The AAFP added the Physician Well-being Index to its Physician Health First portal. The assessment, developed by Mayo Clinic, replaces the Maslach Burnout Inventory to help physicians focus on increasing professional satisfaction and fulfillment rather than on reducing burnout.

Artificial intelligence can simplify EHR use with tools such as voice recognition and automated reminder systems, easing the burden on providers, said Cris Ross, chief information officer at the Mayo Clinic. On a larger scale, AI will play a part in diagnoses through innovations such as radiogenomics and deep learning algorithms, Ross said at the Health 2.0 conference.

The Mayo Clinic's cyclotron facility in Jacksonville, Fla., has been approved by the FDA to manufacture nuclear medicine radiotracers, including F-18 FDG for cardiac, cancer and neurological imaging; F-18 NaF for skeletal metastatic disease imaging; C-11 choline for recurrent prostate cancer imaging; and N-13 ammonia for cardiac imaging. Production of future radiopharmaceuticals approved by the FDA can also be accommodated at the facility, according to the Mayo Clinic.

BioSig Technologies and Mayo Clinic have agreed to work together to develop new arrhythmia products for BioSig's PURE EP System, which improves characterization of cardiac tissue during ablation procedures. The companies did not disclose financial terms of the deal.