Chalk one up for interoperability – hands-on interoperability. It is one of many gains HIMSS President and CEO H. Stephen Lieber envisions with the opening of the HIMSS Innovation Center in Cleveland, slated for October.

Between the innovation center itself and its accompanying exhibition floor, the complex will occupy a total of 25,000 square feet on the fourth level – the entire top floor – of the Global Center for Health Innovation, which will house other big-name healthcare leaders and charter tenants, among them Cleveland Clinic, GE Healthcare, Johnson Controls, University Hospitals and Philips Healthcare. HIMSS has plans to double the size of the exhibition space by 2016.

Cleveland Clinic’s 11th Annual Medical Innovation Summit, one of the premier healthcare gatherings in the United States, will be held at the Cleveland Medical Mart & Convention Center, Oct. 14 to 16, 2013, marking the grand opening of downtown Cleveland’s newest medical showplace.

Philips Healthcare, a major maker of medical equipment, will partner with University Hospitals to showcase the latest imaging technology at Cuyahoga County's medical mart. The announcement today marks the signing of the fourth and fifth paying tenants at the downtown mart, part of a $465 million, taxpayer-financed convention center complex. It's the first announced collaboration between a health care system and a manufacturer.

Johnson Controls, the global leader in building efficiency, will anchor Cleveland Medical Mart’s Clinical Spaces third floor, highlighting how integrated technologies impact the patient care experience and reduce operational and energy costs.

With much fanfare, Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald today announced that the Cleveland Clinic and GE Healthcare will be participating as tenants in the under-construction medical mart in downtown Cleveland. The announcement was made during the last day of the Cleveland Clinic Innovation Summit at the Hotel InterContinental on the Cleveland Clinic main campus. The summit brought more than 1,000 physicians, medical company executives and entrepreneurs from across the country to Cleveland.

GE Healthcare Systems today became the first major health care company to publicly commit to Cuyahoga County's medical mart. The company announced it will showcase products related to breast cancer, Alzheimer's disease and heart disease in an interactive display. The Cleveland Clinic today also announced it has signed on to the $465 million, taxpayer-financed project, which includes a convention center beneath the downtown mall.
 

Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald made a long-awaited announcement Wednesday afternoon, naming the first two "big-name" tenants for the Medical Mart. GE Healthcare and the Cleveland Clinic will be cornerstone players in the project. The big names add credibility to the showcase for medical products and technology set to open next year in tandem with the Cleveland Convention Center.

Cleveland Medical Mart & Convention Center released a four-minute promotional video earlier today, including an extensive virtual tour of the themed spaces within the Medical Mart floors. The promotional video also contains interview segments with Jim Bennett, MMPI senior vice president, a 3D rendering of the new facility, and up-to-date construction site footage.

The video is available on YouTube at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBwN8Miwks0&feature=plcp