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SynDaver will showcase the integration of its high-fidelity medical training technology paired with new augmented reality solutions in booth #938 at the International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH) through January 30 in San Antonio, Texas. The product demonstrations at SynDaver’s booth will incorporate the hyper-realistic synthetic human and...   28 January 2019
Education Management Solutions LLC (EMS) announced a new integrated simulation education platform that removes data sharing barriers between simulation-based learning management systems (LMS) and global higher education and patient safety LMS tools such as Blackboard, Canvas and Direct2Learning. The new SIMULATIONiQ platform supports seamless single user sign-on, fusing data...   25 January 2019
EBSCO Health has expanded with the acquisition of HealthDecision. HealthDecision is a clinical decision support and shared decision-making tool for clinicians and patients at the point of care. The software platform provides decision support tools enabling clinicians and patients to explore their medical options. The resource combines the patient’s...   25 January 2019
SynDaver will offer attendees at the International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH) an exclusive look at its recently launched equine and feline models from Jan. 26-30 at booth #938 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio. Like SynDaver’s existing human and canine synthetic surgical models...   25 January 2019
Conference-goers at the International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH) will have the opportunity to experience live group medical simulations combining SynDaver’s Synthetic Human, immersion table and a smart board collaboration system. This bundled solution will be offered as part of an exclusive IMSH show promotion. The SynDaver Synthetic...   25 January 2019
SynDaver will exhibit an array of new product offerings at the International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH) from January 26-30 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas. SynDaver will showcase several new high-fidelity synthetic models and trainers, which utilize the company’s proprietary blend of...   25 January 2019
Regional Health Command Europe (RHCE) along with Landstuhl Regional Medical Center (LRMC) hosted a Virtual Health Presenters Course for service members and civilians from across the European region. Virtual Health (VH) is the use of electronic information, imaging and communication technologies to provide and support healthcare when distance separates...   24 January 2019
Vanderbilt University School of Nursing opened a new $23.6 million building expansion containing a state-of-the-art simulation lab, technologically advanced classrooms and student services offices with a grand opening and ribbon cutting event in January. The high-tech building also features wellness components designed to support occupants’ well-being in health and...   24 January 2019
Engineering & Computer Simulations (ECS) works with HaptX, to provide enhanced military medical virtual reality training. ECS has enhanced its Tactical Combat Casualty Care Simulation (TC3Sim) medical trainer to incorporate a sense of touch in training scenarios to improve realism and training by using the HaptX Gloves Development Kit, an...   23 January 2019
Serious Play Events, featuring more than 80 sessions by the global thought leaders driving and expanding the study of games and simulations to improve learning and research, will gather at two separate conferences in 2019: Wednesday - Friday, July 10-12 at University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM) Wednesday - Friday,...   23 January 2019
For the seventh year in a row, President Clinton presented the keynote address at the 7th Annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit. In his speech, President Clinton commended attendees on the 273,077 lives saved over the last seven years and asked participating clinicians, hospitals and healthcare technology...   23 January 2019
Engineering & Computer Simulations (ECS) works with HaptX, to provide enhanced military medical virtual reality training. ECS has enhanced its Tactical Combat Casualty Care Simulation (TC3Sim) medical trainer to incorporate a sense of touch in training scenarios to improve realism and training by using the HaptX Gloves Development Kit, an...   23 January 2019
Operative Experience Inc. (OEI) announced the launch of TCCS Plus, a military-grade, high-fidelity simulator designed to provide hyper-real, clinically-responsive trauma training for combat medics on the battlefield as well as civilian first responders in active shooter and other mass casualty scenarios. The simulator provides training for forward deployed medical personnel...   22 January 2019
Operative Experience Inc. (OEI) announced the launch of TCCS Plus, a military-grade, high-fidelity simulator designed to provide hyper-real, clinically-responsive trauma training for combat medics on the battlefield as well as civilian first responders in active shooter and other mass casualty scenarios. The simulator provides training for forward deployed medical personnel...   22 January 2019
Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST) was approved by the Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture of the Macao SAR to offer the first Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) program in Macao. The program will start the admission of students in the 2019/2020 academic year to...   21 January 2019
CAE announced that its president and Chief Executive Officer, Marc Parent, was named CEO of the Year in the Large Corporation category by business journal Les Affaires. The jury, composed mainly of members of the business community as well as university professors, was asked to assess the vision, innovation, capacity...   18 January 2019
Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. and Microsoft Corp. have joined forces to develop new healthcare delivery models, technology and retail innovations to advance and improve the future of healthcare. The companies will combine the power of Microsoft Azure, Microsoft’s cloud and AI platform, healthcare investments and new retail solutions with WBA’s...   17 January 2019
Digital entries in the International Serious Play Awards are due February 15, 2019. Serious Play’s 11-year-old award program recognizes outstanding games designed for use for education or training in business, government/military, healthcare, museums, higher education or K12. Digital games created by high school or college students with minimal faculty involvement...   17 January 2019
The blood may not be real, but it better look, feel and even smell realistic. Rick Adams looks at developments in battlefield casualty care training. Any kid that has every created a zombie costume for Halloween or Day of the Dead celebrations knows how to make fake blood – red...   17 January 2019
Canadian news publication, The Globe and Mail, reports that SickKids will announce the appointment of Dr. Goldenberg as the hospital’s first chair in biomedical informatics and artificial intelligence (AI), a post funded in part by a $1.75-million donation from Amar Varma, a Toronto engineer and entrepreneur whose newborn son underwent...   16 January 2019