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very day, your OR teams use numerous real-world
products and evidence-based techniques to better
ensure every patient's safety. However, when adverse
events or near misses occur, or when process improve-
ments are sought to improve patient safety, it's not
easy to generate usable data that can be analyzed and acted upon.
Digital technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR)
and augmented reality (AR) are helping facilities access and analyze
much more data than ever before. It's all part of an emerging environ-
ment in which digital technologies enable more precise, efficient and
accurate surgeries with a higher degree of safety.
Informed Decisions Enhance Patient Safety
Artificial intelligence, virtual reality and augmented reality
are helping surgeons leverage data to perform safer surgeries.
Joe Paone | Senior Associate Editor
• FUTURE LOOK Surgeons wearing VR headsets are able to prepare better for surgeries, as well as get "hands-on" experience
with new tools and techniques.
