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SIMnext® reached an agreement with Gubener Plastinate GmbH to become the exclusive North American distributor of the von Hagens Plastination – Real Anatomy for Teaching line of anatomical specimens. Anatomy Education Intended for use in anatomy education, these products provide medical, nursing, and dental students with human anatomy specimens. Made... 7 February 2017
MINNEAPOLIS, MN, January 16, 2017 /24-7PressRelease/ — VitalSims announces its formal partnership with careLearning in which the medical education development company will provide continuing healthcare education content to the national learning management system provider. “We are pleased that the leadership at careLearning has evaluated our healthcare learning simulations and chosen... 2 February 2017
The National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) launched a new tool – NBME U – that helps health professions educators create reliable, high-quality assessments that evaluate student knowledge, skills and competencies. NBME says one of the most pressing challenges facing health professions educators is how to effectively assess their students,... 2 February 2017
Texas biotech startup SiMMo3D launched its simulated, 3D-printed organ models for surgical planning, biomedical research and education. With a $20,000 grant in seed funding provided by city-supported incubator D (THBD), SiMMo3D provides an affordable solution to meet the need for accurate replicas of healthy or diseased organs. SiMMo3D mimics the... 2 February 2017
Education Management Solutions (EMS), a provider of simulation management technologies, released its new SIMULATIONiQ™ VideoCapture™ mobile application at the International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH) today in Orlando, Florida. The SIMULATIONiQ VideoCapture application lets users record, playback and bookmark or annotate videos on any iOS, Android or Microsoft handheld device. It... 1 February 2017
Medical Training Magazine Interviews: Carol F. Durham MTM: If medical error is the third leading cause of death in the US what could and should be done to correct this? Carol Durham: I believe this is true and it is troublesome that this number is not decreasing even after the... 31 January 2017
Education Management Solutions (EMS), a provider of medical simulation management technologies, launched its new SIMULATIONiQ™ SimBrowser™ at the International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH) in Orlando. SIMULATIONiQ SimBrowser is a web-based application that lets users view live or recorded videos for all standalone SIMULATIONiQ products deployed within their institutions. It... 31 January 2017
Engineering & Computer Simulations (ECS) combined its experience in game-based training with the newest generation of virtual reality (VR) hardware and produced an interactive and immersive trainer it will premiere at the International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH) 2017 today. Medical professionals and conference attendees will strap on the... 30 January 2017
3D Systems is implementing virtual reality (VR) environments with its line of medical simulators that will allow users to practice surgical procedures within a virtual operating room for a realistic and immersive training session designed to enable better surgical preparation and team training. 3D Systems’ Virtual Reality Operating Room (VR... 30 January 2017
The nursing staff at Loma Linda University Medical Center’s adult and adult hospital and its Children’s Hospital started a journey of excellence designed to improve patient outcomes, elevate the nursing practice, and attract and retain the finest nursing staff. Inspired by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Magnet Recognition Program® , the... 30 January 2017
Education Management Solutions (EMS), a provider of simulation management technologies, is partnering with Panasonic R&D of America to bring the Panasonic 3D Multiview Anatomy System to the U.S. market. EMS will provide demonstrations of this immersive training tool at the International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH) in Orlando, Florida,... 30 January 2017
Engineering & Computer Simulations (ECS) has designed a series of medical simulations focused on increasing healthcare access while also containing costs, enhancing medical practitioners’ skills, and improving patient-doctor communications that it will showcase this week at the International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH) 2017. The four virtual medical simulations... 30 January 2017
In another in a series of articles on simulation center returns on investment, correspondent Marty Kauchak gained insights on the topic from Shriners Hospitals for Children — Canada, located in Montreal, Quebec. The Shriners Hospital invested in the development of an integrated Simulation Centre in its new flagship hospital... 30 January 2017
CAE Healthcare released the CAE VimedixAR, an ultrasound training simulator integrated with the Microsoft HoloLens, the world’s first self-contained holographic computer. CAE Healthcare is the first company to bring a commercial Microsoft HoloLens application to the medical simulation market. VimedixAR delivers a simulation-based training experience that lets learners interact and... 29 January 2017
HAMPSHIRE and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance, in partnership with University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, has committed to fund the first four years of a pre-hospital emergency medicine training programme for doctors in the Wessex Deanery, which includes Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. The programme is designed to... 27 January 2017
Imagine a heart the size of a room, each of its chambers a hallway you can walk through. Well, now surgeons at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center don't have to imagine that, it's reality...virtual reality. It looks like something out of a Sci-Fi movie or a video game. But, the... 27 January 2017
It is time to take a more critical look at the culture of medical training, and new steps are needed to assess and monitor student well-being, according to Stuart Slavin, MD, associate dean for curriculum and professor of pediatrics at Saint Louis University School of Medicine in Missouri. In a... 27 January 2017
Ola, a mobile app for transportation, has partnered with Apollo Hospitals, a healthcare services provider, to create a comprehensive medical program for driver-partners. Under this program, Ola drivers will be equipped to provide medical assistance in case of on-road emergencies. Driver partners will be also be able to opt for... 26 January 2017
Medical Training Magazine Interviews: Chad Epps MTM: What are learning technologies offering to health care and what is their impact on learning (education and training) across the community? Chad Epps: Our current learning technologies are transforming how we educate healthcare professionals. Technology-enhanced educational environments are more in line with adult... 26 January 2017
Every single second, voluminous amount of data is being generated from the healthcare and medicine industry, including the healthtech and wearables sector. Increasingly, the focus has been on how the data could be integrated and used to achieve our collective dream of enabling precision medicine i.e. detecting diseases well before... 25 January 2017