My thought as well... an ERP system for all of healthcare, with robotic surgery as an anchor point or a hook. Scheduling, supplies, sterile processing, and direct communications with the robotic system, all tying in with other operational areas of a hospital or health care system, including finance, billing, payroll, and interfaces to insurers as well. And all reporting data back to Verb as well.
I also envision the strengthening of this robotic anchor point by building a database of surgical metrics derived from the robotic motions for each indication. With enough data, they can fairly accurately predict required movements of the end effectors for a given indication, based on patient metrics such as height, weight, age, health... Add in some image recognition software to validate the motions, and the system might initially be able to recommend the surgeon's next move or require independent verification if the surgeon appears to be doing something improper for the given procedure type. Eventually a determination could be made as to whether or not the software could perform the surgery better and more accurately than an average robotic surgeon. There is so much variability in human anatomy from person to person - whether genetic, prior surgeries, industrial accidents, tumor growth displacing organs, webs of adhesions from prior surgeries, etc. that the data collection requirements and image recognition databases would have to be huge. This would take TONS of data collection before getting to that point. Given the number of robotic cases conducted today with limited market saturation, I foresee this as the eventual future of robotic surgery, and I can only assume that is part of Verb's long term plan.
May seem a bit futuristic by today's standards, but mankind keeps proving that whatever it is, if we can dream it, we can eventually do it. It would take a Google to manage the required volumes of information, and a JnJ to have the resources and infrastructure to reach that many corners of the healthcare world. That's my guess at what Verb is aiming for, and possibly why they are trying to keep so much of it under wraps. Imagine the power of such an organization if they pull it off. I'm already imagining the investment potential!
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