Episode 21
How Next Gen Technology Will Influence the Future of Healthcare with Dr. Roger Smith
Aired On: July 23, 2024
From AI to telesurgery, there are a lot emerging technologies that have the potential to transform how we approach healthcare. Dr. Roger Smith, Chief Strategist at modelbenders.ai and expert in robotic surgery technologies, joins our hosts Michael Roberts and Justin Bantuelle to discuss how the next generation of technologies might influence the future of healthcare.
In this Episode
- 00:01:09 FDA-Approved Robotic Surgical Devices
- 00:03:28 The Use of AI in Surgical Procedures
- 00:08:12 Challenges of Communicating AI in Healthcare
- 00:10:28 The Future of AI in Healthcare
- 00:27:58 Telesurgery and its Potential Implementation
Quotes From This Episode
When I started working in medical robotics in 2010, I found that I was fascinated with the technology. But when I mentioned it to my family or people that I work with in other fields, they were really freaked out about it. They were really uncomfortable, and I didn’t realize that until I started talking about it in my daily life. And so I think AI is at that same vein, the people who have been working with it for five years are very comfortable with a certain level of it and implementing it, but they’re finding when they try to discuss it with people who haven’t even thought about it or haven’t seen it move gradually into health care, that it scares them.
Dr. Roger Smith
I’ve been using ChatGPT and Quad for some research into robotic surgery, and it dawned on me that these models are trained on pretty much everything on the internet. So that means when you talk to them about robotic surgery, they have learned from medical journals…medical textbooks, anything published by doctors. But they’ve also learned from science fiction, from marketing promotions, from all kinds of other sources. And the models can’t really tell the difference between what is medically accurate and what is speculative, or the social media discussions around robotic surgery.
Dr. Roger Smith
I think if telesurgery is going to happen, at least in the West, it’s going to have to happen first in a military environment. So we’re going to have to have a war that happens where we need surgical skills closer to the battlefield, and telesurgery is the only way to do it. And after we’ve done several thousand surgeries for soldiers and we see that we save this many lives and we save this many limbs, that that can propagate backwards.
Dr. Roger Smith
