Area of Impact: Health - Practice Questions

(a) Identify one input and one output device used in robotic surgery.
One input device can be a joystick that the doctor can use to control the robot and one output device can be a screen to display the different types of operations that the doctor is performing.
(b) Describe one capability and one limitation of the robot when used in surgery.
One capability of the robot can be that robots, unlike many humans, can work for a long period of time which greatly decreases the probability that it would make a mistake whereas with an actual doctor who might be getting tired after performing a long operation might mess up by accident. One limitation of the robot when being used in surgery is that robots,unlike many humans, cannot display a sense of judgement which means that even though that particular robot has been used for hundreds of surgeries, it cannot remember what happened during any of them and cannot properly make a judgement call in a time of utter emergency.
(d) Discuss one economic concern, one reliability concern and one other concern for patients undergoing robotic surgery. Evaluate the significance of these concerns.
For one, patients might become worried about where their information happens to be going considering that all of their information is being stored digitally. Thusly, another concern that is being raised in one of security because where is the information being sent to and who has authorization over it? So in order to make sure that security within the digital database stays secure, the hospital would have to set up policies that would make sure all patient information was secured in a particular area.