OR of the Future (ORF) Initiatives
MGH - Operating Room of the Future (ORF)
The first CIMIT Clinical Innovation Laboratory is the award winning MGH Operating Room of the Future (ORF) that opened in August 2002. This collaborative effort has provided some impressive results and continues to serve as a model for implementing and running a “living laboratory” in the clinical space and for establishing multi-industry partnerships. Areas of research include:
- Real-time workflow process improvement including parallel processing,
novel IT architecture, asset management and patient tracking solutions;
- Clinical decision support systems combining patient-specific data with
intelligent devices to create a perioperative zone of safety;
- Leading a national initiative on technology integration and open Plug & Play
standards for medical devices; and
- Measuring outcomes to inform “evidence-based” OR facility design.
Learn More: Project Site Medical Device Plug-and-Play Website
BWH - Brigham Advanced Surgical Innovation Suites (BASIS)
Through CIMIT grants and facilitation, Dr. Raphael Bueno and a multi-disciplinary team have designed and implemented the OR of the Future concept at the BWH. This four pod (OR Suites) state-of-the art “surgical laboratory” will serve as:
- Comprehensive test platform for new device and procedural innovation
- Integrative approaches to diagnostics and surgical techniques
- Improved method of tracking surgical specimen flow, development of virtual
digital interactions between surgeon and pathologist and the integration
of genomic and proteomic techniques for decision making in surgery.
Learn More: "BWH Achieves World First in Thoracic Surgery" (BWH Pike Notes 12/9/05)
BWH - Advanced Multimodality Image Guided OR (AMIGO)
Under leadership of Dr. Jolesz, an “Advanced Multimodality Image-Guided Operating Room (AMIGO)” is being planned at Brigham and Women's Hospital. The AMIGO project will incorporate multiple imaging modalities in one OR, and will serve as a test bed to determine which combinations of imaging modalities and surgery/therapy are optimal. The planned system will include a 3-T MRI, a PET-CT system, as well as x-ray, ultrasound, and optical imaging capability.
Learn More: Project Site