Like the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and the Cleveland Clinic, the Mayo Clinic is a provider that has a history of developing new medical technologies and bringing them to market. But now, instead of licensing new innovations to outside companies, the hospital is using outsourcing strategies in a bid to retain greater control in some cases. BusinessWeek looks at the example of Mayo Clinic MRI coils, a technology for capturing images of the arm and wrist that the hospital developed with the help of IBM.
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