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The Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF) announced that Baxter International Inc., a medical products company, has signed the PSMF’s Open Data Pledge as the 89th company to demonstrate the importance of data sharing to improving patient safety. Companies that have signed the PSMF’s Open Data Pledge are committed to... 2 January 2019
The Blue & You Foundation awarded a total of $2.7 million in grants to 42 health improvement programs in Arkansas. Arkansas State University-Mountain Home (ASUMH ) was the recipient of one of those grants. The Enhancing Student Success with Simulation Program will provide simulation equipment, including a SimMan 3G and... 21 December 2018
The Medical Simulation Center at Tripler Army Medical Center earned its reaccreditation from the American College of Surgeons as a comprehensive education institute, as well as, a re-endorsement to serve as a simulation education network site by the American Society of Anesthesiologists. To receive accreditation, the simulation center must meet... 20 December 2018
Written by Andy Smith, MTM Publisher In our last newsletter we reported on the grades given to Hospitals by the Leapfrog Group, a non profit watchdog organization that serves as a voice for healthcare purchasers. This issue we look at the work of the Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF) PSMF... 19 December 2018
LP3 Network announced that beginning in 2019, the company will be a provider of continuing medical education (CME). LP3 Network’s CME-accredited activities have been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the... 18 December 2018
The Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine (RowanSOM) received accreditation from the American Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education to physicians. The accreditation is, initially, for two years and provides the medical school with the opportunity to expand its catalog of in-person and online training... 17 December 2018
Hill-Rom, a provider of medical technologies and manufacturer of hospital beds, announced that EarlySense, a contact-free continuous monitoring solution, has integrated its continuous contact-free heart-rate and respiratory-rate sensing and analytics technology into Hill-Rom's Centrella® Smart+ bed platform. EarlySense® technology alerts clinicians to potential patient deterioration events much earlier than traditional... 17 December 2018
Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS unveiled the prototype of a virtual surgery trainer at MEDICA 2018 in November. “HandsOn.surgery” helps surgeons prepare for individual patient cases prior to surgery, and enables them to practice the surgery. Both the surgical placement of implantable hearing aids and the... 14 December 2018
Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS unveiled the prototype of a virtual surgery trainer at MEDICA 2018 in November. “HandsOn.surgery” helps surgeons prepare for individual patient cases prior to surgery, and enables them to practice the surgery. Both the surgical placement of implantable hearing aids and the... 14 December 2018
CMR Surgical, a British company developing Versius – a next-generation surgical robotic system – and Florida Hospital’s Nicholson Center, a center of excellence for training, have launched the first U.S.-based training program for Versius. CMR Surgical expects to launch Versius, the next-generation surgical robot, in the U.S in 2019. CMR... 14 December 2018
Medical health officers from the Chilean Air Force visited the U.S. Air Force 59th Medical Wing on Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in December, to gain a better understanding of Critical Care Air Transportation Teams (CCATTs). CCATTs operate an intensive care unit in an aircraft cabin during flight, adding critical care... 14 December 2018
Differentiating a skin cancer from a harmless lesion can be tricky, especially for medical students who are still acquainting themselves with dermatology. Michael Kolodney, MD, chair of West Virginia University’s Department of Dermatology, has developed a smartphone app to help students practice diagnosing melanomas, a type of skin cancer, based... 13 December 2018
Kitware added to its collection of open source toolkits with the first release of the interactive Medical Simulation Toolkit (iMSTK). The toolkit offers manufacturers and researchers all the software components they need to build and test virtual simulators for medical training and planning. “iMSTK, which we’ve been developing in close... 12 December 2018
Kitware added to its collection of open source toolkits with the first release of the interactive Medical Simulation Toolkit (iMSTK). The toolkit offers manufacturers and researchers all the software components they need to build and test virtual simulators for medical training and planning. “iMSTK, which we’ve been developing in close... 12 December 2018
SonoSim, Inc., has been announced as a “Recognized Leader in Ultrasound Training” by Corporate Vision (CV) Magazine. The accolade comes as a part of CV’s 2018 HR & Training Awards, which highlight teams that have created and adopted innovative training techniques. “SonoSim is honored to receive the CV Magazine award... 11 December 2018
HLTH, the world’s largest conference on health innovation for individuals, companies, and policymakers who are reshaping the industry, and Mercer, a global consulting leader in health, wealth, and career announced today that the two firms have signed an agreement to create a new forum for employers within the HLTH 2019... 11 December 2018
by Andy Smith, MTM publisher The Leapfrog Group has announced the winners of its 2018 Top Hospital Awards with 118 hospitals recognized in four categories; Children’s, General, Teaching and Rural Hospitals. Florida, California, New jersey and Texas each recorded 12 or more hospitals receiving the highest awards for this year. Leapfrog... 10 December 2018
The Chicago-based Society for Vascular Surgery will relocate its headquarters to Rosemont, Ill., near Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, as of March 1, 2019. The SVS http://www.vascular.org/ is an international, not-for-profit professional medical society, serving specialty-trained vascular surgeons and allied professionals. The new headquarters includes access to a surgical simulation center... 6 December 2018
Amazon launched Amazon Comprehend Medical, a new HIPAA-eligible machine learning service that allows developers to process unstructured medical text and identify information such as patient diagnosis, treatments, dosages, symptoms and signs, and more. Comprehend Medical helps health care providers, insurers, researchers and clinical trial investigators as well as health care... 4 December 2018
UK publication, The Times, writes that UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock says the “the burger chain’s training and support programmes could provide a model for the NHS.” Medical Training Magazine focuses on best practices in medical training and education is intrigued by the article that says Hancock’s take that “One... 4 December 2018