Abstract: The subject matter of the invention is a medical engineering device for use in minimally invasive surgery (MIS). Until now, minimally invasive surgery (MIS) as a device solution is isolated from the networked components of the operating room. The medical professionals are to be assisted in the device setting by an assistance system, by a better integration of the devices used for the MIS (e.g., insufflators, pumps, cameras, monitors) in the total surgery process as well as by a manufacturer-independent, open approach for information collection, information evaluation, and information-based process optimization. In the pre-operative phase already, before the actual surgical intervention, a multitude of information can be collected or acquired, in order to make them available in the intra-operative phase. At the same time, on this basis of data, a first individualization of the diagnostics or therapy to the respective patient can be performed.

Abstract: Subject matter of the invention is a medical engineering apparatus for storing medical data for information collection, information evaluation, and iterative information-based process optimization, which includes an automatic knowledge accumulation and provision by an automated and anonymized acquisition of data of networked components of the operating room for the minimally invasive surgery (MIS), i.e., e.g., insufflators, pumps, cameras, monitors, therapy instruments as well as by assessments of the post-operative treatment success linked with these data.