Key result
Emerging digital technologies promise to transform surgical care but demand equity, cybersecurity, and clinical validation.
Why the study?
Rapid advances in digital technology and artificial intelligence have begun to enter healthcare, offering tremendous potential to improve surgical care.
Digital technologies and artificial intelligence have tremendous potential to improve surgical care, though widespread adoption faces both opportunities and challenges.
Digital technologies may advance surgical care; leaves open need for rigorous validation before adoption.
Rapid advances in digital technology and artificial intelligence in recent years have already begun to transform many industries, and are beginning to make headway into healthcare. There is tremendous potential for new digital technologies to improve the care of surgical patients. In this piece, we highlight work being done to advance surgical care using machine learning, computer vision, wearable devices, remote patient monitoring, and virtual and augmented reality. We describe ways these technologies can be used to improve the practice of surgery, and discuss opportunities and challenges to their widespread adoption and use in operating rooms and at the bedside.
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Marwaha et al. (2023) conducted an editorial in Surgical care. Digital technologies (machine learning, computer vision, wearables, remote monitoring) was evaluated. Emerging digital technologies such as machine learning, computer vision, and remote patient monitoring have the potential to transform surgical care, though widespread adoption requires addressing equity, cybersecurity, and clinical validation.
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