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Artificial intelligence (AI) driven by machine learning (ML) algorithms is a branch in the field of computer science rapidly gaining popularity within the healthcare sector. However, graduate medical education and other teaching programs within academic teaching hospitals across the U.S. and around the world have not yet come to... 27 September 2018
MedaPhor Group, an ultrasound software and simulation company, installed a ScanTrainer OBGYN and General Medical simulator training platform at the new Ultrasound Training Academy at Central Middlesex Hospital in London, UK for the London North West Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH). The Academy was designed to ease growing ultrasound training pressures... 27 September 2018
The new Johns Hopkins All Children’s Research and Education Building opened in St. Petersburg, Florida that houses the hospital’s graduate medical education and simulation programs, institutes, an expanded biorepository and a new team of fundamental scientists who will seek to understand the origins of diseases and how to prevent them. 21 September 2018
Intermountain Healthcare opened its 120,000 square-foot Kem C. Gardner Intermountain Transformation Center at Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, Utah. It is home to multiple institutes and programs the company says are transforming the way medical care is provided to achieve the highest clinical quality at the lowest sustainable cost. Intermountain’s... 21 September 2018
A case study by an international team of researchers led by the University of Cambridge and Johns Hopkins Medicine, published online in Academic Medicine, looked at what prevented employees from raising patient-safety concerns and identifies measures to help healthcare organizations encourage employees to speak up. It recommends a systematic... 21 September 2018
Titan Medical Inc., a device company focused on a robotic surgical system for application in single-port minimally invasive surgery (“MIS”) and Mimic Technologies Inc. (“Mimic”), a provider of robotic simulation equipment, completed the core surgical skills simulation modules for use with Titan’s SPORT Surgical System surgeon workstation. The successful... 20 September 2018
Uganda Christian University (UCU) opened the new UCU School of Medicine (UCUSoM) in Namirembe. The first class of 62 students – 35 female and 27 male students was admitted after the school was accredited by the National Council of Higher Education (NCHE). Uganda Health Minister Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng said... 18 September 2018
Western Connecticut Health Network Emergency Medical Services will offer a Basic Emergency Medical Technician Course (EMT-B) at Danbury Hospital in Danbury, Connecticut that begins on October 1, 2018 to teach the necessary knowledge, skills and abilities for participants to become valuable members of the emergency healthcare system. The course will... 17 September 2018
Halldale Group, a leading supplier of information on simulation and training, has launched a new corporate website, www.halldale.com. This website, along with three magazine websites and four event websites, will form Halldale Group’s online presence. Andy Smith, Halldale Group CEO, comments, “We are excited to launch the new Halldale.com to... 17 September 2018
Aya Healthcare, a company that provides national healthcare staffing and workforce solutions with traveling clinicians, partnered with Health Scholars, a provider of experiential learning and simulation training for clinicians, to use Health Scholars’ screen-based virtual reality (VR) simulation course content to provide continuing education to its travel nurses. Health Scholars... 14 September 2018
The University of Newcastle’s Laureate Professor Nick Talley and Conjoint Senior Lecturer Dr Simon O’Connor were recognized for their work in medical education at the British Medical Association (BMA) Medical Book Awards 2018. Taking out first prize in the Medicine category for their Talley & O’Connor’s Clinical Examination 8th edition,... 13 September 2018
TransEnterix Inc., a medical device company that provides a digitized interface between surgeons and patients, filed a FDA 510(k) submission for its Senhance Ultrasonic Instrument System to improve minimally invasive surgery that could help increase patient safety. Advanced energy devices, including ultrasonic devices, are some of the most versatile and critical tools... 12 September 2018
In a proof of concept study, scientists at Johns Hopkins report they have successfully performed 3D personalized virtual simulations of the heart to accurately identify where cardiac specialists should electrically destroy cardiac tissue to stop potentially fatal irregular and rapid heartbeats in patients with scarring in the heart. The retrospective... 12 September 2018
PBS will air a new film by Ken Burns, THE MAYO CLINIC: FAITH – HOPE – SCIENCE, on September 25, 2019 at 9 p.m. ET and again on the 26th at 10 p.m. in the United States. The two-hour documentary tells the story of how a doctor and his sons... 10 September 2018
3D Systems signed an agreement with the European Respiratory Society (ERS) to provide simulation equipment and event services at three training centres for the ERS Endobronchial Ultrasound (EBUS) Certified Training Programme. EBUS is a minimally invasive procedure that can be used on an outpatient basis to not only diagnose and... 5 September 2018
The Duke University School of Nursing welcomed its second class of participants to its year-long professional development Emerging Leaders Program for nursing school staff that’s put on by the School of Nursing and Duke Learning & Organization Development, a unit within Duke Human Resources. The program consists of six sessions that feature coursework... 4 September 2018
Jump Simulation, a part of OSF Innovation and a collaboration of OSF HealthCare and the University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria, was recertified by the American College of Surgeons (ACS) as an outstanding center for simulation education. Jump is one of the largest purpose-built simulation and health care engineering... 31 August 2018
Inovus Medical, a designer and manufacturer of medical and surgical simulation products, launched its Bozzini™ Hysteroscopy Simulator that has an anatomically correct uterus with interchangeable pathologies for practicing diagnosis and intraoperative management. The pathologies include endometrial polyps, intrauterine adhesions and endometrial cancer/fibroid as well as a bicornate uterus. They offer... 30 August 2018
Inc. Magazine named SonoSim, Inc., as one of the fastest-growing private companies in the nation. With a revenue increase of nearly 100 percent, SonoSim, a provider of ultrasound education and simulation, is now one of the top five fastest-growing education companies in Los Angeles. SonoSim attributes its continued growth in... 29 August 2018
The Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF) is making its Shared Learning Network available to hospitals and healthcare organizations that formally commit to implementing patient safety processes that align with its 16 challenges and 31 Actionable Patient Safety Solutions (APSS). The Shared Learning Network is a forum for representatives from committed... 28 August 2018