Robots and Robotics
Information on robots used in a health care setting.
The 10 most-read Market Scan articles of 2025, reflecting what mattered most to health care leaders this year: workforce shortages, rising cyber threats, volatile supply chains and continued experimentation by major retail and technology players seeking a foothold in care delivery.
- AHA Center for Health Innovation
- Collaboration & Partnerships
- Behavioral Health Care Delivery
- Telling the Hospital Story
- Consumerism
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Heart Disease, Cancer, Diabetes, and Other Chronic Diseases
- Wearables and Remote Patient Monitoring
- Robots and Robotics
- Nursing Thought Leaders
Ever-expanding applications of robotic surgery platforms allow health care providers to leverage the technology to reduce surgical complications, improve safety, shorten recovery times for patients, reduce length of stay and more.
Hospitals are working on workplace violence prevention using technology and training to mitigate risk and redesigning facilities to prioritize safety.
At Wellstar Health System in Marietta, Georgia, palliative care practitioners have been using a virtual reality (VR) platform to simulate the most difficult conversations any clinician may have to deliver — communicating a life-altering diagnosis.
Nearly 1,000 health care leaders and change-makers recently convened at Aspen Ideas: Health, part of the Aspen Institute’s Aspen Ideas Festival, to explore health care’s biggest challenges and debate possible solutions.