Safety Critical Industries

Search channel

Reset all filters
Refine Search


All Safety Critical Industries News & Articles

FundamentalVR, pioneers of immersive training technology for the medical community, named Hybrid Health as its channel partner for Australia and New Zealand markets. The company is looking to Hybrid Health’s connections to energize FundamentalVR’s entry into this market to help expand its sales network. It is also hoping to spread...   10 October 2018
ImmersiveTouch, Inc.® launched ImmersiveView™, what it says is the only suite of integrated virtual reality (VR) real-time solutions for personalized surgical planning, patient engagement and surgical training using patented haptic technology. ImmersiveView is designed to optimize outcomes and save costs, decreasing time in the operating room and improving pre-operative planning...   9 October 2018
The U.S. Army Program Executive Officer for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI) brought its Tactical Combat Casualty Care Exportable (TC3X) medical training mannequins to Fort Benning, Georgia to increase the realism of medical trauma training that can ultimately save lives and limbs. The mannequin can scream, breathe, bleed and...   8 October 2018
Fremont Health and Midland University opened a new million-dollar Simulation Laboratory at Freemont Health that will provide hands-on learning for nursing students, Fremont Health staff and healthcare professionals in the Freemont, Nebraska area. The simulation lab offers a practice environment that features human-patient manikins let nursing students practice skills, techniques,...   8 October 2018
McLaren Flint Healthcare, a large community hospital affiliated with Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, is using 3D System’s Simbionix ARTHRO Mentor simulator to assess the performance of Orthopedic Surgery and Sports Medicine residents before allowing them to perform surgery. The residency is a 5-year program where the...   3 October 2018
A call to the industry by Andy Smith, Medical Training Magazine publisher The National Training & Simulation Association (NTSA) organized this year’s annual NMSC meeting at UNMC’s Interprofessional Experiential Center for Enduring Learning (iEXCEL) in Omaha, with Rick Severinghaus, Chair of the NMSC Policy Committee as conference organizer and Chair.   3 October 2018
previously published in MTM issue 3, 2017 Jeffrey P. Gold, MD and Pamela J. Boyers, PhD profile the Interprofessional Experiential Center for Enduring Learning (iEXCELSM) at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC), which is a bold, interprofessional initiative purposefully designed to transform the current model of healthcare professions education.   2 October 2018
previously published in MTM issue 2, 2018 Pamela J. Boyers, Ph.D. and Jeffrey P. Gold, M.D. offer ideas and strategies to improve health profession education and improve patient safety. “If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.” – Lao Tzu The State of Nebraska...   2 October 2018
GE Healthcare made an equity investment in SonoSim, a provider of ultrasound education and training. The partnership will offer enhanced education services across medical disciplines from women’s health and cardiology to point of care and primary care. As ultrasound continues to grow in all medical fields, GE Healthcare says it’s...   2 October 2018
Medic-CE, a provider of accredited online continuing education for emergency medical services (EMS) and fire professionals, launched Resiliency training that teaches first responders how to work through the trauma they experience in the field.   1 October 2018
National Park College (NPC) in Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas opened a nursing clinical simulation lab with the help of a $500,000 donation to the school last year and a $100,000 pledge per-year for three years for financial-aid packages for nursing students from CHI St. Vincent Hot Springs. The sim lab...   1 October 2018
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