Surgery Archives

2 January 2018

Da vinci robots, which provides minimally invasive surgery for patients, have been introduced at Barts Health NHS trust thanks to

20 December 2017

Robotics can help the healthcare sector deliver better care with limited resources, argues Jeremy Russell. But for uptake to accelerate,

7 December 2016

Digital Health News reporter Laura Stevens goes to Bournemouth to try her hand at (virtual reality) surgery. She learns she

3 May 2016

NHS Highland is working with an Inverness-based technology company to develop the use of smart glasses in health care.

13 April 2016

An operation performed tomorrow (14 April) at a London hospital on a patient with colon cancer will be the first

11 July 2014

University researchers at Imperial College London have developed a mobile app to help patients prepare for surgery and reduce the

23 October 2013

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has bought a robot to help surgeons perform complex operations.

17 October 2013

A proof-of-concept that uses Google Glass to deliver patient data to doctors has been announced by Philips and Accenture.

14 June 2013

Doctors who opt out of disclosing their performance data should be “named and shamed”, the health secretary has said.

18 December 2012

Doctors’ leaders have backed plans to publish outcome data for most surgeons in England; as long as the information is

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