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17.06.2014

headline-marker student! bringt digitales Patientenmodell auf den Punkt

17 June 2014

In the June 2014 edition of the university paper student!, the research group Digital Patient- and Process Model explains how to cope with the flood of information in medicine. Backgrounds and exciting future prospects for the research on the Digital Patient Model are given and statements about the decision making competence between physician and computer are made.

Link to the article (only available in German)

headline-marker ICCAS füllt Titelgeschichte des BMBF-Magazins

17 June 2014

“Demigods with Bytes” is the title of the cover story in the current edition of the magazine “Unternehmen Region” of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, certainly referring not only to the physicians who benefit from the research activities at ICCAS. In the impressive report about the becoming and work of the Innovation Center Computer Assisted Surgery, founding members, researchers, clinical users and also spin-offs tell about their experiences and achievements in the field of digital medicine – suitable to the motto of the ministry’s science year 2014: “The Digital Society”.

Link to the report, from page 30 (only available in German)

13.06.2014

headline-marker Posterbeitrag war Besuchermagnet auf der BHI 2014

12 June 2014

Dr. Stefan Bohn took part in this year’s International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI). With his poster contribution on the Treatment Planning Unit (TPU) he presented a convincing example of improvements in the quality of healthcare by the progress in medical informatics, there.

The interest of the international trade visitors was great, all the more the TPU has been used in the head and neck tumorboard at the Leipzig University Hospital since more than a year. It is continuously enhanced by the ICCAS. Dr. Bohn gladly answered all questions, also to inquiries about the transferability of the system to other clinical departments, such as urology or gynecology. Due to the generic design of the information system oncoflow (developed at ICCAS) the transferability has been part of the processing from the very beginning. A later application to other disciplines is quite possible.

The conference underscored the competitiveness of the ICCAS – research topics at international level. In the fields of data integration, interoperability and digital patient model ICCAS is at the fore. The developments not only seek better ways to handle complex information and data in healthcare, but also aim at the support of clinical diagnostics and treatment, through to decision- making processes.

Link to the conference contribution

10.06.2014

headline-marker ICCAS Videopräsentation fällt aus dem Rahmen

Astonishment, curiosity, skepticism. Mario Cypko’s video presentation on patient-specific therapy model caused various reactions at this year’s annual meeting of the German Society of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Head and Neck Surgery.
In this video, the computer scientist took the clinicians on a virtual journey from the tumor board of the Leipzig University Hospital into the ICCAS think tank, where the research of the DPM group on decision support systems has been running at full speed since over one year.
Cypko not only reaped the predicate “most spacy video” from the session management, with his abstract presentation he also raised questions about meaning, use and capabilities of such systems and made the participants curious for future developments.

Matthäus Stöhr, assistant physician at the ENT-department of the Leipzig University Hospital and former teammate of the DPM group, also aroused great interest among the conference participants with his lecture on modeling and support of therapeutic decision-making processes on the example of laryngeal cancer. Once again it became apparent that the direct exchange between researchers and users is fundamental. Particularly against the background of the growing amounts of information to the patient and his disease, the previous research results and future prospects to the digital patient model where met with enthusiasm.

The video about the digital patient model, which arose in the course of the video competition “Fast Forward Science”, is to be seen at the ICCAS Research Video Journal under: ICCAS – Digital Patient Modeling Group – Mario Cypko.

05.06.2014

headline-marker Los ICCASianos – vom Schreibtisch auf die Laufstrecke

5 June 2014

Last Wednesday, the Los ICCASianos could feel the fun of team sport at this year’s Leipzig Corporate Challenge. After work the nine ICCAS employees went on the running course around the Red Bull Arena. In the wake of about 10 000 participants, personal records were cracked and super results for the company rankings of the University Medical Center were achieved. Fastest ICCASiano is computer scientist Erik Schreiber. He mastered the 5 km long course in 20 minutes and 55 seconds.

02.06.2014

headline-marker Gastwissenschaftler Dr. med. Patrick Dubach verabschiedet sich mit Kolloquiumsvortrag

On Thursday, 5 June 2014, Dr. Patrick Dubach will give his last colloquium lecture as a visiting scientist at ICCAS. The ENT specialist has been completing a one-year fellowship at the ICCAS and the ENT-Clinic and Polyclinic of the University Hospital Leipzig since July 2013, as part of his habilitation request. Subsequently, Dubach will return to Switzerland and fulfill his role as Head of the University Outpatient Clinic, ENT Department, Inselspital Bern.

The employees of ICCAS thank Dr. Dubach for the good and pleasant cooperation and wish the Swiss colleague a successful conclusion of the habilitation procedure and all the best for the future!

Invitation to the lecture

20.05.2014

headline-marker Connecting Healthcare IT 2014 – hochklassige Informationsquelle und Kommunikationsplattform

conhIT LogoFrom 06 to 08 May 2014, the conhIT – Europe’s largest and most important trade fair for information technology in healthcare – convened again numerous actors of the healthcare industry. Several ICCAS employees took the opportunity to gain information about new products and developments and to get into technical discussions with fellow researchers, producers and operators at the industrial fair and congress.

The DPM group attended workshops on data protection and patient rights – basics that need to be taken into account when handling electronic data. Furthermore, events were visited that gave the latest knowledge about systems that allow optimal treatment decisions. Self-learning computer systems with the inclusion of human language will play an important role in future health care.

For the lighthouse project OR.NET – where ICCAS works on therapy and information processing standards – the conhIT provided a successful platform to present the latest research results and to stimulate the interest of prospective partners. The second public status symposium informed about the developments in relation to the OR.NET integration architecture, communication protocol and current data model.

06.05.2014

headline-marker „So geht sächsisch“ in der Wissenschaft – ICCAS als Teil der Imagekampagne des Freistaates Sachsen

Since last autumn, the Free State of Saxony has attracted attention with a new international promotion campaign under the slogan “Simply Saxony.” This presents special benefits and advantages of the land on the basis of prime examples.

The ICCAS can now be found in the online communication offensive as “Saxon maker” in the field of science. Professor Jürgen Meixensberger – head of the ICCAS board – explains among other things the vision of the Surgical Cockpit, there. Sandra von Sachsen – research associate in the project Structural Mechanical Defect Classification and Modelling of the Cervical Spine (HWS) – not only fits perfectly into this campaign by her name, but allows a look over her shoulder while her scientific work.

Link to the report: WE PRESENT: SIMPLY SAXONY.

More about the HWS-project

03.04.2014

headline-marker Medizinische Informatik für Mädchen – ICCAS gibt Einblicke zum Girls‘ Day am 27. März 2014

What exactly does a medical computer scientist do and what features needs a prospective computer science student? These questions served as an introduction to an informative afternoon at the ICCAS for the participants of the Girls ‘ Day at the Leipzig University.

For the seventh time, ICCAS-researchers welcomed interested grammar school girls to get a taste of science in their premises at Semmelweisstraße. There, a lot of research to touch and to try was provided. The demonstrator OR came up with surgical navigation device, surgical milling tool and phantom skull. In addition, the ninth graders experienced how surgical staff can learn surgical tools and their application in the operating room without an instrument table, only by using a tablet. On mutual recordings with a thermal imaging camera the girls found out, which body areas are better supplied with blood and thus particularly well suited for skin transplants.

The female pupils obviously had a lot of fun during their tour through the research center and were quiet amazed about the variety of applications of medical computer science in the field of computer-assisted surgery. But also for the scientists it was something special to arouse the curiosity of the prospective students via their research projects on the premises and to give advices for future career choices.

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headline-marker ICCAS-Projekt mit Innovationspreis-IT „Best of 2014“ ausgezeichnet

Once a year, the Initiative Mittelstand honors outstanding IT solutions that have a high value of benefit for small and medium-sized enterprises. This year, the IT system oncoflow – developed at ICCAS – could convince the renowned jury of over 100 scientists, industry experts and specialized journalists and was awarded the Innovationspreis-IT “Best of 2014” in the category of Health IT.

oncoflow is a project of the research group Model-based Automation and Integration (MAI), which is practiced in close collaboration with ENT-physicians at the Leipzig University Hospital. The new information system has already been supporting the treatment of patients with tumors in the head and neck region for one year. Since, it has proved to be a great help for the administration, provision and utilization of patient and process data.

oncoflow creates important common interfaces between various clinical information sources. All relevant data of a patient are centrally stored and available in the form of newly structured electronic patient records. These are the basis for personalized treatments and the support of decision-making processes in the weekly tumor conferences. In addition, the integration of oncoflow into the whole clinical working process enables a further use of all present informations. This helps to facilitate the daily administrative tasks.

oncoflow means a milestone in regards to individualized diagnosis, therapy and more efficient workflows. Now it belongs to the outstanding IT products of this year in the German-speaking area.

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