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Master students needed for EHR access project
– The majority of Norwegian hospitals have implemented electronic health records (EHR). The Interventional Centre (IVS) at Rikshospitalet has started a project to develop an automated translation service application to help patients understand the content of their EHR and thereby pave the way for better communication between health organizations and citizens. This is achieved by EHR text processing and cross mapping of medical terms to medical dictionary resources. The objective is to provide patients with electronic tools that automatically can display explanations of the medically complex EHR contents. As part of the development of the automated translation service, our team at IVS is conducting studies to gather data concerning patient understanding of Electronic Health Record (EHR) medical documents. These studies look at the types of information provided to patients by healthcare professionals, how patients understand received information, as well as how they use information from their own EHR documentation. We are conducting our evaluation study with thoracic surgery patients at Rikshospitalet.
One of the world's first Single Port Laparoscopic Liver Surgery Cases
– A surgical team lead by Bjørn Edwin MD, PhD, from the Interventional Centre and Bård Røsok MD, PhD from Department of Surgery Rikshospitalet performed a laparoscopic liver resection with the LESS device from Olympus this week, and became among the first in the world to use this approach on liver metastasis surgery. The tri-port system was used, and an image from the procedure can be seen to the right. The LESS device potentially leaves the patient with only one small and practically speaking invisible scar after surgery. Another procedure that recently has been performed with Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery (SILS from Covidien) technique is a cholcystectomy. This procedure was done by Elisabeth Hegstad MD, PhD, Bjørn Edwin and Arne Rosseland MD, PhD from the Interventional Centre earlier this spring. At the same time a similar procedure was performed for the first time in Denmark at Århus Hospital.
European endovascular aneurism repair (EVAR) Live Case Workshop
– On May 11 and 12th 2009 European interventional radiologists and vascular surgeons took part in a EVAR live Case Workshop at Rikshospitalet. The workshop was hosted by Department of Thorasic Surgery, and was opened by head of department professor Odd Geiran. On the first day the vendor's technical aspects and clinical experiences were presented and discussed. Kirsten Krohg-Sørensen, MD PhD, presented the TAA experiences and material from Oslo. On the second day two live EVAR cases were transmitted from the hybrid surgery/angio OR at the Interventional Centre to an auditorium at the hospital. Discussions took place between the OR and the auditorium during both procedures. The participants came from Sweden, Spain, Denmark, Norway, and Germany.

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