Fremont Health and Midland University opened a new million-dollar Simulation Laboratory at Freemont Health that will provide hands-on learning for nursing students, Fremont Health staff and healthcare professionals in the Freemont, Nebraska area. The simulation lab offers a practice environment that features human-patient manikins let nursing students practice skills, techniques,...
McLaren Flint Healthcare, a large community hospital affiliated with Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, is using 3D System’s Simbionix ARTHRO Mentor simulator to assess the performance of Orthopedic Surgery and Sports Medicine residents before allowing them to perform surgery. The residency is a 5-year program where the...
Airbus Helicopters completed its service provision buildup of the UK’s Military Flying Training System (UKMFTS) contract, and now, after delivering 29 Helionix-equipped H135s and three Helionix, hoist-equipped H145s earlier this year, is fully embedded at Royal Air Force (RAF) Shawbury and RAF Valley, supporting Ascent’s Training delivery from modernized...
PLEXSYS released version 4.5 of its sonomarc and PLEXComm communications software that includes two new products, Operator Link and Chat Link, and a major upgrade to its Instructor Link product. Several modeling improvements were also made, increasing realism by adding Fresnel zones and Weather effects. With text chat, PLEXSYS...
Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim), a developer of advanced simulation and training software with origins in video game development, released Gears Studio, an integrated development environment that streamlines the creation of modular software products. Gears Studio helps developers focus their time on feature implementation. It guides them through component development...
GE Healthcare made an equity investment in SonoSim, a provider of ultrasound education and training. The partnership will offer enhanced education services across medical disciplines from women’s health and cardiology to point of care and primary care. As ultrasound continues to grow in all medical fields, GE Healthcare says it’s...
Medic-CE, a provider of accredited online continuing education for emergency medical services (EMS) and fire professionals, launched Resiliency training that teaches first responders how to work through the trauma they experience in the field.
National Park College (NPC) in Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas opened a nursing clinical simulation lab with the help of a $500,000 donation to the school last year and a $100,000 pledge per-year for three years for financial-aid packages for nursing students from CHI St. Vincent Hot Springs. The sim lab...
Artificial intelligence (AI) driven by machine learning (ML) algorithms is a branch in the field of computer science rapidly gaining popularity within the healthcare sector. However, graduate medical education and other teaching programs within academic teaching hospitals across the U.S. and around the world have not yet come to...
MedaPhor Group, an ultrasound software and simulation company, installed a ScanTrainer OBGYN and General Medical simulator training platform at the new Ultrasound Training Academy at Central Middlesex Hospital in London, UK for the London North West Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH). The Academy was designed to ease growing ultrasound training pressures...