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The latest iteration of this event, the 19th, took place in San Antonio in late January. As the show closed, the organizers announced that membership had increased to 4,200 globally and the current event was the largest on record with 3,146 registered delegates plus 948 exhibit staff. The latter...   8 February 2019
The 3rd Annual VR and Healthcare Symposium, taking place in Tucson, Arizona, from March 7-8, 2019, is the largest global gathering exploring the research, applications and opportunities in virtual, augmented and mixed reality in healthcare. Speakers include: HP, HTC Vive, Samsung, Microsoft, Mayo Clinic, Johnson & Johnson, NIH, Thiel...   8 February 2019
Hodei Technology LLC is partnering with World Housing Solution Inc. and iCoreConnect Inc. to combine its technologies to make available new ADA compliant off-grid portable licensed healthcare facilities (Clinic on Wheels). This new offering will provide an advanced level of connectivity and communication capabilities that offer a continuity of...   8 February 2019
Xavier University of Louisiana and Ochsner Health System teamed up to launch a new Physician Assistant (PA) Program for the inaugural class matriculating in January 2020. The 28-month, full-time graduate program, which leads to a master’s degree in health sciences, is comprised of three semesters of classroom instruction followed...   8 February 2019
HealthcareSource is expanding its learning management suite of education and training resources to include the Resuscitation Quality Improvement (RQI) program and HeartCode Basic Life Support, Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support and Pediatric Advanced Life Support eLearning programs. The programs are codeveloped by the American Heart Association and Laerdal Medical and...   7 February 2019
Q1’s 12th Annual Medical Device Clinical Training Conference will be hosted on February 26-27 in Charlotte, North Carolina. This two-day conference allows clinical trainers and education professionals to come together to discuss enhancing training and scheduling approaches, cross-cultural training strategies, identifying budget constraints and more in an interactive setting.   6 February 2019
The Health Professions Accreditors Collaborative and the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education have released the Guidance on Developing Quality Interprofessional Education for the Health Professions. It was developed through a multi-year, multi-phase consensus process aimed at supporting the development and implementation of quality interprofessional education (IPE). The...   6 February 2019
Education Management Solutions (EMS) says the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education has established that high-functioning teams can improve the outcomes, experience and costs of healthcare. And a recent report by the Institute of Medicine also outlines the "positive impact that interprofessional collaboration and teamwork can have on...   5 February 2019
The British Army has awarded a contract to Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim) to demonstrate the art of using virtual reality, machine learning and cloud computing for the Army’s Collective Training Transformation Programme (CTTP). The pilot programme has been made available through the Defence Innovation Fund, MOD investment into innovation.   5 February 2019
Following the Patient Safety Movement Foundation’s 7th Annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit, Joe Kiani, the founder and chairman of the Patient Safety Movement Foundation, continues to encourage more individuals to plan for zero preventative deaths in hospitals by implementing all of its Actionable Patient Safety Solutions...   4 February 2019
3D Systems Healthcare is partnering with the medical device industry to drive the next generation of healthcare products and applications. 3D printing and advanced manufacturing technology can enable new product innovation by accelerating the design process—bringing revolutionary medical devices to the market faster. 3D Systems strives to continuously innovate...   4 February 2019
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