Oslo University Hospital

The Intervention Centre is organized into six sections:

• Clinical Research,
• Radiology Research,
• Anaesthesia Research,
• Medical Cybernetics and Image Processing,
• Information and Communication Technology,
• Medical Treatment Aids

The IVS coordinates a dedicated test facility for research and industrial studies.Contracts and economy in industry-sponsored commissioned studies are handled by Inven2, the Technology Transfer Office of the hospital.

The Intervention Centre is mainly located at Rikshospitalet, one of the sites of Oslo University Hospital located in Oslo, Norway. We collaborate with regional, national, and international partners across Europe and beyond, and welcome industry partners from any geography who wish to develop, test, and validate medical technology in a Nordic university-hospital environment or require a unique transdisciplinary approach.

The infrastructure is used both for clinical and experimental work and includes: hybrid operating rooms equipped for image-guided and minimally invasive procedures (CT, MRI, angiography, ultrasound); preclinical trial, prototype evaluation and simulation environments for surgical workflow and human-factors testing; and clinical wards and outpatient settings at Oslo University Hospital available for clinical studies in collaboration with other hospital departments.

Our core competence is the combination of medicine and technology under one roof. The Intervention Centre’s multiprofessional staff includes surgeons, radiologists, anaesthesiologists, nurses, biomedical and clinical engineers, computer scientists, physicists – many of them at PhD level.

Key areas of expertise include minimally invasive and image-guided therapy; medical image processing, segmentation, and AI; visualization for surgery planning and surgical navigation; wireless sensor networks; focused ultrasound; medical cybernetics; clinical study design and execution.

The Intervention Centre is certified to ISO 9001:2015 and since 1996 has accumulated nearly 30 years of experience in clinical innovation.

We deliver a broad spectrum of services covering the full innovation process – from early idea evaluation and feasibility testing, through preclinical and simulation studies, to first-in-human and clinical trials.

Specific services include: needs assessment and clinical feedback in the idea stage; preclinical testing in our experimental facilities; usability and human-factors evaluation; technology development and integration support (AI, image processing, AR/MR, sensor systems); facilitation and execution of clinical trials and clinical documentation studies;access to a multidisciplinary network of clinicians, engineers, and researchers.