3D Systems won an ECAT (Electronic Catalog) contract from the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency to deliver medical simulation products and accessories to U.S. military service branches. ECAT is an online ordering, distribution and payment system that gives Department of Defense and other federal customers access to multiple manufacturer and distributor...

Mimic Technologies’ consulting training subsidiary signed an agreement with HealthTrust to become a new supplier of robotic surgery simulation training products and robotic surgery training consulting services. Mimic Medical Education and Development (MimicMED), provides guidance in successfully implementing best practices to help fully develop new and existing robotic surgery training...

Southern Arkansas University opened its new Blue and You Health Sciences Simulation Center that is named in honor of the $149,128 grant from Arkansas Blue Cross Blue Shield’s Blue & You Foundation that funded much of the center’s equipment. The SAU Nursing Simulation Lab has four studios that are all...

A Boise State University team of nursing and gaming professionals developed a wearable technology that lets its nursing students practice complex simulations – at a lower cost than more standard training. The Virtual Reality Nursing Simulation with Custom Haptic System for Patient Safety is a wearable technology that lets students...

The University of Central Florida  (UCF) College of Medicine in Orlando will start a new Emergency Medicine residency program in July 2016 and is recruiting several residents to start this summer. The medical school’s newest graduate medical education (GME) training program is in partnership with Osceola Regional Medical Center and...

Surgical Theater, a provider of medical virtual reality, will present its first-of-its kind virtual reality surgical visualization platform for neurosurgery at the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference (GTC 2016), today, April 6, in Silicon Valley. The company says its VR medical visualization solution supports all elements of patient care from the...

The Autism Society of Central Texas produced a training video to help educate law enforcement officers and emergency responders how to approach, talk with and respond to people with autism.

The Autism Society of Central Texas produced a training video to help educate law enforcement officers and emergency responders how to approach, talk with and respond to people with autism. The Society worked with Red Media Group, Chester Security, parents and individuals with autism to create the free training video...

ChartWise Medical Systems, a provider of Computer-Assisted Clinical Documentation Improvement (CACDI) software, introduced ChartWise Advisory Services – training and support for its ChartWise 2.0 software users. ChartWise Advisory Services includes a range of options for clinical documentation specialists, hospital administrators and health care professionals to ensure they have the training...

Directors of general surgery residency programs believe flexible work-hour schedules for surgeons in training (residents) improve the continuity of patient care and resident training without compromising patient safety, according to findings of survey conducted in conjunction with the Flexibility in Duty Hour Requirements for Surgical Trainees (FIRST) Trial. The FIRST...