Context-aware medical technologies - relief or burden for clinical users?

The open, cross-vendor interoperability of medical devices is an enabling technology for the implementation of context-aware biomedical systems in daily clinical routine. The surgical working environment is both a valuable field of application and a particular challenge. A design of context-aware me...

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Published inCurrent directions in biomedical engineering Vol. 4; no. 1; pp. 119 - 122
Main Authors Neumuth, Thomas, Rockstroh, Max, Franke, Stefan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published De Gruyter 01.09.2018
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context-aware medical technology
Integrated operating room
surgical assistance systems
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Summary:The open, cross-vendor interoperability of medical devices is an enabling technology for the implementation of context-aware biomedical systems in daily clinical routine. The surgical working environment is both a valuable field of application and a particular challenge. A design of context-aware medical technologies that shows intelligent behaviour and ensures safe operation is demanding; thus implementations are yet limited to prototypes and specific surgical use cases. Many open research questions need to be addressed to empower context-aware medical systems to be a relief and not a burden for the clinical user.
ISSN:2364-5504
2364-5504
DOI:10.1515/cdbme-2018-0030