Stephen C. Schimpff, KevinMD
“Robotics has the potential to revolutionize the delivery of healthcare. It can help extend the delivery of information, expertise and clinical care across time and geographical space barriers. Robotics offers the opportunity to enhance quality of care through extension of clinical expertise and leveraging of integrated datasets and best practices.
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Mobile Aspects
“The surgical environment is an unique setting for patient care, drastically different from inpatient medical-surgical care settings and outpatient care settings. Important operational needs such as maximizing available time for procedure rooms, optimizing case turnaround times, and having the flexibility to accommodate scheduled and non-scheduled cases make this environment dynamic, exciting and at times, unpredictable.
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Steelman VM. American Journal of Surgery, 201(2)
BACKGROUND
A retained surgical sponge is a serious medical error that results in negative patient outcomes. Radiofrequency (RF) technology has recently been introduced to evaluate for the presence of a retained sponge. The aim of this study was to evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of the detection of surgical sponges embedded with an RF chip through the torsos of subjects of varying body habitus, including the morbidly obese.
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Rachel Fields, Becker's ASC Review
“Implementing an electronic health record can be a daunting task for an ambulatory surgery center, considering the capital needed to purchase hardware and software, train employees and account for productivity loss during implementation.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“Two surgeons from the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences are touting the benefits of social media to their colleagues as a way to disseminate accurate information to their trainees and patients.
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Nahai F. Aesthetic Surgery Journal, 31(4)
There’s something that a lot of us have been avoiding—something we may not be able to avoid much longer, and that’s actually good. I’m talking about converting to electronic medical records (EMR). Plastic surgeons, like other specialists, are going to have to get their arms around this new way of managing patient data—because, let’s face it, switching to EMR is the right thing to do for both our patients and our practices—yet it seems that many of us would rather avoid the change altogether.
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Ken Terry, FierceHealthIT
“Virtual reality is big business in healthcare. The market for products that rely on virtual reality (VR)–including robot-assisted surgery, medical data visualization, education and training, and rehabilitation and therapy–was worth $670 million in 2010, according to a Kalorama Information report.
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Hasvold PE et al, International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2011
Purpose
This study presents a study of mobile information and communication technology (ICT) for healthcare professionals in a surgical ward. The purpose of the study was to create a participatory design process to investigate factors that affect the acceptance of mobile ICT in a surgical ward.
Methods
Observations, interviews, a participatory design process, and pilot testing of a prototype of a co-constructed application were used.
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Alison Diana, InformationWeek
“Robots play a critical — and growing — role in modern medicine, from training the next generation of doctors, dentists, and nurses, to comforting and protecting elderly patients in the early stages of dementia. Using robots, medical professionals can make smaller incisions for shorter surgeries, reducing hospital stays and improving patients’ prognoses and saving costs. As robots become even smaller and developers continue to further integrate the devices with artificial intelligence, the medical community will continuously expand the ways in which it uses this technology to save patients, improve quality of life and prevent health problems.
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Cathy Thomas, Medicine and Technology
“The terms “robotics” and “artificial intelligence” have been bandied about for quite some time now, and we’ve seen the advances that have been made in robotics technology and applied successfully in various industries. The world of medicine however, was lagging behind – when lives are at stake, perhaps human intuition was considered superior to robotic efficiency.
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John Halamka, Life as a Healthcare CIO
“An unstated source of difficulty with surgeons is that the EHR illustrates a relative light document style with less of a focus on continuity of care that is typical of most high volume ambulatory surgical practices. EHRs require them to increase their level of documentation and attention to process generally, in addition to converting to an electronic workflow.
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Lisa Gualtieri, KevinMD
“Diana Cole told me, “The internet saved my life,” and recounted a story about using the internet to identify a bat bite and learn about rabies in bats, leading to an emergency room trip.
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“Telementoring may be an effective way for subspecialist surgeons to assist remotely located general surgeons in the care of patients in need of emergency subspecialty surgical procedures, according to new research findings published in the September issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.
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Ereso AQ et al, Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 211(3)
Background
Certain clinical environments, including military field hospitals or rural medical centers, lack readily available surgical subspecialists. We hypothesized that telementoring by a surgical subspecialist using a robotic platform is feasible and can convey subspecialty knowledge and skill to a remotely located general surgeon.
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Aziz SR, Ziccardi VB. Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, 67(11)
Telemedicine is the specialty of medicine that uses the evolving telecommunications industry combined with medical information technology to provide remote medical services. The use of smartphone telemedicine is an efficient and effective way for remote specialist consultation and should be considered by the oral and maxillofacial surgeon.
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Rosalía Sierra, Diario Médico
“Ver un cerebro gigantesco desde dentro y en tres dimensiones, tratar el vértigo y la claustrofobia, planificar al milímetro una intervención quirúrgica y reconstruir todos los posibles rostros de una persona a partir de su cráneo son sólo algunas de las aplicaciones que la realidad virtual ha aportado al campo de la medicina, tanto en la clínica como en la docencia y la investigación.
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Corbal GI et al, Medical and Care Compunetics 6, 2010
The A Coruña University Hospital Complex is developing an expert system to improve the decision support for transplanted patients. The system will access the data collected during the monitoring of patients and generate a database of statistics that will aid health professionals in several stages of the transplant process.
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iSMOblog
“Changing with the current world full of Twitter updates and Facebook status messages, the field of medicine has also plunged into the ever growing world of social media. Social media has now been in and around for some years, and has created quite a rage. People from all age brackets, belonging to a varied amount of sections in the society are active on the assortment that the social media websites provide.
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Yao W et al, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 2010
RFID technology has been examined in healthcare to support a variety of applications such as patient identification and monitoring, asset tracking and patient-drug compliance. However, managing the large volume of RFID data and understanding them in the medical context present new challenges. One effective solution for dealing with these challenges is Complex Event Processing (CEP), which can extract meaningful events for context-awareness applications.
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KevinMD.com
“Twitter has been making its way into the operating room.
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