Cleveland Clinic has announced its list of Top 10 Medical Innovations that will have a major impact on improving patient care within the next year. The majority of the list is devices and tools for specific clinical purposes, such as a handheld optical scan for melanoma and 3D mammography, but bipartisan legislation crafted to reward better health also made the cut.

A web-based employee self-management program helped individuals with pre-hypertension or hypertension achieve significantly lower blood pressure, according to the results of a clinical trial conducted by the Center for Connected Health, affiliated with Partners HealthCare in Boston.

Many fewer physicians are practicing independently compared with a decade ago and those sticking to it are turning to new business models to maintain their independence, according to an Accenture survey.

BOSTON—Connected health will become the standard of care in the future, said the panelists of a session of connected health at scale on Oct. 26 at the ninth annual Connected Health Symposium.

An $800,000 study, proposed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, aims to find out how implementing health IT affects the workflow of practitioners in select small primary care clinics.

BOSTON—Providers aren’t always the best when it comes to giving patients clear instructions and that can discourage them from engaging with their health. Panelists of an Oct. 25 presentation at the 9th Annual Connected Health Symposium shared insight into ways providers can increase patient comprehension and motivation.

Cleveland Clinic and IBM are collaborating to advance the use of Watson in medical training. The IBM team of researchers that created Watson will work with Cleveland Clinic clinicians, faculty and medical students to enhance the capabilities of Watson’s Deep Question Answering technology for the area of medicine.

An increasing number of factors, including regulatory barriers and less return on investment, are thwarting efforts to bring new medical device technologies to the U.S. market. However, as medical innovation becomes less hardware oriented, new avenues present themselves.