3 Things I Learned at MD & amp;M West on Day 1

1. The Ever-Evolving Digital Age Is Creating Super Surgeons Using his fellow panelist Christopher Macomber, MD, as an example, Kyle Miller, MD, explained how emerging technology like machine learning and automated performance metrics can create "super surgeons." But it's going to require acceptance by the surgeons. Miller is the senior global clinical marketing manager at Irvine, CA-based Intuitive Surgical, and Macomber is chair of robotic surgery at Minneapolis, MN-based Abbott Northwestern Hospital, part of Allina Health Surgical Specialists. "If you think about a user like Chris, and all of these surgeons that have grown up with electronics and they've grown up in the digital age, I think it's going to be a willingness to actually accept some of the augmentation and trust it, so we have to get that right. Being able to deliver him the right information at the right time and augmenting his capabilities, so it's almost like these super surgeons," Miller said. "If you think about some of the ways we can actually augment his capabilities, if you had machine learning whenever he's in a case helping him identify the structures in real time, giving him guide posts, giving him the safety lanes ... just like surgeons prior to Chris' generation had to be able to accept video-assisted laparoscopic surgery, robotic surgery, and now digital." 2. Think Self-Driving Cars, but with Surgical Robots Gianluca De Novi, PhD, CEO at C...
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