Healthcare IT News October 18, 2023
Adam Ang

A pioneering trial between Singapore and Japan has proven that it is feasible.

Clinician-scientists from Japan and Singapore have set out to test the viability of robotic telesurgery as a treatment option.

Last week, a surgical team from the National University Hospital (NUH), the flagship hospital of the National University Health System (NUHS) in Singapore, performed a gastrectomy remotely with Fujita Health University (FHU) in Japan. From a cockpit at the NUH Advanced Surgery Training Centre, the Singaporean surgeons orchestrated the procedure on a simulated stomach in a robotic operation room at FHU in Nagoya, Japan, over 3,107 miles away.

Its conduct, which is a first between the two countries, was made possible through a surgical robotic system that...

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Topics: Digital Health, Health System / Hospital, Provider, Robotics/RPA, Technology, Telehealth
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