The performance of today’s business processes is strongly supported by information systems. Constant adaptation of the business processes to market requirements is achieved by business process analysis and optimisation.
Until now, it was not possible to analyse surgical and intraoperative interventions for optimisation potentials and to support their execution by information systems. Reasons for this were the high variability of surgical processes caused by patient-specific properties, lack of methods for structured description of surgical processes as well as missing data acquisition methods.
The use of intraoperative navigation during microscope cases can be limited when attention needs to be divided between the operative field and the navigation screens. Heads-up display (HUD), also referred to as augmented reality, permits visualization of navigation information during surgery workflow.