Modern Healthcare, a leader in healthcare business news, research, and data has created a poll to select the five top milestones in several categories. What is your opinion?
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Healthcare Delivery
- Advanced directives or living wills
- Accountable Care Organizations
- Patient-centered medical homes
- Telemedicine
- FDA approves direct to consumer advertising
- In-vitro fertilization
- Small pox eradicated
- United network for Organ Sharing
- Creation of the Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions
- The growth of nurse practitioners
- Ebola arrives in the U.S.
- Percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI_)
- The birth of DRGs
- The orthopedics revolution
- First AIDS case identified
- Other healthcare delivery
Science & Technology
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- The HIV/AIDS triple cocktail, 1996
- Cohen-Boyer patent
- Sequencing of the human genome
- Framingham heart study
- Coronary stents
- Implantable defibrillators
- Implantable aortic valves
- Artificial hearts
- Static drugs
- Genetically-targeted therapies
- Computed tomography (CT) scanning
- Biotechnology drugs
- Discovery of breast cancer genes
- Seat belts
- The morning after pill
- Electronic medical records
- Face transplants
- Health IT cyber attacks
- Dolly, the first cloned sheep
- Wearable fitness trackers
- Other in Science & Technology