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2017 marked the fifth anniversary of the Mayo Clinic app—hailed by tech specialists and consumers alike as “what every patient app should be.” But Mayo’s leadership in telephone communications dates back much further.

The successful launch of Epic at the Mayo Clinic Health System sites in Wisconsin in 2017 recalls another milestone 110 years ago. On July 19, 1907, patient No. 1 registered in the new system designed by Henry Plummer, M.D., in collaboration with Mabel Root and other colleagues.

The Southern Minnesota Regional Medical Examiner’s Office, within Mayo Clinic's Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology’s Division of Anatomic Pathology, plays an integral part in the tissue-donation process.

Joseph Blommel, Clinical Genome Sequencing Laboratory Development Technologist, received the 2017 Technologist Poster Award at the Association for Molecular Pathology Annual Meeting.

This year's Heritage Film, "Dinner at Mayowood: Enduring Values in Changing Times," is set in 1940, which administrator Harry Harwick called "the year of greatest crisis" for Mayo Clinic.

Life with an inherited disease sometimes brings unexpected twists and turns. Learn how five-year-old Gus Erickson has navigated the gyrations with the help of Mayo Clinic’s Neurofibromatosis Clinic.

High-sensitivity cardiac troponin levels are strongly associated with the risk for incident heart failure. Allan Jaffe, M.D., Consultant and Chair of Mayo Clinic’s Division of Clinical Core Laboratory Services, with a joint appointment in the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, weighs in on the topic.

Robin Patel, M.D., has been elected President of the American Society for Microbiology. Dr. Patel will serve as President Elect beginning in June 2018, followed by her presidency role from July 2019 to July 2020.

Linnea Baudhuin, Ph.D., Co-Director of the Personalized Genomics Laboratory at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, discusses targeted next-generation sequencing or exome in CAP Today.

The Mayo brothers were world travelers, but one of their favorite destinations was the American West — particularly Arizona.

Sharon Zehe, Vice President of Business Affairs for Mayo Medical Laboratories (MML), recently sat down with American Healthcare Leader to discuss her role. Zehe oversees MML’s business growth around the world and stays abreast of trailblazing technology in the laboratory medicine industry.

The All of Us precision medicine initiative aims to recruit a million Americans to sign up for a program that will not only gather all sorts of medical data about them but will also follow them for at least a decade, possibly much longer.

Lyle Lieder's first visit to Mayowood was in the 1940s, as a guest of Dr. Charlie's grandsons. His love of cars brought him back to the historic home in 2017.