Due to the rapidly evolving medical, technological, and technical possibilities, surgical
procedures are becoming more and more complex. On the one hand, this offers an …

Introduction Surgical workflow management is expected to enable situation-aware
adaptation and intelligent systems behavior in an integrated operating room (OR). The …

Purpose Surgical workflow management in integrated operating rooms (ORs) enables the
implementation of novel computer-aided surgical assistance and new applications in …

Modern integrated operating rooms (OR) become an enabling technology for new
applications in workflow-driven surgical assistance. For this purpose, surgical activities and …

A workflow-driven cooperative operating room needs to be established in order to
successfully unburden the surgeon and the operating room staff very time-consuming …

The establishment of modern workflow management technologies requires the integration of
dated devices. The extraction of the essential device data and usage time spans is a central …

Workflow management technologies begin to establish in the surgical domain with all kinds
of perioperative processes from the diagnosis and resource planning to the treatment …

A workflow-driven cooperative working environment needs to be established in order to
successfully unburden the surgeon and the OR staff from technical configuration and …

An essential aspect for workflow management support in operating room environments is
the description and visualization of the underlying processes and activities in a machine …

Surgical workflow management will make important contributions to future digital operating
rooms. It allows the automation of tasks like pre-configuration of medical devices or resource …