title: Otolaryngology in the information age: enabling technologies for the future of surgery. Enabling technologies for the future of surgery.
abstract: Enabling technologies for the future, whether exemplified by endoscopic, minimally invasive, or microdexterity systems or surgical and nonsurgical image-guided procedures, continue with an evolution so rapid that before one change has been accepted and perfected, another even more dramatic change promises to replace it. These information-based surgical and procedural interventions are just now becoming accepted standards of surgical, radiologic, and medical practice, and yet the promise of more advanced technologies blurs even these new boundaries, constantly redefining the concept of "surgery." It is essential that otolaryngologists, as part of the broader spectrum of physicians, understand these changes and prepare to adapt and improve each and every one of their technical and cognitive skills.
authors.affiliation: Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
authors.forename: S B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: R B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Kuppersmith
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Satava
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D008490:Medical Informatics; D010036:Otolaryngology / Q000639:trends*; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative; D017216:Telemedicine; D014584:User-Computer Interface