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The Intervention Centre
- a common toolbox for innovation, clinical research and development...

The Intervention Centre is a multiprofessional clinical research and development department in the Technology and Innovation Division at Oslo University Hospital.

We collaborate with internal hospital departments and external academic and industry partners to develop healthcare sevices of tomorrow

About Us

Key Performance Indicators 2023

25 Level 2 Publications

71 Level 1 Pubilcations

6 PhD

Publications

Organization
The intervention Centre is organized as a department in the Technology and Innovation Division at Oslo University Hospital in Oslo, Norway. The Centre provides a shared resource for basic- and clinical research groups inside and outside Oslo University Hospital. All research groups have the same access to the advanced equipment, infrastructure and necessary competent staff needed for research and development of new methods. The Centre is organized in a matrix model with six sections.

Deliveries
The Centre’s R&D tasks are:
• Development of new treatment methods
• Development of new treatment strategies
• Comparison of established and new treatment methods
• Studies of social, economic, and organizational consequences from implementation of new methods

To perform this type of studies the Centre has established an infrastructure that facilitate four result dimensions:
1. Clinical Trials ( with clinical outcome endpoints)
2. Patient experience studies (including QOL and qualitative methodology)
3. Health Economy studies (cost/efficacy for patients, hospital and society)
4. Organizational consequences from new methods

Main focus for research are:
• MRI-guided interventions and surgery
• Radiology guided interventions and surgery
• Use of robot systems and simulation
• IT solutions for big data processing and artificial intelligence • Telecommunication and sensor technology • Radiology and image processing
• Navigation systems for interventions and surgeries
• CT-guided interventions and surgeries In addition to scientific project industry sponsored studies for testing of new medical devices are performed.

Infrastructure and resources
The Centre’s infrastructure and resources includes:
1) Access to high end equipment in operating rooms dedicated for technological-, preclinical- and clinical research for internal and external projects.
• Two multi modal/hybrid angio/videofluoroscopy operating rooms
• Two videoscopy operating rooms with mobile C-bow
• One operating room surgical microscope and navigation equipment adjacent to MRI
• Two multi modal/hybrid operating rooms with possibilities for intra operative CT
• One preclinical operating room The multi modal operating rooms are unique and not available elsewhere in the hospital. Thus, the Intervention Centre offers capacity for treatments where this unique combination of modalities is required.
2) Specially trained staff (medical specialists, nurses, radiographers, engineers, project leader) to handle the complex infrastructure in technological and research-based settings.
3) IT infrastructure for data extraction of data from all operating rooms.