As mentioned in the 1st SMARTsurg newsletter, we have chosen a total of seven use cases on urology, cardiovascular and orthopaedic surgery. The surgical workflow of these surgical use cases is represented in a graphical format with the components of the surgical activity, for example, “Phases” of the surgery.

Elena De Momi participated in the 29th Conference of the international Society for Medical Innovation and Technology (SMIT) as invited speaker.

SMARTsurg’s Antonia Tzemanaki is discussing surgical robotics in the relaunch event of Bristol’s One Health Tech Hub, a network that supports and promotes women and other underrepresented groups in health innovation.

To attend, register at the eventBrite page.

Partners will meet on 15-16 February in Rennes, France for their 3rd plenary meeting, to discuss project progress and next steps.

The meeting will be hosted and organized by Optinvent.

The Sixth National Congress of Bioengineering (GNB 2018) will be held in Politecnico di Milano, on June 25-27, 2018.

Τhe Congress is the melting pot among biomedical research and clinical end users fully inserted in the framework of the most advanced international research in bioengineering, which combines the engineering background with the clinical one.

SMARTsurg overall conceptual architecture work performed includes an ongoing analysis of the state-of-the-art on relevant research projects, their similarities to SMARTsurg and their conceptual architecture.