Pressemitteilung:

Für den Katastrophenfall: Neues EU-Notfallkrankenhaus unter Leipziger Beteiligung konzipiert

The automatic and dynamic networking of computer-assisted medical devices in the operating room and the interaction of these devices with medically-approved software on the basis of an open communication standard is a particular challenge for information and communication technologies in the field of medical application. Based on the results of the BMBF-funded project OR.NET (2012-2016) the last year founded OR.NET e.V. and its partners present their further work on concepts for the secure, dynamic and open integration of medical device components in the operating room and clinic.

Venue:
Messe Berlin
Messedamm 22, D-14055 Berlin
Halle 2.2 / A-104

Information ConhIT

In the scope of the conference ‘Informatics for Health’ the research group Digital Patient- and Process Model will give a tutorial on ‘Model-based therapeutic decision support — from a probabilistic and a physiological perspective’.
The tutorial focuses on fundamental problems arising during therapeutic decision making in complex diseases. Two different approaches to building a predictive disease- and patient-specific therapeutic decision model will be presented.

Date: Sunday, 23 April, 2017
Time: 09.30 am – 01.00 pm
Venue: Manchester Central, Manchester (UK)
Room: Hilton Doubletree, Scone

Program

At the DGBMT/Fraunhofer/SMIT Symposium „Krankenhaus der Zukunft“ organized by PD Dr.-Ing. Thomas Wittenberg and Prof. Andreas Melzer, ICCAS will contribute with the topics “Experiences from the Digital Operating Room Summer School”, “Computer-Assisted Intervention, Vision or Reality?” and “Workflow Analysis in the OR”. The symposium takes place in the scope of the Congress of the German Society for Endoscopy and Imaging Techniques – DGE-BV e.V.

Session: Endo-Innovation CTAC / DGBMT | Arzt meets Ingenieur I
Thursday, 06.04.2017 | Berlin, Estrel Hotel, Room V
05.00pm – 05.12pm | Lecture: Prof. Andreas Melzer “Experiences from the Digital Operating Room Summer School (DORS)”

Session: DGBMT I
Friday, 07.04.2017 | Berlin, Estrel Hotel, Room V
09.50am – 10.00am | Lecture: Juliane Neumann “Workflow Analysis in the OR”

Session: Endo-Innovation CTAC / DGBMT | Arzt meets Ingenieur II
Saturday, 08.04.2017 | Berlin, Estrel Hotel, Room III
11.00 am – 11.15 am | Lecture: Prof. Andreas Melzer “Computer Assisted Intervention, Vision or Reality?”

Program

March 1, 2017 saw the start of the industry collaboration project IMPACT. Funded by the BMBF German Ministry of Education and Research, it belongs to the new ICCAS research group Life Support Systems. The research group is headed by Dr. Andreas Reske from the Center for Anesthesiology, Intensive Care, Emergency Medicine and Pain Therapy at the Heinrich Braun Clinic in Zwickau.

Research is being conducted on a mobile 3D imaging system based on electrical impedance tomography (EIT). This non-invasive procedure is designed to provide doctors at the scene of an emergency with visual and functional information on the ventilation of the patient’s lungs, similar to an ECG of the heart. Data is acquired and transferred via an electrode belt attached to the patient’s chest. ICCAS is joined in this project by the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at HTWK Leipzig University of Applied Sciences as well as the two commercial companies Fritz Stephan Medizintechnik GmbH and Gesellschaft für Intelligente Textile Produkte (ITP GmbH).

Their common goal is to develop a market-ready device certified under medical product legislation which substantially improves the monitoring of lung ventilation, particularly in intensive care and emergency medicine.

Auf dem diesjährigen 134. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Chirurgie wird Prof. Thomas Neumuth einen eingeladenen Vortrag zum Thema “Modellierung von chirurgischen Eingriffen” halten. Der Vortag findet in der Session “Surgical Data Science: Ein Weg zur ‘akademischen Emanzipation’ der Chirurgie?” der Sektion “Minimalinvasive, computer- und telematik-assistierte Chirurgie (CTAC)” statt.

Wann? Dienstag, 21.03.2017 | 14:36 Uhr – 15:54 Uhr
Wo? Internationales Congress Center München, Obergeschoss 1, Saal 11

In September 2016, ICCAS welcomed a Japanese delegation from the project SCOT (Smart Cyber Operating Theater). SCOT is a project being carried out by the Institute for Advanced Biomedical Engineering & Science at Tokyo Women’s Medical University. And similar to the German OR.NET project, it deals with the design and construction of an integrated operating room. In terms of their intentions and achievements so far, these two sister projects are globally unique.

ICCAS has now paid a return visit to Tokyo. During an important symposium on biomedical engineering, Prof. Thomas Neumuth, Stefan Franke and Erik Schreiber explained ICCAS’s work on open OR networking to participants from the Japanese industrial and research sectors. During a subsequent workshop, possible synergies between German and Japanese activities regarding the development of integration technologies for operating rooms were explored. Another item on the agenda was a visit to the SCOT demonstrator – a robot-based, integrated operating theater with intraoperative MRI optimized for the treatment of brain tumors. Afterwards, a concluding workshop was held at which the theme of device interoperability based on international standardization processes (especially in connection with IHE) was discussed with industry representatives.

The visit revealed several shared points of interest and ideas arguing in favor of future collaboration.

The European Modular Field Hospital (EU-MFH) project was officially launched on February 13 at the kick-off meeting attended by participants from nine European countries. ICCAS will play a key role in both the IT networking of the hospital and electronic patient records – areas represented by Vice Director Professor Thomas Neumuth, who is also on the steering committee.

The aim of this international project is to substantially improve medical care during European disaster relief missions. The various EU Member States are contributing their specific expertise in order to develop a mobile emergency field hospital which can be quickly set up and used to deliver treatment ranging from first response to full hospital care for a large number of patients. ICCAS is tackling the challenge of creating an efficient infrastructure and networking medical equipment and IT assistance systems. And it will also generate digital patient records intended to ease the workload on medical personnel from diagnosis to therapy and documentation.

This project is funded by the European Commission.
More information about the project and the partners

On March 1st, 2017, there will be a Lunch Symposium on Focused Ultrasound (FUS) at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR 2017)
organized by TRANS-FUSIMO (www.trans-fusimo.eu) and EUFUS (www.eufus.org). The event deals with updates on clinical applications of MRgFUS, MRHiFU and reaearch for FUS in moving abdominal organs.

Program

Venue:
Austria Center Vienna
Level 2, Room Z
Bruno-Kreisky-Platz 1
1220 Vienna, Austria

Date and Time:
Wednesday, March 1st, 2017
12.30 pm – 1.30 pm

Auf dem kürzlich in Dresden stattfindenden “Future Technologies” Science Match stellte Prof. Andreas Melzer die neuesten Themen des ICCAS und deren zukünftige Entwicklung vor.

An der Veranstaltung nahmen 100 Spitzen-Forscher der Technikwissenschaften aus dem Land Sachsen Teil, um in je 3 Minuten ihre neuesten Ergebnisse darzubieten.