400 successful operations, survival rate 98%
Hello, this is Sherpa Robotics. Today we have translated for you an article by Aman Tripathi, an experienced journalist and news editor for leading publications and media outlets, including The Hindu, Economic Times, Tomorrow Makers. In his article, he writes about the possibilities and advantages of robotic surgeries using the example of a hospital in Saudi Arabia. Why did we find this interesting? Because robotics in surgery increases the chances of survival – and this applies to everyone. Let's give the floor to the author of the original article, and then together we will see how things are going in this area in Russia.
The King Faisal Royal Specialist Hospital & Research Center (KFSH&RC) in Saudi Arabia has taken the medical world by storm. They have performed 400 successful robotic heart surgeries to date, with a 98% survival rate.
These are not just numbers. This is a revolution.
KFSH&RC has turned traditional cardiac surgery on its head. Medical robots are no longer science fiction, but reality:
• less time in hospital: after heart surgery, the patient can return home 50% faster;
• cheaper and safer: robotic surgeries are not only faster, but also more cost-effective, and complications from them are less common;
• technologies are used to save children: KFSH&RC is the only hospital in the world that performs robotic heart surgeries on children;
• Complex tasks are no problem: robots have already successfully performed numerous surgeries, including aortic valve replacement and multi-valve surgeries.
The world of medicine is changing
Misso, a robot that helps surgeons plan and perform orthopedic surgeries, is already in operation in India. And AiM Medical Robotics has developed an MRI-compatible robot that allows for real-time surgery planning.
And although robotic surgeries are initially more expensive, in the long term their advantages are undeniable: fewer complications, faster recovery, higher quality of life.
Robotics in the medical field in Russia
In Russia, over the past 5 years, more than 20 thousand robot-assisted surgeries have been performed. About 50 domestic companies are developing medical robotics, creating solutions that are already being successfully implemented in the Russian Federation and abroad.
Surgical robots, bionic exoprostheses, and exoskeletons have been actively developed, helping people achieve a fundamentally new quality of life, a completely new level of medical care, allowing operations to be performed that were previously unavailable or were available, but with much greater losses and consequences.
“The medical robot market will reach $5 billion by 2026. It is growing every year, with the average growth of service robotics being 10 to 30% compared to the previous year. Of course, service robotics includes not only medical robots, but also other robots. The reasons for the growth of this market segment are the high percentage of successful operations, the reduction of the human factor, the increase in the number of tasks solved per unit of time, and the reduction of the rehabilitation period,” noted Olga Mudrova, executive director of the National Association of Robotics Market Participants (NAURR), in the report “Robotics in Medicine. Trends, Developments, and Implementation.”
Robotization of business processes in the medical industry
It is not only hardware robots that create value. The active implementation of medical robots requires the medical sector not only to improve the qualifications of personnel in terms of using new technology, but also to improve business processes, reduce costs for routine operations and shift the focus to more intelligent tasks.
If patients have to wait a long time for registration and go through administrative barriers, this can complicate their path to receiving timely and qualified medical care. Therefore, it is very important to eliminate organizational barriers in medicine.
We at Sherpa Robotics actively collaborate with companies in the medical industry in terms of software robotization of their administrative processes.
Examples of robotic processes in medicine
Automatic collection and analysis of patient data.
Forecasting and preventing diseases.
Diagnosis and treatment recommendations.
Monitoring the health status of patients.
Management of medical records and documents.
Automation of processes in laboratories and clinics.
Development and testing of new drugs and treatments.
Robots that can be delegated routine tasks are especially in demand in the medical field, for example, robotization is popular in the contract and tender process. This significantly reduces the time spent on these operations and allows you to focus on direct assistance to patients.
Below are examples of operations that we robotized for our customer from the medical field.
Robotization of the contractual process
Automatic creation of contract templates taking into account the specifics of oncological services and drugs;
Intelligent analysis of contracts for compliance with medical standards and legislation in the field of healthcare;
Automated coordination of contracts between company departments and partner clinics;
Centralized storage and management of contracts in compliance with medical data confidentiality requirements.
Robotization of tenders
Automatic search for tenders for the supply of oncological drugs and equipment;
Preparation of tender documentation using specialized medical templates;
Automated evaluation of suppliers of medical equipment and drugs;
Managing deadlines and stages of the tender process taking into account the urgency of deliveries.
Such robotization significantly improves the customer’s interaction with leading Moscow clinics, accelerates the procurement of necessary drugs and equipment, and improves the quality of patient care.
Robots come in different forms. And we will increasingly encounter them in our everyday lives. Tell us, what robots have you already interacted with? How did your “communication” end?
