...My computing innovation is Surgical Robots, essentially anything related to robots in the field of surgery. The Da Vinci Surgical System’s purpose and function is to allow cuts, sutures, and other procedures to be more precise than would be possible for a surgeon to do by hand to allow for a faster recovery time for the patient. My artifact illustrates the function of the Da Vinci Surgical System by giving examples of what it can do, as shown in the sutures example, and what fields of surgery it is a part of. 2b. I used Microsoft Word to develop my artifact. The first thing I did was find several pictures that would show the function of my innovation then I saved them on to my computer. Afterwards, I inserted all of them into my Word Document....
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...While surgical robotics will have a significant impact on surgical practice, it presents challenges so much in the realm of legal issues of medicine and health care. Robotic surgery may open new avenues in the near future in surgical practice. However, in robotic surgery, special training and experience along with high quality assessment are required in order to provide normal conscientious care and state-of-the-art treatment. While the legal basis for professional liability remains exactly the same, litigation with the use of robotic surgery may be complex. In case of an undesirable outcome, in addition to physician and hospital, the manufacturer of the robotic system may be sued. In respect to ethical issues in robotic surgery, equipment safety and reliability, provision of adequate information, and maintenance of confidentiality are all of paramount importance. Also, the cost of robotic surgery and the lack of such systems in most of the public hospitals may restrict the majority from the benefits offered by the new technology. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20224537 Litigation after cybersurgery, i.e. remote robotic surgery, will be complex. In addition to being able to sue physicians and hospitals, patients who sustain an adverse outcome after cybersurgery will have the potential to sue the robotic manufacturer and the telecommunications company. Moreover, cybersurgery litigation will involve laws that are generally unfamiliar to healthcare providers. Accordingly...
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...Robotic Surgery The robotic surgery system market is predominantly run by a surgical system currently known as: Da Vinci; however, the Raven II is another system that is out there and is making an impact on robotic surgery research and studies. There are obvious differences between both systems and their capabilities, but we will investigate further. Additionally, there are a significant number of surgeries that are being performed by the da Vinci surgical robots in hospitals and in regards to research. The Raven II surgical robot is opening doors of opportunity for technological advancement purposes. All this is a driving effort to better improve healthcare services in relations to minimally invasive surgical procedures and to drive the advancement of this technology through industry collaboration. The da Vinci surgical system was originally developed in the former Stanford Research Institute under contract to the U.S. Army; however, the idea of introducing a product for commercial applications was the route taken by Intuitive Surgical in an effort to find different applications for minimally invasive surgical procedures. Every aspect of the da Vinci robotic system is proprietary which includes both the production and assembly of the hardware and software. This closed model approach has allowed Intuitive Surgical to monopolize the surgical robot system market. Results of the success they have had, as of May 2013 they were listed as number eight on the Forbes list for innovative...
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...continues to lead the surgical robotic market in both market penetration and revenue stream. This company continues its reach to surgeons and patients globally through its opportunity to offer minimally invasive solutions with latest technology. Faced with environmental changes and new competition on the horizon, Intuitive Surgical has some challenges to face while maintaining positive results for investors. Overview This paper is based on research performed on Intuitive Surgical Inc, (NASDAQ: ISRG) and includes details about company’s line of business, place within its industry, and overall business situation as it is perceived by its customer based. Certain company financials will be introduced, analyzed, and discussed throughout the paper to help describe the perspective of value that this company has to investors and consumers alike. An industry analysis will help explain the strengths, weaknesses, and challenges this company faces amidst policy changes and increasing competition. Line of Business and Overall Business Situation Intuitive Surgical, Inc. is a leader in minimally invasive robotic-assisted surgery and competes in the global market. This company has capitalized on the growing demand from surgeons and patients desiring minimally invasive procedures across many surgical disciplines. In January of 1999, the da Vinci System was launched and was the first robotic surgical system cleared by the FDA for general laparoscopic surgery. The FDA cleared the da...
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...Remote Robotic Surgery in Germany By: Christopher Redman MIS535 I will discuss how robots entered our lives, and this has historical roots after the play by the author Karel Capek, then those robots entered all aspects of our lives, and my topic is the medical field; the first robotic usage was performed in 1987, and there was many drawbacks to those first experiences such as restricted degrees of motion, decreased sense of touch, and .increased sensitivity to hand movement. The main issues that surrounds this procedures is safety measures and maintenance, as there is no grantee that the computer systems of robot is going to work in high safe. Other issues comes from the cost, since robotic surgery is more expensive than traditional, this will make it unavailable for public hospitals, and those who are poor may not be able to benefit from this technology, but this transfer from traditional methods in medicine must happen, as technology affected all aspects of our lives. Robot might sound as a very modern scientific invention, but it is not as the first time “robot” was introduced and coined was in 1921, in a play written by the Czech writer Karel Capek, and since then robots took a place in many aspects of our lives, they also take place in dangerous and highly precise tasks, such as aviation, and here we will discuss the medical usage of robots, starting from the history, to political and economic questions, also Psychological considerations...
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...movable figures. Since then there has been major breakthrough in robotics. Working in the hospital for the first time was a very interesting experience for me. As I was walking down the hallway I was suddenly shocked at what I saw. There was a robot roaming the hall. At first I had no idea what it was and what it was doing in the hospital. I later learned that this robot played a very essential role at the hospital. The robot transferred medication to and from the pharmacy. A lot of hospitals nowadays use robots like the one I had seen which looked like to be roaming the halls. The reason that hospitals use such robots is it makes the transportation of medication safer since there is no longer a need to have to worry about anyone steeling any medication. The robot can also collect a patients sample and deliver the patients sample to a doctor or the labs for work. These robots can automatically adjust to its environment by adding new parts of the hospital to its internal map. The robot is also able to overcome any obstacle that is put in its path by using inferred sensors and cameras to tell when a person is walking anywhere around it and can stop or divert around such an obstacle. One day these robots are going to be running the hospital making it safer when it comes to having to deal with dangerous material or when having to be around radiation. Today surgery is done in an innovated way. Surgery today is much safer than it was a few years ago. Today the doctors...
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...After viewing the Da Vinci Surgical system, I must admit it was a very interesting way of doing surgery. It is done by having the real surgeon working the console that controls the robot’s arms. As of now there is no way to program the equipment, but in time, I believe this will become a reality, with the age of technology advancing quickly; robots will be able to work alone without the aid of an actual person. At this time there is only one company that makes this robotic surgical system. They would like to make this procedure the standard for surgeries by encouraging surgeons and hospitals to adapt this technique. The cost to the hospital will be between $1 and $2.3 million depending on the model purchased. Plus, there is a service agreement that ranges from $100,000 to $170,000 per year. This alone will be a huge expense that the hospital has to endure and the patients will also feel the cost through the rising medical costs. There are some hospitals that have approved and have endorsed the robotic surgery are being better than conventional surgery, but there are not enough clinical trials proving this statement (M.D, 2013). To understand if the hospital facility should use robotic surgery, several things have to be considered. The first one being is the size of the community and how many hospitals there are. If there are less than 25 thousand and have only 1 to 2 hospitals, it would not be a viable solution to the community, if it was to occur and the need was minimal...
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...institutions, focus on leading surgeons to drive rapid and broad adoption, maintain market leadership, and increase patient awareness. By creating industry alliances, companies can collaborate with each other to create innovative ideas together so that the best products can be produced. Under developing industry alliances, Intuitive Surgical “will continue to establish strategic alliances with leader medical device companies… in areas of product development, training, and procedure development and marketing activities” (Hoffman, 2010). By focusing on key institutions, “the firm focuses on academic and community hospitals” (Hoffman, 2010). The company will ensure customer and patient satisfaction by bestowing the knowledge needed to use their robotic systems. Also, by increasing patient awareness through the Internet, Intuitive Surgical “will educate potential...
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...During the early part of the 1900s, interest was piqued by Goltz’s experiment. It thrived during the 1930s and 1940s, yet around the 50s serious thought was put into the repercussions of such a surgery. The idea of lobotomization was shown in the 1972 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and it affected the main character, McMurphy, in much the same way people around the world were affected. McMurphy became practically a vegetable after the lobotomy. This film showed how lobotomies could transform a cheerful person and alter them into a moody person who hardly spoke. It goes to show how impactful and how negative lobotomies have been in the world of...
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...MEMO Group 4 is recommending investors to hold their stocks in Stryker Corporation. This memo focuses on measures and additional information which support the position not to buy or sell, but to hold Stryker stock. Included are certain of the company’s liquidity and solvency ratios, along with profitability, dividends history and stock ratios. Stryker is a leading medical technology company based in Kalamazoo, MI. More than 2/3 of their sales are within the US, where most products are marketed directly to the medical community. The remaining sales are in over 100 countries through company-owned sales subsidiaries and branches, as well as through 3rd parties. Stryker sells 3 types of cutting edge, advanced technology products: Orthopaedics, Medical Surgery, and Neurotechnology and Spine1. In Stryker’s main revenue-generating product, Orthopaedics, the company is one of five leading competitors globally. Prior to the financial analysis, we highlight three major activities of the company in 2014: firstly, several mergers and acquisitions added expertise, customers and assets, the most intriguing being MAKO, which helps the company build out robotic arm assisted surgery; secondly, a major recall to its hip system occurred due to corrosion; and thirdly, the company continues to spend for patents and R&D. Stryker’s liquidity and solvency ratios appear far from impressive (see ref 1. Liquidity/Solvency). The Current and Debt to Assets ratios point to diminishing liquidity...
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...IT190-1501A-01 : Introduction to IT Information Systems of Sterling Urgent Care Ryder May 02/09/15 TOC Section 1: Information Systems Overview 4 What is Sterling Urgent Care? 4 Choosing the Right Information System for SUC 4 Section 2: Information Systems Concepts 7 Types of Communication 7 SUC’s Communication Technology 8 SUC’s Virtual Private Network 9 Section 3: Business Information Systems 11 Data Systems 11 TPS (Transaction processing system) 11 MIS (Management information system) 11 DSS (Decision support system) 12 KMS (Knowledge management system) 12 AI (Artificial intelligence) 12 Information Systems within SUC 14 Section 4: System Development 16 Prototype Model 16 Waterfall model 17 Implementation of the Waterfall model 17 Waterfall Phases 18 System Investigation 18 System Design 19 System Implementation 19 System Verification 19 System Maintenance 19 Section 5: Information Systems and Society 20 Types of Hacking 20 Social Engineering 20 Dumpster Diving 21 Identity Theft 23 Illegal Access and Use 23 References 25 Section 1: Information Systems Overview What is Sterling Urgent Care? Sterling Urgent Care (SUC) is a non-existent urgent care facility located in the small town of Sterling Colorado. This is a private-owed walk in clinic that will provide health care ranging from routine doctor visits to emergent care. This organization will require internal users from several different departments, as well as outside healthcare...
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...Analyzing Due Process in the Workplace ELIHU M. GERSON AND SUSAN LEIGH STAR Tremont Research Institute Every office is an open system, and the products of office work are the result of decentralized negotiations. Changing patterns of task organization and alliance inevitably give rise to inconsistent knowledge bases and procedures. This implies that there are no globally correct answers to problems addressed by OIL%. Rather, systems must deal with multiple competing, possibly irreconcilable, solutions. Articulating alternative solutions is the problem of due process. This problem and its consequences are illustrated by a case study of a rate-setting group in a large health insurance firm. There is no formal solution to the problem of due process. But it must be solved in practice if distributed intelligent 01% are to be developed. We propose an alternative approach based on the work of social scientists concerned with analyzing analogous problems in human organization. Solution of the due process problem hinges on developing local closures to the problem faced by an organization. This means analyzing (a) local, tacit knowledge and its transfer ability; (b) articulation work, that is, reconciling incommensurate assumptions and procedures. Categories and Subject Descriptors: H.l.l [Models and Principles]: Systems and Information Theory; 1.2.0 [Artificial Intelligence]: General; 1.2.4 [Artificial Intelligence]: Knowledge Rep- resentation Formalisms...
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...ch05.qxd 9/27/04 4:19 PM Page 174 CHAPTER Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Job Costing In Brief Custom products and services, which are produced singly or in small batches, need to be valued for financial statements, tax reporting, and management monitoring. Job costing is an accounting method used to assign product costs to custom products or services. In job costing, direct costs are traced and overhead costs are allocated to individual jobs. Sometimes defects occur in custom products. Defective units can sometimes be reworked. The costs for both spoilage and rework need to be accounted for, as does the cost of scrap that arises from production. This Chapter Addresses the Following Questions: How are costs assigned to customized goods and services? How is overhead allocated to individual jobs? What is the difference between actual costing and normal costing? What are the uses and limitations of job cost information? How are spoilage, rework, and scrap handled in job costing? What are the quality and behavioral implications of spoilage? ch05.qxd 9/27/04 4:19 PM Page 175 BOMBARDIER: CUSTOM MANUFACTURING n 1942, the Canadian company L’AutoNeige Bombardier Limitée began manufacturing tracked vehicles for snow-covered terrain. These vehicles were early models of what later became snowmobiles. In English, L’Auto-Neige means snow car. Over time, the company developed expertise in building engines and expanded into other markets such as personal watercraft, aircraft, subway cars, buses...
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...Title of Educational Activity: Mindful Listening Purpose / Goals: To provide information and tools to assist the health care professional in communicating more effectively through the client/patient / care giver relationship, as listening is a significant part of the communication process. M0707121 Objectives List the educational objectives. 1. Response to and discuss the question: “What is communication?” Content (Topics) Provide an outline of the content/topic presented and indicate to which objective(s) the content/topic is related. I. A. B. C. D. E. II. A. B. C. D. E. F. III. 1. 2. 3. 1. Communication - What it is It is NOT about words It is about connecting with another person It is about deep listening It is about frank and honest dialog It is about trust Development of listening skills Increase in patient satisfaction Increase in patient retention Increase in best possible clinical outcomes. Increase in patient loyalty Increase in word of mouth referrals Increase in patient cooperation compliance The Myths of Listening Listening means agreeing: agreeing is not good listening Listening is a lot of hard work: focused, deep listening takes 45 seconds Listening requires you have to “act like you’re listening.” Listening takes too much time: people interrupt their clients after the first 12-14 seconds of the client speaking. What Makes A Mindful Listener A. A mindful listener “gets the whole picture”, not just the words but gestures, tone, attitude, expressions and pauses...
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...NOTE: This PDF document has a handy set of “bookmarks” for it, which are accessible by pressing the Bookmarks tab on the left side of this window. ***************************************************** We are the last. The last generation to be unaugmented. The last generation to be intellectually alone. The last generation to be limited by our bodies. We are the first. The first generation to be augmented. The first generation to be intellectually together. The first generation to be limited only by our imaginations. We stand both before and after, balancing on the razor edge of the Event Horizon of the Singularity. That this sublime juxtapositional tautology has gone unnoticed until now is itself remarkable. We're so exquisitely privileged to be living in this time, to be born right on the precipice of the greatest paradigm shift in human history, the only thing that approaches the importance of that reality is finding like minds that realize the same, and being able to make some connection with them. If these books have influenced you the same way that they have us, we invite your contact at the email addresses listed below. Enjoy, Michael Beight, piman_314@yahoo.com Steven Reddell, cronyx@gmail.com Here are some new links that we’ve found interesting: KurzweilAI.net News articles, essays, and discussion on the latest topics in technology and accelerating intelligence. SingInst.org The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence: think tank devoted to increasing...
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