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2011 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Image-Guided Surgery and Its Adoption
verfasst von : Michael Meehan
Erschienen in: Advanced Computational Intelligence Paradigms in Healthcare 5
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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The past few decades have seen incredible development of technology and systems for image-assisted surgery. Adoption of image-assisted surgical systems by medical practitioners, however, has lagged considerably behind the advances in technology. Whereas this lag in adoption is not an unknown phenomenon when it comes to technological advancement, it is more troubling in the context of patient safety and patient health. With the use of certain image-assisted surgical systems, operative time can be greatly reduced, patients outcomes can be improved, and morbidity and mortality rates can be reduced. The question is then: why aren’t the systems being adopted? This chapter discusses a number of issues related to the adoption of surgical trainers and image assisted surgery, including business and reimbursement issues, training issues, and health care liability structures. Examples are taken form the author’s own unadopted advances as well as adopted and unadopted systems from other research and business teams.