Robotic Surgery Sitting at a console, a surgeon places their hands on control sticks, translating their movement through a set of robotic arms that are able to make more delicate movements than human hands, with more dexterity than human wrists. Minimally invasive surgery becomes increasingly precise by becoming robotic. Robotic surgery is an advance on laparoscopic
Surgeon Workflow Innovation Surgery EMRs are a key driver of innovation in surgery. By implementing health IT best practices, surgeons have been reducing medical record errors, improving care team communication, and more effectively measuring medical outcomes. But surgery innovation also hinges on a factor that can not be measured so quantitatively: surgeons’ confidence that an innovation
Dictated Operative Reporting For years, dictation and transcription have comprised the standard workflow for producing operative reports. But now, as quality assurance initiatives focus on medical reporting methods, clinical research is finding that dictated operative reporting is no longer on the cutting edge. We’ll look closely at one study that found dictated reports to include
Accurate operative reports are critical to care teams. Family doctors need surgical reports to understand their patients’ long-term outcomes. And population-level programs need consistently complete information to develop and assess quality assurance initiatives. Within the operating room, surgical reporting best practices are central to limiting post-operative complications and preventing operative report errors. A new wave of research is
Surgical reports are fundamental to cancer treatment and care, providing important diagnostic and prognostic data for care teams and their patients. In aggregate, surgical reports continuously advance the cancer care process through improved understandings of treatment methods and patient outcomes. Synoptic Reporting for Surgeons As surgical procedures become more sophisticated, there is a corresponding growth
