Laura’s digital disruptors: virtual realit-knee
Digital Health News reporter Laura Stevens goes to Bournemouth to try her hand at (virtual reality) surgery. She learns she shouldn’t give up the day job; but those people who are cut out to be surgeons may well train this way in future.
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NHS Highland develops smart glasses tech
NHS Highland is working with an Inverness-based technology company to develop the use of smart glasses in health care.
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London surgery broadcast via virtual reality tech
An operation performed tomorrow (14 April) at a London hospital on a patient with colon cancer will be the first in the world to be broadcast live through virtual reality technology.
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Imperial creates patient surgery app
University researchers at Imperial College London have developed a mobile app to help patients prepare for surgery and reduce the risk of surgical complications.
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Robot helps Sheffield surgeons
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has bought a robot to help surgeons perform complex operations.
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Google Glass delivers patient data
A proof-of-concept that uses Google Glass to deliver patient data to doctors has been announced by Philips and Accenture.
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Surgeons to be ‘named and shamed’
Doctors who opt out of disclosing their performance data should be “named and shamed”, the health secretary has said.
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Cautious support for data publication
Doctors’ leaders have backed plans to publish outcome data for most surgeons in England; as long as the information is “meaningful” for patients.
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Surgical data reduces mortality
A study has revealed that since surgeons started publishing data on outcomes for people undergoing heart operations, mortality rates have dropped dramatically. The Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery studied 400,000 operations performed over the past five years, and found that death rates in coronary artery surgery fell by 21% and in aortic valve replacement operations by […]
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Second Life gets real
Imperial College London is doing ground-breaking work with the NHS in the virtual world, Second Life. Sarah Bruce reports.
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