Cleveland Clinic docs pick Top 10 medical innovations for 2009

As part of the annual Medical Innovation Summit in Cleveland, Cleveland Clinic doctors have picked the top 10 affordable procedures and products that they think can have a measurable impact on patients in 2009 (Source: “Cleveland Clinic doctors pick Top 10 innovations in medicine,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, Nov. 12, 2008).

Among the items to make the list are a national health information exchange and new strategies for creating vaccines for the avian flu. The doctors’ No. 1 pick is a circulating tumor cell technology that can help doctors understand how a cancer is progressing and how to adjust treatments in patients who have repeat cancer.