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Biotech / Medical : Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (ISRG)
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From: IceHawk2/28/2018 2:58:30 PM
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5 of the Most Disruptive Stocks in Healthcare

These innovative companies hope to change healthcare for the better.

Todd Campbell ( TMFEBCapital)

Feb 28, 2018 at 9:15AM

Investing in companies that are revolutionizing healthcare can be profit-friendly, but deciding what stocks to buy can be hard. Healthcare innovation can come in fits and starts and revenue streams are only as certain as the patents protecting them. Here are five of the most disruptive stocks that investors can buy today.

No. 3: A robotics revolution
Robotic surgery isn't science fiction, it's already being commonly used in hospitals worldwide thanks to Intuitive Surgical's ( NASDAQ:ISRG) da Vinci surgical robot.

Using technology developed to provide surgery on the battlefield, Intuitive Surgical's da Vinci system has already been used to perform over 5 million surgeries. As more providers discover the advantages of robotic surgery, including improved recovery times and fewer complications, that number will climb. In 2017 alone there were 875,000 procedures done using da Vinci systems.

Currently, da Vincis are most commonly used to perform urology and gynecological procedures, but increasingly they're being used in other minimally invasive laparoscopic procedures such as hernia repair and colorectal surgery. As these systems get more advanced and surgeons become even more proficient with them, robotic surgery is likely to become mainstream.

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