{"id":194535,"date":"2024-08-14T07:25:23","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T12:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/the-future-of-surgery-ai-and-machine-learning-in-operating-rooms"},"modified":"2024-08-14T07:25:23","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T12:25:23","slug":"the-future-of-surgery-ai-and-machine-learning-in-operating-rooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/the-future-of-surgery-ai-and-machine-learning-in-operating-rooms","title":{"rendered":"The Future Of Surgery: AI And Machine Learning In Operating Rooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-future-of-surgery-ai-and-machine-learning-in-operating-rooms3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The uptake of artificial intelligence (AI), computer vision and machine learning has been high in some industries, such as retail (see AiFi and Standard AI) and automotive (see Waymo and Tesla), but we\u2019re now starting to see it break into some of the most critical aspects of society.<\/p>\n<p>The recent accelerations in healthcare are perhaps the best example of this. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthcaredive.com\/news\/vast-majority-of-hospitals-say-they-have-an-ai-strategy-up-from-just-half\/596412\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.healthcaredive.com\/news\/vast-majority-of-hospitals-say-they-have-an-ai-strategy-up-from-just-half\/596412\/\" aria-label=\"Over 90% of hospitals\">Over 90% of hospitals<\/a> and healthcare systems now have an AI or automation strategy in place, up from 53% in 2019, and \u201cthe global market for surgical robotics and computer-assisted surgery is anticipated to grow from $6.1 billion in 2020 to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ldv.co\/blog\/visual-data-is-the-crux-of-ai-automation-for-the-future-of-all-industries\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ldv.co\/blog\/visual-data-is-the-crux-of-ai-automation-for-the-future-of-all-industries\" aria-label=\"$11.6 billion by 2025\">$11.6 billion by 2025<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AI is starting to become more than just a buzzword. At this very moment, we\u2019re starting to see AI-enhanced advanced tooling augment human capabilities and reshape how surgical procedures are planned, executed and managed. With aging populations, rising costs, lack of medical staff and backlogs worse than ever (almost <a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.org.uk\/news-and-comment\/news\/nhs-waiting-list-to-peak-at-more-than-8-million-by-summer-2024#:~:text=New%20analysis%20by%20the%20Health, whether%20NHS%20industrial%20action%20continues.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.health.org.uk\/news-and-comment\/news\/nhs-waiting-list-to-peak-at-more-than-8-million-by-summer-2024#:~:text=New%20analysis%20by%20the%20Health, whether%20NHS%20industrial%20action%20continues.\" aria-label=\"8 million people\">8 million people<\/a> in the U.K.), the demand for AI-driven efficiency and surgery precision is escalating like never before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The uptake of artificial intelligence (AI), computer vision and machine learning has been high in some industries, such as retail (see AiFi and Standard AI) and automotive (see Waymo and Tesla), but we\u2019re now starting to see it break into some of the most critical aspects of society. The recent accelerations in healthcare are perhaps [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}