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The Bennathan Lecture, the first of a reoccurring annual lecture within the Washington, D.C. area, offers an opportunity for MedStar Health leadership, caregivers, board and community members, and other key stakeholders, to learn about the latest developments in patient safety and the role that each of us has to... 18 April 2019
The Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation has joined Vizient as a member with the goal of aligning and accelerating cost and quality performance. As part of this new agreement, The Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation will join Vizient's group purchasing organization with the expectation of a decrease in its... 18 April 2019
A research group based at KEMRI-Wellcome Trust – Kenya and Oxford University have developed a free smartphone app for training health workers called LIFE, which was launched during the Kenya Paediatric Association 2019 annual conference in Mombasa, Kenya. The Life-saving Instruction for Emergencies (LIFE) smartphone app uses interactive 3D... 17 April 2019
Airway Management Education Center (AMEC) has introduced Airway Manager: Emergency, the newest educational experience from the creators of The Difficult Airway Course. Airway Manager: Emergency on NEJM Knowledge+ is an online learning program that combines airway management education with adaptive learning technology. The adaptive learning platform uses smart technology... 17 April 2019
The Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI) invites you to join two new webinars addressing several topics on patient safety in the healthcare system. Collaboration for Transformation: Patients as Partners Driving Patient Safety Improvement Tuesday, April 16 1:00 to 2:15 PM MDT At the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies... 17 April 2019
Health care is not defined solely by what happens in the emergency room or the doctor’s office. Patients bring with them their illnesses and their chronic conditions, but they also bring the barriers they face throughout their lives that can influence or even compromise their care. This is especially true for people in poverty... 17 April 2019
WISER, in collaboration with the Safar Center at the University of Pittsburgh, are pleased to provide you with an opportunity to join the Annual Safar Symposium on April 23, 2019 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Attendees can spend the full day with WISER, enjoying engaging lectures in the morning and interactive... 17 April 2019
Breakthrough Learning Founder and Senior Educator Bette Gardner is hosting an all-industry experiential learning workshop featuring the company’s tabletop simulation, Friday Night at the ER, on May 23-24, 2019, near Washington DC (Tysons Corner). Attendees can learn to move from silo thinking to systems thinking, and discover how to... 17 April 2019
The World Health Organization (WHO) made patient engagement a priority in 2005 by creating the Patients for Patient Safety (PFPS) Programme and launching a global network of PFPS Champions committed to the vision and pledge for partnership described in the London Declaration "to make care as safe as possible... 17 April 2019
Johnson & Johnson Innovation LLC and Children’s National Health System (Children’s National) are collaborating to launch JLABS @ Washington, DC – a 32,000-square foot facility to be located at the new Children’s National Research and Innovation Campus in Washington, D.C. This Children’s National expansion is set on a nearly... 17 April 2019
Precision OS has partnered with 10 North American universities and medical institutions to bring their high-fidelity Virtual Reality (VR) orthopedic surgery training platform into the surgical classroom. The Precision OS platform simulates operating room experiences, from the virtual tools used to the patient anatomy. This is reinforced with user-specific... 17 April 2019
About 80 Belgian soldiers participated in Vigorous Warrior 19, NATO's largest medical exercise. Organized every two years since 2011, Vigorous Warrior is NATO's only multi-national medical exercise organized by the NATO Center of Excellence for Military Medicine. So far the participants were not so numerous. This edition is unprecedented... 16 April 2019
Microsoft Corp. announced new partnerships with global higher education institutions to align and integrate Microsoft’s technical skills programs and credentials to help address the growing 21st century talent gap. The skills programs will help students prepare for the jobs of tomorrow with in-demand technologies in fields like artificial intelligence,... 12 April 2019
Tactical Medical Wing (TMW) demonstrated lifesaving capabilities to medical professionals and Defence partners from across the UK and overseas. Specialists were on hand, over a three-day period, to discuss the diverse outputs of TMW. This included Critical Care Air Support Teams, who provided the ability to move critically ill... 12 April 2019
The Patient Safety Movement supports MedStar Health Institute for Quality and Safety's Patient Safety Lecture on CANDOR in Healthcare, which takes place on May 20, 2019, at the Embassy of France in the U.S., Washington D.C., from 5 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. EDT. The Bennathan Lecture, the first of... 12 April 2019
Surgical Theater made its first international debut of the Precision VR Enterprise Solution at DMEA in Berlin, Germany. DMEA is Europe's largest event in the healthcare IT industry and provides Surgical Theater with an opportunity to feature the economic value of Precision VR and its scalability utilized as an... 11 April 2019
Osso VR is expanding into the European market after Newcastle Hospital’s Simulation Centre has begun using its technology to prepare surgeons for difficult procedures. The European healthcare market is facing growing challenges training new surgeons. According to a report from the Royal College of Surgeons, surgical trainees were focused... 11 April 2019
Patients for Patient Safety Canada, a patient-led program of the Canadian Patient Safety Institute, is hosting the webinar, How safe is the care we receive?, on April 25, 2019, at noon EST. How much do Canadians know about patient safety and patient harm? How many people have experienced harm from... 11 April 2019
The University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) Simulation in Motion-Nebraska program (SIM-NE) recognized its 5000th trainee at the Valley County Health System in Ord, Nebraska, on March 21, 2019. Jane Meyer, a nurse practitioner of the Valley County Health System in Ord, is the 5000th trainee. The SIM-NE team... 10 April 2019
Immersive virtual reality (VR) may enable interventional radiologists to improve treatments using real-time 3D images from inside a patient’s blood vessels. New research presented at the Society of Interventional Radiology’s 2019 Annual Scientific Meeting shows that the interactive technology could provide faster, more efficient treatment, with less radiation exposure... 10 April 2019