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Shell has announced that its Digital Realities team will work with EON Reality to adopt mainstream Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) solutions across the global business. This led to extensive testing of Virtual Trainer (VT), part of the EON Reality connected learning AVR platform. The AVR Platform provides...   22 July 2019
Shell has announced that its Digital Realities team will work with EON Reality to adopt mainstream Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) solutions across the global business. This led to extensive testing of Virtual Trainer (VT), part of the EON Reality connected learning AVR platform. The AVR Platform provides...   22 July 2019
ComplianceIQ is hosting Nurse to Nurse Bullying - A Sepsis in Healthcare - SHRM & HRCI Accredited, a 60-minute live webinar, on Tuesday, 23 July 2019, from 10:00 AM PDT to 1:00 PM EDT. This webinar explored the phenomena of nurse to nurse bullying, examining why it happens, who...   22 July 2019
The American College of Surgeons (ACS) launched its new Geriatric Surgery Verification (GSV) Program at the ACS Quality and Safety Conference. This new surgical quality improvement program introduces 30 new surgical standards designed to systematically improve surgical care and outcomes for the aging adult population. The GSV Program provides...   22 July 2019
Leaders from the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and Harvard Business School’s (HBS) Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness gathered on Capitol Hill to announce a new partnership aimed at improving health care value. The two organizations announced a new program to help hospitals and surgical practices improve patient outcomes...   22 July 2019
A new report published by CITB (Construction Industry Training Board) shows that construction can reap major rewards from digital skills and technology, but only if it takes decisive action in the next five years.   19 July 2019
After a patient was admitted with a complex fracture, the Craniomaxillofacial Surgery unit at Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya, Israel, headed by Prof. Samer Saruji, initiated a surgical planning workflow using 3D Systems’ surgical planning software. The 22 year-old female suffered from a left orbital fracture after falling from...   19 July 2019
WHO/Tania Seburyamo Primary screening includes temperature measurement and visual observation of travelers to look for signs of illness. The World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, declared the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) a Public Health Emergency of International Concern...   18 July 2019
Osso VR is being incorporated into surgical training programs worldwide and is now used by more than 20 teaching hospitals and eight medical device companies in 11 countries. Focused on increasing access to hands-on training that improves patient outcomes and increases the adoption of higher value medical technology, Osso...   18 July 2019
The DiSTI Corporation announced that STARK Learning, headquartered in the Netherlands, is the newest VE Studio Certified Solutions Partner. STARK Learning specializes in creating innovative digital learning solutions for industrial, energy and education sectors. According to Milan Vogelaar, managing director of STARK Learning, “we are experiencing growing demand from enterprise...   17 July 2019
The DiSTI Corporation announced that STARK Learning, headquartered in the Netherlands, is the newest VE Studio Certified Solutions Partner. STARK Learning specializes in creating innovative digital learning solutions for industrial, energy and education sectors. According to Milan Vogelaar, managing director of STARK Learning, “we are experiencing growing demand from enterprise...   17 July 2019
Laerdal Medical and B-Line Medical announced Laerdal Medical’s acquisition of B-Line Medical. Building on an initial partnership signed in the fall of 2018, this acquisition will accelerate and expand the integration and scope of their product lines. With the acquisition, B-Line Medical will become part of the global Laerdal...   17 July 2019
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued U.S. Patent 10,354,559 for SynDaver’s cricothyroidotomy (Cric) and nasogastric (NG) tube simulation device. The patent covers the design and manufacturing of SynDaver’s Adult Cric Trainer, which is a realistic surgical and procedural training platform for cricothyrotomy. The device is a multi-use...   17 July 2019
CEO Michael Wallace and Dr. Jack Pottle in front of 10 Downing Street Oxford Medical Simulation (OMS) was invited to Number 10 Downing Street in recognition of its work to improve care for people with diabetes. The NHS England diabetes team are working with Oxford Medical Simulation to train...   17 July 2019
OSF HealthCare and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s (U of I) Grainger College of Engineering are growing their partnership to create the future of community wellness and health care by harnessing creativity and applying it to social and behavioral health problems, many of which are key to improving...   17 July 2019
Miami Dade College (MDC) opened its new Center for Learning, Innovation and Simulation, a state-of-the-art facility designed to provide students with the training needed to excel in today’s fast-changing health care industry. The ribbon-cutting ceremony took place July 16, at the Medical Campus in the heart of Miami’s Health...   17 July 2019
Central Michigan University’s (CMU) College of Medicine is expanding its footprint into southwest Michigan through a new affiliation with Spectrum Health Lakeland. College of Medicine students now will be able to complete their clinical rotations at Lakeland Medical Center in St. Joseph and Lakeland Hospital Niles, along with other...   17 July 2019
The partnership will involve Mission Room supplying technology to enable NTAR to capture 360-degree videos of real world situations, produce immersive training media, and let students experience this in a 3-meter cube Mission Room Arena system.   16 July 2019
Education Management Solutions LLC (EMS) announced a groundbreaking new virtual gaming platform for pharmacy and clinical therapeutics education. Developed in partnership with Professor Stephen Duffull of the University of Otago School of Pharmacy, New Zealand, SimPHARM gives pharmacy, medical and nursing schools the framework they need to help students...   16 July 2019
In 2018, Inovus Medical launched the bozzini Hysteroscopy Simulator, the first training device that delivers close-to-life, affordable, turnkey hysteroscopy simulation. The launch was supported by EIT Health through a €50,000 Headstart award. Soon after its entry to the market, it became evident that there was an opportunity for Inovus...   15 July 2019