spoke to a crowded room at Cleveland Clinic's 2012 Medical Innovation Summit about this topic and several others during one of the final CEO one-on-ones of the conference.
If I had to sum up the key take away from Cleveland Clinic's Medical Innovation Summit last week, I would probably say something like this : Innovation is alive and well, but are hospitals and physicians willing to pay for it when capital is so strained? Nearly every panel that I attended seemed to have that as an underlying theme. Everyone from Cleveland Clinic's own Dr. Joseph Iannotti to Medtronic's CEO Omar Ishrak made statements about innovation in healthcare and the importance of having it present in an environment where capital is limited and dollars are few. Iannotti made...
CLEVELAND — There is no question that new imaging modalities have made a tremendous impact on current orthopedic procedures. During the closing day of Cleveland Clinic's 2012 Medical Innovation Summit, a panel talked about this impact as well as the integration of diagnostics and therapeutics in a session called New Imaging Modalities shaping Orthopedics.
