OR.NET e.V.

OR.NET e.V. is a registered association bringing together industrial specialists, clinical staff and researchers, all intent on realizing open and cross-manufacturer integration of medical technology in the OR, intensive care units and other areas of acute medicine. We want to establish safe and dynamic device-to-device communication using state-of-the-art information and communication technology. Medical equipment is automatically integrated in a device network within the OR, the ICU or the emergency room via plug-and-play.

Following 15 years of research, the enormous relevance of our approach became transparent in the OR.NET project funded by the German Ministry BMBF (until 2016), not least through the participation of more than 50 directly funded project

partners and an equal number of associated project partners. The technical outcome of this project was made public in 2018, in the form of three IEEE 11073 SDC standards enabling manufacturers to make their products integrable.

Establishing these SDC standards is a declared goal of our association. In addition to prominent publicity work, it identifies and discusses key topics in individual workgroups. Topics currently being addressed through the set-up of demonstration and test centres include requirements for the open network regarding approval, development and initial operation.

With integrated medical systems we are creating a fundamental prerequisite for achieving safety, high quality and the best patient care.

We enable our members to implement openly networked, cross-manufacturer systems by driving forward the standardisation process and developing approval strategies.

The ever-increasing number of computer-based devices and instruments in the OR and hospital is leading to a need to integrate medical equipment, systems and software solutions in an overall infrastructure. The wide variety of devices and the information they entail can be integrated within this connected set-up via dynamic networking to provide new and innovative functions.
The overriding goal of technical developments in medicine should be the improvement of quality and safety in healthcare.

The safety and usability of networked medical products and IT systems represent both a key quality criterion and an element of risk management. Consideration of this aspect is rapidly gaining prominence within the field of risk management for medical products due to increasingly complex technology and the growing complexity of human-machine interaction in the medical environment.

• long-term monitoring of OR.NET standard (ensuring sustainability)
• continuity of collaboration (across Germany) after OR.NET
  – maintenance of workgroup structures
  – joint workshops
  – exchange of data and information
• hosting of IT infrastructure incl. free tools
• promotion, initiation and support of research projects in line with our association mission
• services
  – consultations and general training for medical product developers, manufacturers, operators and users, as well as specific training during the development, approval, manufacture and launching of new medical products, also and particularly during the procurement of suitable service providers

• operation of test centres and laboratories on various sites 
• constructive cooperation with national and international organisations and associations, as well as information exchange and cooperation with experts in Germany and abroad
• support of scientific and educational events
• publicity work to promote the goals of our association and the topics set out above
• creation of information and communication platforms for association goals related to specific topics

Aesculap AG

AimValley

Auriga Inc.

B. Braun Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG

BEGER DESIGN

BOWA-electronic GmbH & Co. KG

Carl Zeiss Digital Innovation GmbH

Conspecton GmBH

COPRA System GmbH

Drägerwerk AG & Co. KG, Lübeck

Erbe Elektromedizin GmbH

ERNW Research GmbH

Fresenius Vial SAS

Hochschule Reutlingen, Fakultät für Informatik, Forschungsgruppe Computerassistierte Medizin Camed

Ilara GmbH

Innovationszentrum für computerassistierte Chirurgie – ICCAS

Institut für Angewandte Mikroelektronik und Datentechnik – IDM, Uni Rostock

Institut für Softwaretechnik und Programmiersprachen – ISP, Uni Lübeck

Andreas Besting

Anton Keller

Jasmin Dell Anna-Pudlik

John Rhoads

Malte Asseln

Michael Onken

Peter Knipp

Reiner Kunz

Sebastian Geyr

Stefan Schlichting

Wolfgang Kaisers