**7.4 Economic analysis at the regional medical center level**

Hospitals are the main body for introducing and using new medical technologies, and they are also the most commonly used perspective for economic analysis. For hospitals, the cost of remote surgery includes resource costs used during surgery (instrumentation and surgical supplies), drugs, food and lodging, and nursing, as well as indirect costs such as hospital management and operating expenses. Remote surgery is a medical activity that connects experts with patients and medical workers using computer communication technology and medical technology to achieve longdistance data, text, voice, and image data transmission. Considering the characteristics of remote medical services, the cost of remote medical services should include hardware costs, software costs, housing costs, labor costs, and operating costs.

