Top 10 Lists on 2009 Healthcare Innovations

What’s a better way to review the past year than with a Top 10 list?  How about two Top 10 lists?

Both Time and CNN have their versions:

Time’s Top 10 Medical Breakthroughs

1. New Mammography Guidelines
2. AIDS Vaccine
3. Funding Ban Lifted on Stem-Cell Research
4. H1N1 Vaccine
5. Stem-Cell-Created Mice
6. Prostate-Cancer Screening
7. New Research on Autism
8. New Drug for Osteoporosis
9. New Alzheimer’s Genes
10. Brown Fat in Adults

Check CNN’s Top 10 after the break.
CNN’s Top 10 health innovations

1. Swine Flu Vaccine
2. Electric Eye
3. Lyric Hearing Aid
4. Wooden Bones
5. TMS Therapy
6. Anti-viral BioMask
7. Antimocrobial Paint
8. Electronic Stethoscope
9. JaipurKnee
10. Warm Organ Perfusion Device

The lists are strong in biotech, life science, pharma, and medical device.  Health policy changes made a couple of appearances.  It’s surprising that health information technology didn’t show up in one form or another, perhaps as the 3rd policy change.  What else did the lists get right or wrong?