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3D Systems released its new ANGIO Mentor ICE Trainer module that trains standard ICE view acquisition in a variety of pathologies, using a real modified ICE catheter handle in a didactic environment. ASD Doppler Catheter-based intra-cardiac echocardiography (ICE) is an imaging modality that provides meaningful, real-time anatomical peri-interventional guidance... 4 February 2019
Written by Andy Smith, MTM publisher. When looked at from an education, training, assessment and simulation point of view, 2018 was an interesting year in healthcare when some of the answers to the upcoming demographic challenges—including lack of staff, increasing long-term care demand and a different student profile—began to crystallize and... 1 February 2019
SuperSHIFTER Stephen Routledge is a senior program manager at the Canadian Patient Safety Institute, who is leading the next evolution of the Global Patient Safety Alerts (GPSA) program. GPSA is a publicly-available online collection of indexed patient safety incidents, containing more than 1,500 alerts and 7,500 recommendations from 26... 1 February 2019
The U.S. Air Force 633rd Medical Group’s new program aims to reduce overdue Individual Medical Readiness statuses throughout the medical group. U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Nathaniel Rasmussen, 633rd Aerospace Medicine Squadron periodic health assessment NCO in charge, shares his idea with fellow Medical Right Start Program working group... 1 February 2019
NHS' personalises healthcare with its Universal Personalised Care implementation strategy. Nesta welcomes the "major step forward" for personalised health care as NHS England published their Universal Personalised Care implementation strategy. The document draws on much of Nesta’s work, putting into practical terms what integrated personal care will look like,... 31 January 2019
To access more training opportunities, military surgeons are looking to virtual training platforms. The U.S. Air Force is working with sister services to study a virtual training platform called Crowd-Sourced Assessment of Technical Skills, or C-SATS. It provides specialized training for surgeons to further improve their specialized skills. Airmen... 31 January 2019
Device Authority announced its partnership and joint customer success with nCipher Security for business critical information and applications. Device Authority’s KeyScaler platform will integrate with nCipher’s nShield hardware security modules (HSMs) to provide high-assurance device authentication, managed end-to-end encryption and certificate provisioning for IoT devices, which can be used... 31 January 2019
Universities and healthcare providers in Georgia, U.S., have created the state’s first Clinical Informatics Fellowship. The Augusta University/University of Georgia Medical Partnership and the University of Georgia (UGA) College of Public Health have partnered with Athens-area healthcare providers — St. Mary’s Healthcare System, Piedmont Athens Regional and the University... 30 January 2019
During 2019 IMSH, Group Editor Marty Kauchak discussed topics of interest to the healthcare simulation and training community with Amar Patel, CAE Healthcare’s CLO. An extract of the interview is provided below. During the recent 2019 IMSH, Group Editor Marty Kauchak (left) discussed topics of interest to the healthcare... 29 January 2019
CAE Healthcare announced the release of CAE Luna, an infant simulator designed to fulfill clinical training requirements for neonatal and infant care and to simulate critical newborn conditions that require an interprofessional team response. “CAE Luna will give healthcare providers confidence in caring for our most vulnerable patients, newborns... 29 January 2019
Education Management Solutions LLC (EMS) announced a new app to compliment their integrated SIMULATIONiQ and MEDIASHAREiQ platforms: Control360. The app facilitates secure, easy ad hoc recording and live streaming of simulation room videos using existing AV equipment. Control360 removes the dependency on central AV control systems. The app can... 29 January 2019
Group Editor Marty Kauchak was joined by Holly Foster, Halldale Media Sales Representative, to put SimX through the paces of one scenario on the 2019 IMSH exhibition floor. Delegates at 2019 IMSH were able to immerse themselves in a rigorous learning environment by way of the SimX wireless, multiplayer,... 28 January 2019
CAE HPSN World 2019 (February 26-28 at the Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld in Orlando, Florida) is the ideal environment for all members of the healthcare industry to learn about best practices for improving patient safety through simulation-based education. Over the years, CAE Healthcare, a worldwide training partner of choice... 28 January 2019
BreakAway Games will be exhibiting its vHealthCare Portal at the International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH), which is taking place in San Antonio, Texas, from 26-30 January. The vHealthCare Portal provides several interactive learning games and screen-based simulations to help improve users’ clinical thinking and differential diagnosis skills. 28 January 2019
Continuing with TWME8’s strategy of supporting simulation professionals in the development of and collaboration on high-quality scenarios, regardless of the manikin technologies they utilise, the company has been working in collaboration with CAE Healthcare. TWME8's iRIS users can export the scenarios they have developed to be opened and run on... 28 January 2019
Laerdal Medical and B-Line Medical have announced a collaborative partnership to integrate existing and new product lines to significantly improve the quality, consistency and ease of administering healthcare simulation education and training. As part of the long-term collaboration agreement, Laerdal Medical and B-Line Medical will develop and distribute turn-key... 28 January 2019
With a new multimedia toolkit, Boston Medical Center (BMC) aims to make learning about patient safety in the hospital setting more concrete, relevant and accessible to as wide an audience as possible. The toolkit, OK to Proceed? What Every Healthcare Provider Should Know About Patient Safety, is anchored by... 28 January 2019
The SkinVision team announced the investment of $7.6 million in the company to support its journey of bringing convenient, accurate and quick recognition of skin cancer. This funding round has been supported by current shareholders LEO Pharma, PHS Capital and a number of new high net worth impact investors. 28 January 2019
Education Management Solutions LLC (EMS) announced a new integrated online education and video management platform that removes geographic and technical barriers, and jumpstarts online clinical education programs. MEDIASHAREiQ puts learning directly in the hands of students and instructors with its combined, next-generation cloud-based platform and suite of apps. MEDIASHAREiQ... 28 January 2019
SynDaver will debut an engineering kit for STEM students during the International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH), which is taking place until January 30 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas. The engineering kit enables students to build a SynDaver Advanced Modular Mannequin (SAMM),... 28 January 2019