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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
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