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Vcom3D released its new Virtual HHIO Training app on the Google Play store. It is an interactive serious game that challenges the user’s knowledge in humeral head intraosseous infusion. This app is both instructive and educational, and can be used for students just learning the skill or seasoned practitioners looking... 16 January 2019
The inaugural Simulation and Training for Resilience and Safety Symposium 2019 (STRS) will take place 26-27 March 2019 at No. 4 Hamilton Place, London, U.K. Through the sharing of information and ideas, this brand new event aims to encourage innovation and build partnerships in training and simulation across safety-critical industries... 16 January 2019
Beyond Limits announced the formation of a healthcare advisory board composed of prominent physicians and healthcare executives from medical clinics and companies. The board will provide medical, scientific and technical guidance to accelerate deployment of Beyond Limits cognitive AI technology for patient monitoring, clinical decision support, population health management, drug... 15 January 2019
GE Healthcare and Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) announced a five-year partnership to enable safer and more precise cancer immunotherapies. Multiple diagnostic tools will be developed to help predict both the efficacy of an immunotherapy treatment and its adverse effects for a specific patient before the therapy is administered. This... 15 January 2019
MedaPhor Group plc announced that, pursuant to the resolution passed at the General Meeting held on in December, it has changed its name to Intelligent Ultrasound Group plc. The Board believes that the new name reflects the fact that the Group is no longer just providing ultrasound training through simulation,... 15 January 2019
Dr. Karen J. Panzarella is an Associate Professor at D’Youville, in Buffalo NY and a Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator and TeamSTEPPS (Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety) master trainer. Her research focuses on the use of healthcare simulation for collaborative practice. Dr. Heather Ferro is... 14 January 2019
Dr. Cameron Ricks is an anesthesiologist and is the Medical Director of the Medical Education Simulation Center at UC Irvine. He is a clinical instructor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Care. He is also a former critical care registered nurse. His special interest is in training of... 14 January 2019
Brian Gillett, MD, is an Emergency Medicine physician with over two decades of leadership and innovation in simulation training and emergency preparedness. Brian built and served as the director of medical simulation for the Kings County Hospital Center, SUNY Downstate College of Medicine and Maimonides Medical Center. He also... 14 January 2019
Dr. Timothy Willett is SIM-one/CNSH's president and CEO (appointed in 2016) and was previously their inaugural director of Research & Development. He is passionate about bringing together the simulation community for mutual support, to improve the quality of simulation across Canada, and to advance the scope of simulation’s uses. 14 January 2019
Paul Alan Wetter, MD, has been described as, “The single individual who has done the most to promote education and understanding of minimally invasive surgery worldwide”. A visionary, who has promoted technology and education that fosters less traumatic surgery, improves physician education, lowers costs, builds communities, accelerates discovery and... 14 January 2019
MTM subscribers nominated 33 individuals, teams or organizations from around the world as Patient Safety Advocates. For our first edition of 2019 we asked our subscribers to nominate patient safety advocates they felt had contributed to increased patient safety and better patient outcomes. They could specify an individual, team,... 14 January 2019
Brian Kaminski, DO, is vice president of Quality and Patient Safety and Patient Safety Officer at ProMedica (Toledo, Ohio) and Medical Director of the Emergency Department at ProMedica Toledo Hospital. Dr. Kaminski became vice president of quality and patient safety and patient safety officer at ProMedica in 2013. During... 14 January 2019
Elizabeth Benson is an engineer, nurse, and educator. As CEO of B & G Educational Innovations, LLC, and subsidiary ReaLifeSim, LLC, she’s also an inventor and entrepreneur on a mission to improve health and wellness worldwide by improving clinical skills education. Regardless of the environment, Ms. Benson has one... 14 January 2019
Written by Andy Smith, MTM Publisher A few weeks ago, MTM reported that the Leapfrog Group announced the winners of its 2018 Top Hospital Awards with 118 hospitals recognized in four categories; Children’s, General, Teaching and Rural Hospitals. Living and working in Florida we are all delighted to report this... 11 January 2019
The Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF) supports two federal laws aimed to improve the safety of mothers in hospitals across the United States. Before adjourning in December, Congress passed these important maternal health bills that were subsequently signed into law. “Over 600 mothers are dying in the United States every... 11 January 2019
The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) underwent a major technology upgrade in their wide area virtual environment (WAVE). The WAVE is a virtual reality (VR) environment in which medical and armed forces personnel train for combat situations in a high-intensity simulation. The system prepares trainees to handle... 10 January 2019
OtoSim Inc, a Toronto-based medical simulation company that specializes in otoscopy and ophthalmoscopy trainers, is introducing OphthoSim Mobile™, the world’s 1st mobile ophthalmoscopic simulator, at IMSH 2019, January 26-29 in San Antonio, Texas. Complementing OphthoSim™, the advanced desktop-based Ophthalmoscopy Simulator, OphthoSim Mobile™ transforms any smartphone or tablet into a hand-held ophthalmoscopic... 10 January 2019
ePlus inc. recently announced its partnership with Intel and Surgical Theater. Together with its partners, ePlus will assist customers to bridge the knowledge gap between doctors and patients with Surgical Theater's Precision VR technology. Powered by Intel Core i7 processors, the solution combines F-16 flight simulation technology with 360 degree... 9 January 2019
The U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) has awarded Florida International University’s (FIU) Academy for International Disaster Preparedness at the Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work $4.8 million to train disaster response medical professionals. Over the next five years, participants will work... 9 January 2019
Mentice, a provider of in virtual reality‐based interventional medical simulation solutions, announced the appointment of Dr. David J. Ballard as Chief Clinical Officer and Executive Vice President of the Mentice Group. Dr. Ballard was appointed an independent member of the Mentice board of directors in October 2018. Dr. Ballard (M.D.,... 9 January 2019