A Pervasive Computing System for the Operating Room of the Future

We describe a prototype Context Aware Perioperative Information System to capture and interpret data in an operating room of the future. The captured data is used to construct the context of the surgical procedure and detect medically significant events. Such events, and other state information, are used to automatically construct an Electronic Medical Encounter Record (EMR). The EMR records and correlates significant medical data and video streams with an inferred higher-level event model of the surgery. Information from sensors such as Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags provides basic context information including the presence of medical staff, devices, instruments and medication in the operating room (OR). Patient monitoring systems and sensors such as pulse oximeters and anesthesia machines provide continuous streams of physiological data. These low level data streams are processed to generate higher-level primitive events, such as a nurse entering the OR. A hierarchica...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2007
• Where: MONET
• Authors: Sheetal K. Agarwal, Anupam Joshi, Timothy W. Finin, Yelena Yesha, Tim Ganous
• Keywords: MONET 2007, Operating Room, Primitive Events, Significant Medical Data