Tag: robotic surgery

Fee-for-Service Health Care Jeopardizes Robotic Prostate Surgery Patients

A “perverse disincentive” for hospitals that have invested in expensive technology for robotic surgery may be jeopardizing prostate cancer patients who seek out the procedure, according to a study led by Henry Ford Hospital researchers in Detroit and presented at the 2015 American Urological Association Annual Meeting in New Orleans. A release from the hospital… Continue reading Fee-for-Service Health Care Jeopardizes Robotic Prostate Surgery Patients

Debunking Myths About Robotic Surgery

By Keith Chisholm, MD

Robotics-assisted surgery has become enormously popular, with physicians around the world performing 1.5 million procedures from hysterectomies to heart valve repairs in 2011.