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The paint on the walls at Metro- Mr. Selden, whose hospital Health’s new $23 million health boasts a leading 42.5% market center in Middleburg Heights has share in the area 20 miles south- barely dried, but that hasn’t west of Cleveland, went on to say stopped Southwest General MetroHealth would have been Health Center — the dominant better served by investing the $23 health care force in southwestern million it spent in Middleburg Cuyahoga County — from taking Heights into its aging campus on digs at its newest competitor. West 25th Street in Cleveland. Make that its unrepentant, “I’m irritated by the fact that this newest competitor. country’s cost of health care is be- In an interview last week with ing driven by overbuilding and con- Crain’s, Southwest CEO Thomas struction,” Mr. Selden said. “This SAM DOSHI Selden blasted MetroHealth for is not McDonald’s versus Burger opening a health center roughly King, where you have McDonald’s The design of Japan’s so-called “bullet” train emulates the beak of the kingfisher, a bird that can dive into water without two miles southeast of his hospi- on one corner, then Burger King making a splash. The design allows the train to travel faster, use less energy and make less noise. tal and chided the health system See HEALTH Page 6 Great Lakes Biomimicry pushes companies and schools to embrace ideas inspired by plants, animals Diebold’s next-gen ATM By CHUCK SODER world is full of ideas worth copying. targets mobile millennials [email protected] Now those parties are taking steps to support Great Lakes Biomimicry By RACHEL ABBEY McCAFFERTY Inc., is in response to changing om Tyrrell has had little [email protected] consumer wants as the tech-savvy trouble recruiting people and its mission: To make sure that millennial generation becomes people all over Northeast Ohio — When Devon Watson describes more of a market force and more to start stealing all those the automated teller machine of people worldwide embrace the be they researchers, business exec- unpatented ideas Mother the future, it’s not a clunky gray use of mobile devices. TNature has been creating for the utives or students — take cues from terminal that sucks in a card and And it is obvious Diebold in- the most prolific inventor in history. spits out money. It’s an electronic tends to be a driver of such past few billion years. financial hub that lets customers change. Mr. Tyrrell and the rest of his team So much so that biomimicry take banking into their own Last week, Diebold announced becomes part of Northeast Ohio’s hands, literally, by interacting a partnership with Paydiant Inc., at Great Lakes Biomimicry have with their smart phones and creator of cloud-based mobile culture. convinced local corporations, foun- tablets. wallet and payment technology, dations and colleges that the natural See BIOMIMICRY Page 9 That shift in the sophistication that will let customers use their and function of the ATM smart phones instead of credit or described by Mr. Watson, senior debit cards to withdraw money director of software product man- from their ATMs. agement at ATM maker Diebold See DIEBOLD Page 7 29 CRAIN’S SPECIAL REPORT 7 What will Cleveland look like in the future? FLATS FORWARD This section examines how the city fits into the regional discussion and the importance of maintaining a strong urban core. 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