According to a new Working Paper by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, titled " Technology, skills, and performance: the case of robots in surgery " (freely available here ) robots have the potential to reduce variation in patient outcomes that would arise from heterogeneity in surgeons’ skills. Interestingly, it also points out an important inefficiency of our innovation systems: lower skilled surgeons may face a higher cost of using the robot as they are usually operating in less "ready" settings, and thus, despite them/their patients having the highest gains, they are less likely to use the robot on any given patient. These findings, that we would love to see replicated in other ecosystems (do we have connections that would consider working on this together?) seem to highlight the existence of an organisational gap between the necessity of testing new technologies (R&D) in high performing settings to better control confounders, and the need to transfer those n...

  Today we are joining the CoARA constitutive assembly meeting, to change the future of R&I in Europe together It's been a long and yet incredibly quick and vital trajectory until today And we congratulate and thank again the core group and drafting team for the impressive work they put in making this possible ...we are in great company...  and we look forward to bringing about a fairer and more meaningful practice of R&I for the future of everyone in Europe

Out Chairman Dr Marco Manca will join the Forum Risk Management  on November the 22nd 2022, invited to contribute to the session on  Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine in Italy (CME accredited) hosted by the Italian Institute of Medicine . Drop by and say "hi" if you are attending!