Design And Development Of Smart Surgical Assistant Technologies Av Jeff J.H. Kim, Richard Um, Rajiv R. Iyer, Nicholas (Johns Hopkins University Baltim

<P>Are Amazon Alexa and Google Home limited to our bedrooms, or can they be used in hospitals? Do you envision a future where physicians work hand-in-hand with voice AI to revolutionize healthcare delivery? In the near future, clinical smart assistants will be able to automate many manual hospital tasks¿and this will be only the beginning of the changes to come.</P><P>Voice AI is the future of physician-machine interaction and this Focus book provides invaluable insight on its next frontier. It begins with a brief history and current implementations of voice-activated assistants and illustrates why clinical voice AI is at its inflection point. Next, it describes how the authors built the world¿s first smart surgical assistant using an off-the-shelf smart home device, outlining the implementation process in the operating room. From quantitative metrics to surgeons¿ feedback, the authors discuss the feasibility of this technology in the surgical setting. The book then provides an in-dept