An ultrasound-based navigation system for minimally invasive neck surgery.

Future minimally invasive neck surgery requires a navigation system adapted to the actual intra-operative bedding of the patient. The detection of the bedding-caused tissue shift is essential for a safe orientation for the surgeon new endoscopic operation procedures in neck surgery. It is essential to visualize the relation between important anatomic landmarks and operation instruments at any time.

Rotatable flexible neck-model for the evaluation of minimally invasive operation procedures with the help of an ultrasound-based navigation system.

Future minimally invasive neck surgery requires a navigation system adapted to the actual intraoperative bedding of the patient. The detection of the bedding-caused tissue shift is essential for a safe orientation for the surgeons' new endoscopic operation procedures in neck surgery. It is essential to visualize the relation between important anatomic landmarks and operation instruments at any time.

On feasibility and benefits of patient care summaries based on claims data.

Background: Electronic availability of health care claims data maintained by health insurance companies today is higher than the availability of clinical patient record data.

Objective: To explore feasibility of automatically generated patient care summaries based on claims data and its benefit for health care professionals (HCP), when no shared electronic health record is available.

Methods: Based on an existing claims data model for German health insurance companies, a transformation and presentation algorithm was developed.