Recently, a study sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson and Henry Kaiser Foundation ranked the most important medical innovations of the past 25 years. 10 of the top 15 innovations were medical technologies. The study polled 225 general internists, selected by the governors of the 65 U.S. chapters of the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine (ACP-ASIM) and from a list of best physicians compiled by Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. in the category "primary care-internal medicine." The principal investigators of the research were Victor Fuchs of Stanford University and Harold Sox of Dartmouth. The entire study was published by Health Affairs in their September/October 2001 edition.

MedTech1.com will profile the medical technologies featured in this study in reverse order of importance, as determined by this study. The purpose of this series is to educate our users on the top medical technologies of the past 25 years as well as highlight the importance of medical technology in saving and improving patient's lives.

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