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Microsoft is partnering with Stryker to help redesign operating rooms:
For as much as many are focused on the gaming and consumer-level productivity potentialities of XR, much of the progress in the field is happening in other markets, like industry and medicine. To wit, Microsoft announced that it's partnering with a medical technology company called Stryker to use HoloLens to design better operating rooms.
In a blog post, Microsoft explained that, "Everything from lighting, to equipment, tools, and even patient orientation, varies depending on who is using the operating room at any given moment. Equipment placement is critical as it effects [sic] ergonomics, efficiency, and task load, all of which have the potential to burden staff and slow procedures." To design better operating rooms, the company said, heads of multiple surgical disciplines need to physically meet to solve these issues, and a 3D design environment can help them do so much more efficiently.
From the blog post:
You may not be aware of it, but surgical disciplines from general, to urologic, orthopedic, cardiac, and ear nose and throat (ENT) use shared operating rooms. These specialties have widely different needs when it comes to operating room configuration and setup. Everything from lighting, to equipment, tools, and even patient orientation, varies depending on who is using the operating room at any given moment. Equipment placement is critical as it effects ergonomics, efficiency, and task load, all of which have the potential to burden staff and slow procedures.
Today, for hospitals to successfully design operating rooms that will accommodate these various medical disciplines, a critical meeting must take place. In this meeting, the heads of each surgical discipline, along with their staff, are physically present to outline the desired layout and implementation needed to successfully complete their procedures. This is a complicated and time-consuming process where people and a complex array of technology and equipment are shuffled around to determine what goes where, and when, to see how it will all fit.
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 23 2017, @04:52AM
I've never given hospital or ER layout a lot of thought. (That despite the fact that I helped to build a hospital, believe it or not.)
OK, now that Runaway has established his credentials, let's listen to what he has to say!
But, there must be something called "standards" involved. Probably different, competing standards.
Um, probably? There must be? But are there? We still don't know, Runaway! Tell us!
A big city traumy unit probably uses a different standard than a small town hospital that operates on 10 - 100 patients per month.
Maybe, maybe not. Could be. I still don't know after reading this. The only thing I am sure of now, is that Runaway his own self don't know.
Still, there probably are standards out there,
Probably. Maybe. Could be, or maybe not. My god this has been a profound and insightful contribution to the discussion here! If only we had more Runaways and less of those know-it-all SJWs.
Stand by for hilarity from the Trump Operating Room!
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 23 2017, @05:20AM
Oh, the irony!
(like silvery, but with iron instead - now mod me insightful).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 23 2017, @05:39AM
Done. Probably. We have standards, maybe.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 23 2017, @03:11PM
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 23 2017, @06:39PM
Even Milo couldn't get away with pedophilia. What makes you think Runaway could?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 24 2017, @01:15AM
That's interesting. How many prepubescent members do we have on this site?