Erasmus University Hospital Rotterdam, The Netherlands Integrates Lossless Video for Streamlined Operating Room Workflow

Introduction

The Erasmus University Hospital in Rotterdam is the largest and most prestigious hospital in the Netherlands. Their new building consisting of 26 new operating rooms were built to employ modern and upgraded technologies. The hospital decided to modernize their workflow to reduce the amount of paper, posters and other analog systems that were previously in use. The goal was to have a comprehensive, digital, smart way of integrating system effectively for staff to manage. For their new facilities, enhance surgical video monitoring was needed. For this to come to fruition, an innovative technology would be needed: Full HD video with capability to not only stream with no latency or lossless image quality to any surgical display but capable of switching video sources seamlessly. These copious requirements were successfully solved by Advantech, INTER and SigmaXG by Technolution with an exemplary co-creation solution.

The OR of the Future

By Co-working together with INTER, a software provider for multimedia video-over-IP streaming, a complete solution could be offered to the hospital. The AVAS NDcoders that encode and decode the video streams up until 4K resolution were created together with SigmaXG and is based on the technology of Technolution were it is directly integrated into the Advantech PAX surgical displays. This not only saves energy and space, but also reduces the complexity of the system and expedites the installation. The surgical displays of Advantech realize an accurate image representation of the source with no latency, simplifying and improving the quality of work for the doctors and staff in the operating room. Additionally. Several all-in-one computers were used to control and interact with staff in and outside the operating room. This enables an infection-free operating process. The door movement counting together with an intercom and multimedia system that integrates external streaming, the IoT hospital of the future is now a reality. The OR-flow dashboard by INTER additionally allows staff to meet and prepare before any operation and add different applications into the workflow while keeping track of tasks during the operation. This software also allows for recording and streaming sessions.

PAX-324

* Medical Grade: EN60601-1/EN60601-1-2
* Front IP-65 rated & top IPX1 for easy cleaning
* Multi-standard video support (NTSC, PAL, SECAM)

Solution

To realize the OR of the future an elaborate system has been created. The user interface presented by INTER can be controlled via touch and is the main interaction point of the users. This is connected by a switch that then speaks to the NDcoders integrated into the surgical displays. For recording a connection to the CMS server is realized. Several other options for streaming and archiving the solution are available, as seen in the diagram below.