{"id":9468,"date":"2026-01-02T23:02:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T23:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/02\/hospitals-robots-training-prisoners-dilemma\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T23:02:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T23:02:23","slug":"hospitals-robots-training-prisoners-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/02\/hospitals-robots-training-prisoners-dilemma\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: New medical technology presents hospitals with a prisoner\u2019s dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Opinion: New medical technology presents hospitals with a prisoner\u2019s dilemma<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In 2026, Medtronic plans to launch a new robot to compete with a legacy market leader. This new robot is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medtechdive.com\/news\/Medtronic-Hugo-FDA-submission-urology\/746489\/\">reportedly<\/a> cheaper both in startup and sustained costs. That\u2019s a welcome direction for any new medical technology, but it ignores a problem that hospitals, especially rural ones, face relating to technology and physician training.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, rational decisions made in isolation lead to irrational outcomes for everyone involved. This is the lesson of the <a href=\"https:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/prisoner-dilemma\/\">prisoner\u2019s dilemma<\/a>, a classic game theory puzzle demonstrating how cooperation and self-interest often clash. In the puzzle, two prisoners are each offered a deal: Inform on the other and go free, or stay silent and face a lighter sentence together. Fearing betrayal, both inform and both lose.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/01\/02\/hospitals-robots-training-prisoners-dilemma\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    James L. Whiteside and Dmitry Tumin<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/01\/02\/hospitals-robots-training-prisoners-dilemma\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion: New medical technology presents hospitals with a prisoner\u2019s dilemma In 2026, Medtronic plans to launch a new robot to compete with a legacy market leader. This new robot is reportedly cheaper both in startup and sustained costs. That\u2019s a welcome direction for any new medical technology, but it ignores a problem that hospitals, especially [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2143,2217,2212,2314],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-9468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-opinion","category-health-tech","category-hospitals","category-physicians","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}