Cleveland Clinic
Five of the ten medical innovations that the Cleveland Clinic—an academic medical research center and hospital in Ohio—predicts are slated to most dramatically improve health care in the coming year. The Clinic polled more than 100 top doctors, including several in each speciality, to name the top new innovations they expected to impact care in their field within the next year.
As it does every year, a committee narrowed down about 70 suggestions to the top ten most powerful, and here are just five:
MOBILE STROKE UNIT
When a person has a stroke, every second counts — a few minutes can mean the difference between saving millions of a patient's brain cells. Today, a patient loses critical time while in transport to the hospital. But very soon, with new high-tech ambulances equipped with a …show more content…
The first vaccine for the virus, under development for 20 years, showed very promising test results in human clinical trials this year and is expected to be submitted for regulatory approval in 2015. The Cleveland Clinic is betting that by the end of the year, we’ll see the vaccine in doctor’s hands.
PAINLESS BLOOD TESTING
"Have the days of needles and vials come to an end?," the clinic asks. Emerging chip technologies for blood tests only require a tiny drop of blood from the fingertip to conduct multiple tests at once. The results would be available within hours and cost as little as 10% of typical Medical reimbursement costs.
LEADLESS CARDIAC PACEMAKERS
Today’s pacemakers require a thin wire—called a lead—to be inserted in a vein of the heart to keep it beating steadily. These leads, however, can crack and break or become infected. Soon, doctors may be able to implant wireless pacemakers directly in the heart without surgery and without the leads that cause a risk to patients.
TREATMENTS FOR IDIOPATHIC PULMONARY
As it does every year, a committee narrowed down about 70 suggestions to the top ten most powerful, and here are just five:
MOBILE STROKE UNIT
When a person has a stroke, every second counts — a few minutes can mean the difference between saving millions of a patient's brain cells. Today, a patient loses critical time while in transport to the hospital. But very soon, with new high-tech ambulances equipped with a …show more content…
The first vaccine for the virus, under development for 20 years, showed very promising test results in human clinical trials this year and is expected to be submitted for regulatory approval in 2015. The Cleveland Clinic is betting that by the end of the year, we’ll see the vaccine in doctor’s hands.
PAINLESS BLOOD TESTING
"Have the days of needles and vials come to an end?," the clinic asks. Emerging chip technologies for blood tests only require a tiny drop of blood from the fingertip to conduct multiple tests at once. The results would be available within hours and cost as little as 10% of typical Medical reimbursement costs.
LEADLESS CARDIAC PACEMAKERS
Today’s pacemakers require a thin wire—called a lead—to be inserted in a vein of the heart to keep it beating steadily. These leads, however, can crack and break or become infected. Soon, doctors may be able to implant wireless pacemakers directly in the heart without surgery and without the leads that cause a risk to patients.
TREATMENTS FOR IDIOPATHIC PULMONARY