Radio Frequency Identification in the Operating Room: A systematic approach to test the feasibility of RFID in the operating room for surgical phase recognition

Hospitals are facing enormous financial pressure over the last years. To achieve lower costs, hospitals should invest in smart ways of working to make optimal use of the scarce capacities. A solution can be digitising processes in the hospital to prevent it from making more costs. In line with this founding, planning and scheduling of the...

Instrument Tracking in the Operating Room: Optimization of RFID tag performance

In hospitals, the duration of surgical procedures vary even when the same procedure is performed.<br/>Surgical end-time of the procedure is currently predicted using historical data about similar procedures,<br/>the procedure time and sometimes an indication of the operating surgeon is also taken into account.<br/>After the start of the...