Cleveland Clinics Top 10 Medical Innovations for 2012

7th October 2011

The Cleveland Clinic has published its top 10 medical innovations for 2012.

The list of breakthrough devices and therapies has been selected by a panel of Cleveland Clinic physicians and scientists. A book has been developed to share outside Cleveland Clinic what clinical leaders are saying to each other and what innovations they feel will help shape healthcare over the next 12 months.

A rigorous process is used to gather the opinions of Cleveland Clinic physicians and researchers, create a field of nominated innovative technologies for consideration, and develop a consensus perspective of what will be the Top 10 technologies for 2012. A team interviewed more than 95 Cleveland Clinic experts to elicit their nominations.

To receive consideration, nominated technologies had to meet the following criteria:

• The innovation had to have significant clinical impact and offer significant patient benefit in comparison to current practices. It must also have high user-related functionality that improves healthcare delivery.
• Nominated innovations had to have a high probability of commercial success.
• The innovation must be in or exiting clinical trials and be available on the market sometime in 2012.
• The innovation must have significant human interest in its application or benefits, and must have the ability to visualize human impact.

For details on the Top 10 technologies click here