InnOPlan

The surgical department, along with its operating rooms, is a central facility in the hospital where most of the actual patient care takes place and where high costs are incurred. Given the ongoing debate about healthcare costs, it is essential to optimize the organizational and logistical planning, processes, use of materials and resources, and documentation of all work steps in the operating room in order to make them more efficient. In this context, the data already generated by numerous devices and systems in and around the operating room should be utilized.

The InnOPlan system uses the operating room within the clinic as a smart platform and provides data generated there. In addition to the challenge of processing, transporting, and storing this data, it must also be possible to evaluate the data very quickly so that it can be used as a basis for new applications. HB Technologies AG has developed a solution for identifying trigger points in the data stream for this purpose. A reference application is available that can precisely predict the progress of an operation and thus also the end of it based on the data stream. In addition to the expected end of the operation, the developed application (backend and mobile app) can be used to evaluate and pass on further information, making it available for other applications in the hospital environment.

KARL STORZ SE, SMARTIT, the University of Hohenheim, the University of Leipzig, and Heidelberg University Hospital are all involved. The project was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) through its sponsoring agency VDI Technologiezentrum GmbH Düsseldorf.

With STORZ's OR1 operating room platform, which is already successfully established on the market, it is possible to use, evaluate, and establish novel big data-based services and systems on the market.