Question

1) Please discuss the advantages and disadvantages of robotic surgery to the patient or to the surgeon.

2) Given that information technologies are playing a more active role in surgery, what steps would you recommend be taken to protect patients from the effects of computer viruses, electrical malfunctions, and software bugs?

3) As the administrator of a small hospital, discuss the advantages and disadvantages of introducing a centralized computerized hospital pharmacy system using robots.

4) Telepharmacy could prove to be a benefit to elderly patients who have difficulty traveling and those suffering from heart attacks or brain strokes. However, privacy, security, and legal issues may have to be settled before telepharmacy becomes an established part of health care. Do you agree with this statement? Please consider licensing issues and the lack of security of networked communications in your answer.

Answer 1

1) Advantages of robotic surgery :-

1. Doctors can be able to perform the surgery in an unrestrictive manner with the patients.
2. Less no. of staffs are needed to perform a surgery which in turns reduces costs.
3. With the help of robotic surgery, patients can receive quality healthcare.
4. Robotic surgery can give much accuracy to the patients' surgery.
5. Surgeon can be able to take much breaks in between a surgery with the help of robotics.

Disadvantages of robotic surgery :-

1. Giving proper instructions and setting a robot for surgery is time consuming process.
2. This robotic surgery idea comes with extreme cost implementation.
3. A specialized person is needed to take care of the robot and to repair it when needed. This also adds some costs.
4. There is chance of more injury or even death for the patients while in the surgery.
5. As this method is highly technical, there is great chance in surgery to get technical fault.

Hope this helps :)