Understanding the Theator Homepage and Navigation – Theator

Once you successfully log in, you will be directed to the Theator Homepage. This serves as your main dashboard, providing a quick overview of your recent activity and easy access to your procedures.

The Homepage Dashboard

The Homepage is your starting point. It displays your most recently recorded procedures and gives you quick access to open and review cases. A search bar in the top navigation allows you to quickly find cases by procedure type, case ID, specific events, and participant names.

Sidebar Navigation

The platform uses a left sidebar for navigation. Here is a breakdown of each section:

Home

Your dashboard with recently recorded procedures and quick access to cases.

AI Assistant

A conversational AI assistant that can answer questions about your surgical data. Use it to ask about your cases, performance trends, and more. (NEW) See Getting Started with the AI Assistant for details.

Performance Profile

See Performance Profile for a full guide. Your personal analytics page with two views:

Surgeon — Performance metrics, case volume, and outcome data for individual surgeons.
Procedure — Analytics broken down by procedure type.

Cases

All case-related features are grouped here:

Search — Find cases using filters such as procedure type, date range, participants, and events.
Case Triage — Review and manage cases awaiting triage or classification. See Case Triage — Reviewing and Managing Cases for details.
Collections — Organize cases into custom groups based on themes like "Teaching Cases," "Follow Ups," or "Best Practices." See Intro to Collections for more.
Unlinked Recordings (admin only) — Manage recordings that have not yet been linked to a case in the system.
Upload Case — Manually upload a surgical video for processing and review.

Surgical Excellence

Tools for department-wide quality improvement:

Department Analytics — Aggregated performance metrics across your department.
Room Analytics — Analytics broken down by operating room.
Initiatives — Track and manage quality improvement initiatives.
Catalog — A library of best practices and reference materials. See Exploring Best Practices and the Catalog for more.

Clinical Research

Tools for research and data sharing:

Share Data — Share de-identified surgical data with approved research partners.
Research Assistant (admin) — AI-powered research tools for querying surgical data.

Rooms

Real-time operating room monitoring:

Room Status — See which operating rooms are currently active, with the option to join a live stream of an ongoing procedure.
Daily Schedule — View the planned operating room schedule for the day.

System (admin)

Platform configuration and monitoring:

Implementation — Configure SSO, EHR integrations, VPN settings, and manage Theator hardware units.
Monitoring — Sub-pages include Overview, Rooms, Units, and Recording Coverage for tracking system health. See System Monitoring Dashboard for details.

Organization (admin)

Manage your organization's venues, sites, and departments.

Each section of the sidebar is designed to streamline your workflow, whether you are reviewing your own cases, exploring departmental activity, monitoring live surgeries, or managing platform configuration.

What's Next?

Case page Overview — Explore the case page in detail
Getting Started with the AI Assistant — Learn how to use the conversational AI
Intro to Collections — Organize your cases into groups