CIS news

• The Wall Street Journal also picked up the recent findings regarding the economics of hysterectomy.
• Further reports also popped up.  
• MedPage Today is also discussing the hysterectomy case 
• The safety features of the da Vinci are under inspection (again), leading to a roller-coaster effect on stock prices. Learn more about the interior of the robot! 
• Doctors can still can't agree on when to use the robot
• In the mean while, Intuitive's 2012Q4 results sounds as good as always
• Nevertheless, law companies are trying to take a bite of Intuitive's cake
• Catherine Mohr: The Da Vinci Surgical Robot and Beyond
• Cool da Vinci tool for vibration sensing from UPenn.
• Not too recent article on the market status of Intuitive

• US-driven robotics development at Vivonics
• TUM's new RCM structure for eye surgery 
• 98.9 pct implant accuracy reported for the MAKO robot
• Blue Belt announced its first sale of the Navio PFS system for unicondylar knee replacements
• Surgical robotics on Pinterest 
• Seminar on the iSnake robot at IRCAD
• Haptics coming to surgical robots

• Augmented reality for neurosurgeons--with Kinect
• More Kinect in the OR
• IBM Watson's future role in medicine
• Concept of 'Medirobot' medical robotic assistant
• Robotic devices help stroke survivors regain movement
• A personal view on elderly care robots
• Medical device tax would push 146,000 jobs overseas

• Come and join us for the ICCC conference in Hungary!
• The great IRCAD student program for MIS innovation education is continuing!
• Join the ICRA workshop: "Evaluating effectiveness and acceptance of robots in surgery: user centered design and economic factors"
• Also happening at ICRA: the 1st Intl. Workshop on Surgical Vision
• Hamlyn Robotics Symposium will take place again this year
• Apply for the Telluride 2013 Neuromorphic Workhop 
• First European Design of Medical Device Conference  

• Postdoc position openings in the Biorobotics Lab at CMU
• Post-doctoral Fellowship Medical Image Processing – Computer-Aided Diagnosis at NIH

 

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