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The Global Network for Simulation in Healthcare (GNSH) was founded in 2010 to promote the collaborative sharing of ideas that advance medical training and drive improvements in patient safety. Comprised of leading international organizations and corporations from around the world, GNSH provides an ideal forum for sharing advancements in... 26 February 2019
VitalConnect Inc. introduced its Vista Solution 2.01 at HIMSS19, ushering in the next generation of healthcare where specific health outcomes can be detected through National Early Warning Scores (NEWS). Vista Solution 2.0 will include the addition of weight scale, blood pressure and pulse oximetry via 3rd party devices, and... 25 February 2019
AdventHealth Nicholson Center is hosting its sixth annual Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome (OSAS) course on February 25th, 2019 in Orlando, Florida. This is the first time media will be invited to see the role Central Florida plays in international health care. More than 80 surgeons from as far as... 25 February 2019
Written by Andy Smith, MTM publisher This issue of the MTM newsletter contains links to the MMAST newsletter. This new publication is designed to release information on Joint Military Medicine Simulation and Training developments across the DOD. Scheduled for publication every two months, this MMAST newsletter provides key contact points as well... 22 February 2019
Written by Andy Smith, MTM publisher The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HiMSS) event, designed to ‘transform healthcare through information and technology’ descended on Orlando, Florida, last week filling the original expo halls of the Orange County Convention Center with 1300 exhibitors and bringing 45,000 earnest healthcare technologists together to... 22 February 2019
Yitu Healthcare has successfully used natural language processing (NLP) to achieve high-accuracy rates on par with doctors when reading electronic health records and generating patient diagnoses. The result is published on Nature Medicine under “Evaluation and Accurate Diagnoses of Pediatric Diseases using Artificial Intelligence”. It’s the first time for... 22 February 2019
J.D. Power released the results from its December 2018 pulse survey, which delves into consumer perception of the CVS-Aetna merger and the prospect of receiving care in a CVS retail pharmacy setting. It generated 1,000 responses. More than half (53 percent) had visited a CVS store within the previous... 22 February 2019
Researchers at The Ottawa Hospital and the University of Ottawa are using an Operating Room Black Box (OR Black Box) to study whether improving teamwork and communication among operating room staff can make surgery safer for patients. “When I was a medical student we had lots of training... 21 February 2019
At HiMSS19, Michael Sanders, FAAFP, MD, chief medical and informatics officer of Flagler Hospital, led a session on the hospital’s progress in tackling clinical variation with artificial intelligence (AI). Applying Ayasdi's Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered Clinical Variation Management (CVM) software application to pneumonia, Flagler Hospital saved an average of $1,350... 20 February 2019
The winners of the 2019 Microsoft for Healthcare Innovation Awards were announced at HIMSS19 during the Microsoft Health Forum. Each year, the awards acknowledge health and life sciences organizations and their technology solution partners that are achieving innovation excellence with a Microsoft-based solution. The winners in each of the... 20 February 2019
Survitec has standardised its portfolio of battlefield casualty sustainment modules to reduce the number of fatalities sustained from injuries that are generally considered to have been treatable. Adopting an approach implemented by the U.S. military, Survitec has reconfigured its 29 medical modules, including the FC-1, MC-1, FC-2, FC-4, FC-4WP,... 19 February 2019
Sponsored Content ITEC 2019 will take place in Stockholm, Sweden from 14 to 16 May 2019. Since 1999, Sweden has been leading the VIKING series of exercises alongside participants from the UN, EU, civilian authorities, police, military and representatives from humanitarian organisations. VIKING is a practical extension of efforts... 19 February 2019
Oregonians hurt by a car crash or another traumatic event can mend their injuries with the help of skilled and seasoned U.S. Army healthcare professionals stationed at OHSU, in Portland, Oregon, through a new medical exchange program. OHSU is one of two hospitals nationwide participating in the new Army... 19 February 2019
The American Red Cross launched its new resuscitation education program that meets certification and licensing requirements for healthcare, EMS and other public safety professionals. The program consists of Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Life Support (ALS) and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) courses that leverage the latest learning technologies... 18 February 2019
Aetna a CVS Health business, launched Attain, a health experience app designed by Aetna in collaboration with Apple. Through the use of an Apple Watch, the Attain app will provide Aetna members with personalized goals, track their daily activity levels, recommend healthy actions and ultimately reward them for taking... 15 February 2019
In an article on HealthcareITNews, Cathy Lester, Health Outcomes Innovation, Verizon Enterprise Solutions, champions for telemedicine solutions in disaster response efforts. Lester writes: “Some of the biggest challenges to widespread adoption and use of telemedicine in disaster response are associated with scale and activation – for example, activating medical... 15 February 2019
In an article on KevinMD, Dr. Tista S. Ghosh, MD, MPH, discusses the high suicide rate among physicians and advocates for a solution. Ghosh writes: “Physicians have long had disproportionately high suicide rates. One 2018 literature review found the physician suicide rate to be double the average. Sleep deprivation, stress and... 15 February 2019
Medical Training Magazine is happy to host the MMAST bi-monthly newsletter. 14 February 2019
The Crown Prince’s Centre for Training and Medical Research is the first simulation center in the Kingdom of Bahrain and will serve as a Middle East hub to attract the collaboration of the health and educational institutions around the world. The center provides the high-quality simulation-based medical education by... 14 February 2019
Bahrain News Agency reports that under the patronage of His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the Crown Prince, Deputy Supreme Commander and First Deputy Prime Minister, the Crown Prince Centre for Training and Medical Research was opened in early February, marking the Bahrain Defence Force (BDF)’s... 14 February 2019