About The ”Operating Room of the Future” (FOR)
The ”Operating Room of the Future” (FOR) is a collaboration between St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital and The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).
FOR is an arena for research and development which includes six operating rooms, one for each operating clinic. The operating rooms are unique “laboratories” made for the development, testing and clinical implementation of new technology and new treatment modalities.
The most important goal for FOR is research to obtain better and more safe patient care, more efficient logistics and better architecture of operating departments. Teaching is also an important task for FOR.
FOR is a center of competence for design of operating departments and today we have agreements with our industrial collaborators making it possible for the health care authorities of central Norway to realize such research and development.
The collaboration is multidisciplinary with close collaboration between clinicians, technologists, scientists and industry. FOR is a research platform where new prototypes can be developed and tested under safe conditions. The most modern medical equipment will be available at FOR.
FOR is also an example of how various professional disciplines and medical specialities can utilize the same equipment, areas and competence.
At FOR there is a possibility to perform a broad spectre of scientific work of multi-disciplinary character. Research is carried out by PhD candidates, scientists, students and clinicians. In addition several bachelor and master degrees are performed at FOR.
FOR is multidisciplinary and an arena for clinical research and development of medical technology with focus on; The patients of today - the technology of tomorrow.
Organization

Employees at FOR
Here you will find a list of our employees.
St. Olavs hospital FOR Research & Contracts
Read more about St. Olavs hospital FOR Research and Contracts on their own website.
FOR - NorMIT
Tomorrow’s surgery starts here. Better and safer treatment for the patient, with fewer complications and nights spent in hospital. Cost effective solutions for the National Health Service and for society as a whole. The expectations to the surgery of the future are great. Now NorMIT is offering high-tech operating rooms and equipment for those researching image-guided diagnostic and therapeutic surgery. Here researchers from across the country will be able to perfect the diagnostic and surgical practices of the future.
NorMIT
Annual reports and publications (PDF)
2019
2018
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2006
Newsletter FOR-NorMIT
2020
Research partners
NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology
NO-7491 Trondheim
Norway
Phone:
+47 73 59 50 00
E-mail:
postmottak@adm.ntnu.no
SINTEF
Thomas Langø
Research Director at SINTEF Health Research, Medical Technology
Mobile phone:
+47 909 62 913![Ring: +47 909 62 913]()
E-mail:
thomas.langø@sintef.no
Cooperating partners
NorMIT - Norwegian centre for Minimally invasive image guided Therapy and medical technologies
National Competence Centre for Ultrasound and Image guided Therapy
National Center fro Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery (NSALK)
NTNU Faculty of Medicine
NTNU's Strategic Area of Medical Technology
NTNU's Technology Transfer AS
CIRiS - Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Space
Center for Integrated Operations in the Petroleum Industry
Center for Safety and Human Factors
Oslo University Hospital - The Intervention Centre
SINTEF
Poster
2019
Poster ICPIC 2019
Poster ISES-ISIAQ 2019
Poster Haukom 2019
2018
Poster Mostrøm Nilssen
Poster Guangyu
In Norwegian
Operating room of the future in Norwegian