CIS news

• Hospital websites don’t tell whole story on robot-assisted surgery--hands up those, who are surprised! References: 
• The commercialization of robotic surgery
  
  • Robotic surgery claims on United States hospital websites
  • SHSMD Advisory: Principles and Practices for Marketing Communications in Hospitals and Health Systems
  • Opinion 5.02 — Advertising and Publicity
  • Choosing the Route of Hysterectomy for Benign Disease
• Carnegie Melon's Snakebot is advancing
• If you want to see Sofar's system, come to the 5th International Meeting of NESA. In the mean while, Alf-X is starting human trials in September at three locations:
• University of Bergamo
• Catholic University of Rome
• University of Pescara
• Comparative study in preparation for robotic surgery vs. radiation therapy of oropharyngeal cancer
• The CorPath 200 got cleared in the US
• Recently, a market analysis was released on medical robotics. It was claimed that the "booming medical robotics market will reach $1.8B by 2018". This tells a lot about it: Intuivie only had a revenue of $1.75B last year, and other companies forecasted is to achieve $14 billion by 2014...  The study sells for $100 per page (apparently containing a lot of feer info and press releases). Our take: rather read this blog! 

• A nice event to attend: Leeds 2nd International Oncological Engineering Conference Submission deadline: Aug. 15. Learn more about the program here.
• Attend an IEEE CS webinar: How to Improve Surgical Procedures, Reduce Costs, and Increase Patient Safety 
• Check out the full proceedings of the recent BioRob Workshop on Robot-Assisted Laryngeal Microsurgery
• The RP-VITA telehealth robot has rolled out
• DASH knee surgery with iPad
• Firewalls to protect your inplanted devices
• 3D printing an exo-skeleton for a kid 
• Some honest remarks about surgical education (Check back later for more!) 

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