To satisfy patients, fulfill demands of surgeons and operation theater staff and to proof a well-functioning operation theater an excellent management is needed. Operation theatre needs a great quantity of resources 4 to maintain a working function in any hospital . It’s always been a difficult and daring procedure, to improve the function and effectiveness of an operation theater in such a hos...

This paper presents an overview of our research in medical high-tech computing and robot-based surgical intervention in cranio facial surgery defining an operation theatre of the future. Our overall goal is to provide improved operation methods and workflows including higher quality, increased safety and more economy due to shorter operation time and less postoperative treatment. Our operation ...

Building capture and access (C&A) applications for use in the operation theatre differs greatly from C&A applications built to support other settings e.g. meeting rooms or classrooms. Based on field studies of surgical operations, this paper explores how to design C&A applications for the operation theatre. Based on the findings from our field work, we have built the ActiveTheatre, a C&A protot...

Medical treatments planning and surgical operations scheduling are substantial elements of hospital management. Operations theatre scheduling deals with assignment of limited hospital resources (rooms, doctors, nurses, etc.) to jobs (patient treatments, surgery, etc.) over the time in order to perform tasks according to their needs and priorities, and to optimize usage of hospital resources [7]...