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Each quarter, the Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF) hosts a free webinar to address a central patient safety topic. For this final webinar of the 2019-year, the PSMF is offering continuing medical education (CME) and continuing nursing education (CNE) credits, for free!* This virtual workshop session topic is around... 18 November 2019
XRHealth, formerly known as VRHealth, and Sheba Medical Center are partnering to create the first fully VR-based hospital, utilizing XRHealth's technology throughout each department. Image credit: Samuel Zeller at Unsplash The integration of virtual reality technology is part of the medical center's innovation efforts and commitment to digital health. Sheba... 15 November 2019
Every year the Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF) identifies the most influential advocates in patient safety and honors them with the Humanitarian Award at the annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit. This award recognizes leaders who have made significant progress in eliminating preventable patient deaths so that... 15 November 2019
SimGHOSTS 2019 had the largest attendance for their event and is destined to continue to grow. Editor Judith Riess reports. This year’s SimGHOSTS meeting held at Florida International University (FIU) Nicole Wertheim College of Nursing & Health Sciences was one of the largest they have had with 270 attendees... 15 November 2019
Clinical skills are the ‘touchpoint’ of any health service and are “any direct measurable actions undertaken by health care practitioners with patients" (Cachia 2008). They are key to the delivery of high quality, personalised care. Dr. Jean Ker, Dr. Andrea Baker, Dr. Michael Moneypenny and Lynne Hardie report. One... 15 November 2019
Millions of registered nurses face growing pressures on their professional and personal lives in the new decade due to increased demand for services, nursing shortages, and structural changes in the healthcare industry, according to a newly released survey of nearly 20,000 Registered Nurses (RNs) by AMN Healthcare. The survey,... 14 November 2019
Singapore's Coordinating Minister for Infrastructure and Minister for Transport, Mr Khaw Boon Wan, has unveiled a S$100 million Rail Manpower Development Package (RMDP). The RMDP initiative for railway workers is co-developed with the Public Transport Operators (PTOs) and the National Transport Workers’ Union (NTWU).It aims to expand the rail workforce... 14 November 2019
Area9 Lyceum has signed a partnership agreement in the Netherlands with EMC Performance to improve business results through continuous improved human performance. Under the agreement, EMC Performance has rights to distribute Area9 Rhapsode, the fourth-generation adaptive learning platform, across The Netherlands. The Area9 Rhapsode Learner interface and all learning content... 13 November 2019
Medopad and Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., one of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, have entered into a strategic partnership to validate, scale and potentially commercialise the ReVeRe platform as a novel digital biomarker for Alzheimer's disease (AD). Johnson & Johnson Innovation Limited facilitated the deal. The ReVeRe... 12 November 2019
Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd. and EBM Corporation have launched the “SupeR BEAT” surgical training simulator. This simulator can reproduce the beating of the heart with extreme accuracy using e Rubber, an innovative material that moves with electricity. Image courtesy of Toyoda Gosei The two companies have been collaborating since... 12 November 2019
CM Labs Simulations Inc. announced that Vortex Studio product demos, including enhanced driver training simulators, will be present on two partner booths at I/ITSEC 2019, which takes place from December 2-6 in Orlando, Florida. At the influential military tradeshow, CM Labs will exhibit the advanced-physical realism, ease of deployment, and... 11 November 2019
Empire Medical Training Inc. will mark its 21st anniversary at its annual Empire Aesthetics Meeting (EAM 19), December 6-8, 2019. Empire Medical Training will bring together top-of-their-field physician educators, who spearhead their own successful aesthetics practices, to share their knowledge and experience in aesthetics, and to provide training to... 6 November 2019
As the care management program Carelink CareNow takes the next step in ChristianaCare’s journey to provide optimal health and an exceptional experience to everyone it serves, it is changing its name to CareVio, with the tagline Linking Care. Improving Health. CareVio's Endia Jackson, medical assistant, and Janine Jordan, M.D.,... 5 November 2019
The VR/AR Global Summit in Vancouver is called “one of the year’s most anticipated conferences” by Forbes magazine. Halldale Group Editor Marty Kauchak ventured to the Canadian coastal city to mingle with the international cross-section of thought leaders and developers. 5 November 2019
FundamentalVR, developers of immersive training technology for the surgical community, has raised $5.67 million in Series A funding led by Downing Ventures with participation from Tern Plc, Epic Private Equity, Brighteye Ventures, Mayo Clinic, and Sana Kliniken. The round brings total funding to $9.3 million, allowing the company to... 4 November 2019
Written by Judith Riess, MTM editor-in-chief It was my privilege to attend HLTH, (pronounced health) held October 26th to 30th, 2019. This, their second conference, had 6200 attendees, almost 400 exhibitors, five tracks covering everything from bold new entrants and technologies in the healthcare field to communities at the... 4 November 2019
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and ANSYS are expanding their partnership to transform the future of engineering and research by enabling budding engineers to usher in the next industrial revolution with the opening of ANSYS Hall. The rapid transformation of manufacturing and product innovation – the next industrial revolution – is... 1 November 2019
Caravan Health announced the winners of this year’s Population Health Pioneer Awards, which are given annually to Caravan Health accountable care organizations (ACOs) and partners for their achievements in improving patient care. This year’s winners provided the highest quality health care to their communities and demonstrated a commitment to... 31 October 2019
OSF Ventures has joined four other organizations this week in supporting Series ‘A’ funding of $7.3 million for Washington, DC-based health care technology start-up Socially Determined, which offers data analytics to identify patients who face barriers to better health. The additional funding will support efforts to hire top talent... 31 October 2019
VirTra Inc. announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued the company two new patents: patent 10,438,503, which relates to VirTra’s TASER cartridge kits, and patent 10,436,539, which relates to mechanical malfunction of real firearms used in simulation training. Based on the parameters of patent 10,438,503, VirTra... 31 October 2019