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Dr. Guy Rooney is to take on the new position of medical director at the Oxford AHSN. He will have a key role in supporting innovation adoption and strengthening clinical engagement with emerging integrated care systems. Rooney is currently the medical director at Great Western Hospitals in Swindon, England,...   3 April 2019
Health Scholars has launched the first headset-based Virtual Reality (VR) training simulation to provide clinicians repeatable ACLS refresher training. In-hospital cardiac arrest survival rates average 26 percent, and patients in which clinical staff reported adequate resuscitation training have greater than 3-fold odds of higher survival rates than patients where...   3 April 2019
Beginning this fall, the School of Nursing at Mount Aloysius College will begin enrolling students into a new 3.5-year traditional Bachelor of Science in Nursing program. Part of the underlying premise to the new program is to meet the goal to increase the number of nurses entering the workforce...   3 April 2019
In the Patient Safety Movement Foundation’s newsletter the company highlighted Mexico City’s Hospital Español as the first International hospital to earn the Patient Safety Movement Foundation’s prestigious five-star ranking. Their entry into the PSMF’s five-star Hospital Program was officially announced at the 7th Annual World Patient Safety, Science &...   3 April 2019
The Johnson & Johnson Institute has 24 state-of-the-art training facilities, located in 23 cities on five continents. And when it’s not possible for healthcare professionals (HCPs) to travel to the institute, it can deliver education via an 18-wheeler mobile lab equipped with the latest in surgical simulation training. The...   3 April 2019
Because the ability to perform point-of-care ultrasounds is an essential skill in emergency medicine, the Society of Emergency Medicine Physician Assistants (SEMPA) has partnered with SonoSim. With options for cloud-based education and the ability to scan real-patient pathology, the SonoSim Ultrasound Training Solution provides physician assistants (PAs) an accessible...   3 April 2019
Marie Nolan, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN, professor and executive vice dean for the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing (JHSON), received the Distinguished Career Achievement Award from the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association. The award celebrates Nolan’s major contributions to research, theory and education in nursing and interdisciplinary palliative care.   3 April 2019
The NHS England diabetes team has partnered with Oxford Medical Simulation to train doctors using virtual reality. Doctors can now practice in virtual reality medical emergencies to improve care for patients with diabetes in the real world. Combining clinical expertise from the NHS, volunteer patient input and virtual reality...   3 April 2019
Organis GmbH launched an economic version of its high-fidelity lung simulators TestChest. The new TestChest-light is built on the same platform and provides the same mechanical and physiological features like its other version but at a significantly reduced price tag. Simulation-based medical training thus becomes affordable for all intensive...   2 April 2019
SonoSim has released new transabdominal and transvaginal real-patient scanning cases in the Advanced GYN Malignant Adnexal Conditions Module: Advanced Clinical Module. New pathologies include: dermoid, germ cell tumor, hemorrhagic corpus luteum, endometrioma, and multi-locular cancerous cystic lesion. This SonoSim Advanced Clinical Module overviews both pre- and postmenopausal adnexal anatomy...   1 April 2019
SonoSim has launched its DVT – Lower Extremity: Core Clinical Module, which focuses on the sonographic evaluation of lower extremity deep vein thrombosis (DVT), including both first-time and recurrent DVTs. Course lessons cover normal lower extremity vasculature, sonographic anatomy, and scanning technique. Multiple DVT ultrasound protocols (ranging from point-of-care...   29 March 2019
Experience a hands-on demo of the latest in Simbionix simulator releases at booth #702 at the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES), which takes place 3-6 April 2019, in Baltimore, Maryland. 3D Systems will be demonstrating the following innovations: GI Endoscopy – Fundamental Skills module:The GI Endoscopy...   28 March 2019
CAE’s Quality Management System of its CAE Healthcare facility in Sarasota, Florida, has achieved ISO 9001:2015 certification in respect to the following scope: "Design, Production, Integration, Test and Delivery of Medical Simulation Technologies and Post-Delivery Activities and Services." ISO (International Organization for Standardization) establishes specific criteria for organizational conformance...   27 March 2019
The International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua) announced their support of the Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF) and their mission to eliminate preventable deaths in hospitals, with a signed cooperation agreement. With this agreement, ISQua and PSMF agree to work together to further their aims to improve...   26 March 2019
The U.S. Naval Expeditionary Medical Training Institute (NEMTI) on Camp Pendleton, California, hosted Expeditionary Medical Facility (EMF) training as part of Pacific Blitz 2019 (PacBlitz19). One of the key objectives in establishing the EMF as part of PacBlitz19 is to integrate various capabilities across several expeditionary stakeholders to include...   26 March 2019
3D Systems’ PELVIC Mentor advanced simulator provides hands-on anatomy and pelvic exam training. It allows nurses, nurse practitioners, doctorate of nursing programs, certified nurse midwives, OB/GYNs, family practice doctors, physician assistants, medical students and physician assistant learners to obtain detailed knowledge of pelvic anatomy and to acquire the comprehensive...   25 March 2019
Written by Andy Smith, MTM publisher Most discussions within the healthcare training community today revolve around a consensus that to significantly improve healthcare training, patient outcomes and usefully contribute to healthcare cost reduction, we will need standards and mandated behaviors. The fact that we are talking today about hospitals and not...   22 March 2019
This 11 March, U.S. Navy Vice Admiral C. Forrest Faison, III, Surgeon General, Chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery responded to a wide range of questions from Halldale Group Editor Marty Kauchak. The Navy medical community leader’s insights are provided below.  US Navy Vice Admiral C. Forrest Faison, III,...   22 March 2019
SpIntellx Inc. has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant for $225,000 to conduct research and development (R&D) work on its HistoMapr-Breast product. HistoMapr-Breast is a computational guide for pathologists that automatically recognizes and classifies regions of interest in H&E-stained and/or immunohistochemistry slides...   22 March 2019
In WISER’s Spring 2019 Highlights, the company announced that it is developing version 3 of its Simulation Information Management System (SIMS). WISER has taken everything it has learned by working with its customers over the past 13 years and is in the process of rewriting SIMS 3.0 from the...   22 March 2019