Amanda Towner
Amanda Towner writes news articles for the Halldale Group’s website as well as CAT and MST Magazines. She studied English and Creative Writing at Stetson University, where she became a Sullivan Scholar for her work. Her writing covers several topics including journalism and storytelling, and is featured in several publications.
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SimiGon has commenced an Augmented Reality (AR) research programme (the Programme) with the Israel Air Force (IAF). The Programme will utilise SimiGon's R&D investments in the Virtual Reality (VR) and AR domains with respect to aircraft maintenance training by providing the invaluable ability to test and refine technologies in... 7 May 2019
Written by Andy Smith, MTM publisher All are aware that the operating room can be a high stress environment in which highly complex and intricate procedures are carried out by very talented and caring healthcare professionals. Despite good intent and high levels of skill the likelihood of a series of small... 7 May 2019
Last year, the 35th Medical Group implemented a new continuous process improvement peer review program, providing literal and figurative transparency and improving patient care for all Team Misawa members. Master Sgt. Fredrick Gumm, a 35th Surgical Operations Squadron sonographer, said the program allows technicians from other PACAF bases to... 6 May 2019
Last year, the 35th Medical Group implemented a new continuous process improvement peer review program, providing literal and figurative transparency and improving patient care for all Team Misawa members. Master Sgt. Fredrick Gumm, a 35th Surgical Operations Squadron sonographer, said the program allows technicians from other PACAF bases to... 6 May 2019
SonoSim’s new aorta and IVC real-patient scanning cases are available in the Aorta/IVC Core Clinical Module. This module will teach users how to perform ultrasonography of the aorta and inferior vena cava (IVC). It provides comprehensive, didactic knowledge assessment and hands-on training. Individuals can use color-flow and pulsed-wave Doppler... 6 May 2019
With the current software version for the Eyesi ophthalmic surgical simulator, VRmagic offers trainee ophthalmologists not only a detailed evaluation of their own surgical performance, but also a comparison with the training results of other users. This data processing option is made possible by networking the training systems, which... 6 May 2019
The Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF) and the Taiwan Patient Safety Culture Club (TPSCC) announced that four hospitals and one healthcare organization made a public commitment to helping eliminate preventable patient harm and death in hospitals by implementing the PSMF’s Actionable Patient Safety Solutions (APSS). The commitments were made... 6 May 2019
Centra’s Central Virginia Center of Simulation and Virtual Learning (also known as the Virtual Learning Center) was awarded full accreditation through the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH) on April 15, 2019. SSH Accreditation is a peer-reviewed evaluation of the healthcare simulation program. This accreditation examined the program's processes... 6 May 2019
Military Simulation & Training Magazine is happy to host the Joint-MMAST bi-monthly newsletter for May 2019. The goal of this publication is to share information about DoD Medical Modeling & Simulation entities, initiatives, research, products, services, best practices, lessons learned and so much more. 6 May 2019
Medical Training Magazine is happy to host the Joint-MMAST bi-monthly newsletter for May 2019. The goal of this publication is to share information about DoD Medical Modeling & Simulation entities, initiatives, research, products, services, best practices, lessons learned and so much more. 6 May 2019
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