Abstract:The use of connected surgical robotics to automate medical procedures presents new privacy challenges. We argue that conventional patient consent protocols will no longer work. Indeed robots that replace surgeons take on an extraordinary level of responsibility. Human surgeons undergo years of training and peer review in an strongly regulated environment, and they derive trust via a patient's faith in the hospital system beyond the surgeon him/herself. Robots on the other hand derive trust not through the hosp… Show more
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