The University of the Virgin Islands started construction on a new School of Medicine (SOM) on its St. Croix Campus. The school hopes to get preliminary accreditation this summer in advance of its intended July 2017 opening. The 33,000+ square-foot building, will house seminar rooms, anatomy/physiology and clinical skill labs,...
VirtaMed developed a virtual reality simulation for anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction. This new orthopedic training module for knee arthroscopy will be available for the VirtaMed ArthroS™ simulator. The VirtaMed simulates the actual procedure, and provides trainees with extensive, didactic reading material created by Dr. Robert A. Pedowitz. The simulator comes...
EOS imaging, a provider of 2D/3D orthopedic medical imaging, is partnering with Montreal-based Spinologics to develop a biomechanical simulation software dedicated to spine surgery planning. It will be integrated ito EOS imaging’s cloud-based, 3D planning software and will allow surgeons to plan treatment from EOS 3D dataset taking into...
Gaumard® Scientific Company is exhibiting the Victoria™ Tetherless Maternal and Neonatal Birthing Simulator this week at the International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH) at the San Diego Convention Center. Gaumard says this fully tetherless and wireless simulator already meets the rigorous requirements of obstetrics programs – and now takes...
Education Management Solutions (EMS), a provider of clinical learning management software solutions and audio-video systems, has released a distributed system architecture capability for its SIMULATIONiQ™ simulation management platform that lets an institution manage different SIMULATIONiQ™ solutions at satellite sites within a multi-campus or healthcare network from a central SIMULATIONiQ Enterprise...
EZOfficeInventory licensed its software for the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (Penn Nursing) to use in managing the logistics of its nursing simulation center – marking its entry into serving the medical simulation market. EZOfficeInventory is a cloud-based, asset tracking software that provides asset lifecycle management, audits and improves...
Maine Medical Center (MMC) opened The Hannaford Team Training Facility for Safe Patient Care – at its Bramhall Campus in Portland. The facility with both an adult and pediatric patient simulator offers medical teams including residents, nurses and therapists a place to practice actual emergency situations – such as code...
Corporations, Foundations and Associations – Fixing the Nursing Shortage. Lori Ponoroff, US News Editor, in the third article on the nursing shortage, describes initiatives of Associations, Corporations and Foundations to encourage nursing as a career choice. Associations, Foundations and Corporations are solving the nursing shortage problem in multiple ways as...
Blue Skies of Texas, a continuing care retirement community, has opened a nursing simulation lab for on-site training of its facilities’ nursing staff. The lab will be available 24-hours a day for nurses to hone their skills specific to geriatric care. Newly hired nurses to will be required to successfully...
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is an approach practitioners can use to encourage behavior change – helping a patient to devise a plan, stick to it, and feel like a participant in a collaborative relationship. MI has been proven effective across the spectrum of healthcare disciplines, but adoption is relatively low. So...