The future is now for surgery suites.
The operating room has become a hotbed for hospital technology. Headset-wearing surgeons issue voice commands to adjust lighting, reposition cameras and raise or lower the operating table. Surgical robots on wheels move from one OR to the next. Decision-support tools alert clinicians to the possibility of error.
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