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In prior Future of Health Care blog posts, we’ve discussed issues facing our health care system as we look to provide new solutions for better and safer patient care at reduced costs. Our conversations have centered on needed steps to make this happen such as mending our fragmented care system, [...]

Wyatt W. Decker, M.D., vice-president of Mayo Clinic, discusses his impressions of President Obama's State of the Union speech with Ted Simons, host of Arizona Horizon. Dr. Decker comments on how the Affordable Care Act represents insurance reform although it does not address key health care delivery issues such as [...]

John Noseworthy, M.D., President and CEO at Mayo Clinic, attended the State of the Union Address as a guest of U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar. The Star Tribune reports Dr. Noseworthy was pleased to hear that President Barack Obama called for restored research funding to further potential medical and technological discoveries. [...]

The future of health care calls upon the government, the medical profession, and patients to collaborate with one another to modernize the health care system. John Noseworthy, M.D., President and CEO of Mayo Clinic shares his insights in Modern Healthcare's Business News on how this collaboration will provide high-quality patient [...]

Mayo Clinic President and CEO, John Noseworthy, M.D., shares his perspectives on the future of health care and the implications of the Affordable Care Act with Fox Business during the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2014. Dr. Noseworthy explains the issues facing the health care system and highlights the following key areas that we need to address: [...]

Genomics and individualized medicine are the future of health care, and the future is now. The field of cancer research has seen great leaps forward in genomics and individualized medicine in recent years. With the availability of more comprehensive human genome data from sources such as the Cancer Genome Atlas, [...]

The future of health care hits the airwaves on Saturday, Jan. 18, as Mayo Clinic President and CEO John Noseworthy, M.D., and Wyatt W. Decker, M.D., Mayo Clinic vice-president, join the Mayo Clinic Radio show to discuss what lies ahead for Americans. What role does Mayo Clinic play in the future of [...]

The delivery of health care in the United States hasn’t changed much in over 100 years. The model created many years ago and still used today makes people travel to see a doctor on the doctor’s schedule, when appointments can be fit in, rather than having a doctor try to [...]

A new year is a time of hope and promise. As 2014 begins to unfold, I’d like to devote this post to the spirit of innovation as it relates to the future of health care. I was recently part of an Arizona Chamber of Commerce discussion with Dr. Michael Crow, [...]

Dr. John Noseworthy, President and CEO at Mayo Clinic, appeared on Meet the Press with David Gregory alongside with Dr. Toby Cosgrove, CEO of Cleveland Clinic, this past Sunday to discuss the impact of the Affordable Care Act and the future of health care in America. Key issues covered by [...]

On Sunday, I will participate in an interview on NBC's Meet the Press with David Gregory. I'll be on the show with my counterpart from Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Delos Cosgrove. We'll discuss the Affordable Care Act and look to its impact in the future of health care. Throughout the past year, [...]

As the end of 2013 draws near, we continue to look ahead towards the future of health care to improve the quality of patient care while reducing costs. Victor Montori, M.D., director of the Health Care Delivery Research Program at Mayo Clinic, and Stephen Swensen, M.D., share their insights in [...]

As Mayo Clinic looks into the future of health care, we ask ourselves: “What will it mean to deliver customized patient care in five, 10 or 25 years from now?” Personalized care tailored to a patient’s individual qualities is Mayo’s mission and passion. We’re driven to create value and deliver [...]

John Noseworthy, M.D., CEO at Mayo Clinic, recently interviewed in Twin Cities Business magazine, credited Mayo staff for finding creative solutions to improving quality for the future of health care. In this interview with Dale Kurschner, Editor in Chief, they also discussed: The impact of the Affordable Care Act. How Mayo plans [...]

Mayo Clinic believes the improvement of health care in our nation is tied closely to the ability to successfully create value, deliver knowledge and fund excellence. Our campus in Florida is playing an active role in this vision. In August, we launched the Individualized Medicine (IM) Clinic. The IM Clinic [...]

The future of health care is at the forefront of the World Stem Cell Summit in San Diego, December 4-6, as leaders from the Mayo Clinic Center for Regenerative Medicine along with over 1,200 attendees from more than 40 countries gather to explore disease updates, research directions, cell standardization, and regulatory pathways. [...]

The Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media (#MCCSM) is already preparing for next year’s Social Media Summit after proudly hosting this year’s event with more than 300 participants. In our keynote address, “Bringing the Social Media Revolution to Health Care," MCCSM director Lee Aase and I illustrated how social media will play [...]

Health care is undergoing profound change. It’s hard to go a day, let alone a few hours, without hearing the good, bad and ugly of that change. Still, many people have a hard time articulating how the change benefits patients, or how providers are changing to meet the demands of tomorrow. [...]

Last week, I participated in the annual meeting of the Wall Street Journal CEO Council, where task forces discussed issues and opportunities in many arenas in the U.S. — health care, energy, capitalism, competitiveness and cyber security. I was pleased to co-chair the health care innovation break-out group joining corporate [...]

Today Betty Liu, Bloomberg news anchor, interviewed John Noseworthy, M.D., CEO at Mayo Clinic. Topics discussed included: 1) changes the nation's health care system must undertake; 2) creating more efficiencies in health care delivery; and 3) payment reform. Dr. Noseworthy explained how the Affordable Care Act focuses on providing health [...]

Sara Murray, Wall Street Journal Live reporter, interviewed John Noseworthy, M.D., CEO at Mayo Clinic, during the Wall Street Journal CEO Council in Washington, D.C.  She asked Dr. Noseworthy how the Affordable Care Act will impact health care in the United States. He emphasized that the ACA is a step in [...]

John Noseworthy, M.D., CEO at Mayo Clinic, appeared yesterday on the Willis Report, Fox Business to discuss how our nation is spending too much on health care and creating an unsustainable situation. Apart from these expenditures, he explained that our current fragmented health care system creates uneven quality and inefficiencies. [...]

Mayo Clinic was honored this year to be included in Fortune magazine’s Leadership Series. In this article senior editor-at-large Geoff Colvin asked insightful questions about our institution and we talked about the concerns and opportunities we have in health care today. Geoff wrote: “When you run the world’s largest private [...]

Harrison was a 4-year-old little boy who had a brilliant smile, loved Superman and enjoyed eating plain spaghetti noodles. Unfortunately Harrison passed away last year from hypoplastic left heart syndrome, or HLHS.  Treatments are highly limited for this devastating disease and far too many children die from this condition world-wide. [...]

I recently had the opportunity to work with the editors of Harvard Business Review and New England Journal of Medicine to publish this perspective piece on their site "Leading Health Care Innovation," which incorporates content on the “big ideas” in health care, ideas for managing and implementing innovation, and examples from the front lines of the [...]