News Item – Hospital black box project aims to reduce OR errors

Three years ago, a Toronto hospital installed its first black box in an operating room. Now the doctor behind that project is bringing the devices to hospitals in Ottawa.

Teodor Grantcharov has been testing his boxes — made up of cameras and microphones that record each move of the scalpel and every word spoken in the operating room — for about three years.

“We want to understand things that we do well and understand things we don’t do so well,” said Grantcharov, a professor of surgery at the University of Toronto and a staff surgeon at St. Michael’s Hospital.

Full article at: CBC News