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| FROM THE DESK OF THE ASSOCIATE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR |
The efforts from all the fantastic volunteers and staff are coming together for another amazing IMSH! It looks like a great forecast not only for the weather, but also for the great lineup for this year’s content and many new events. We’re looking forward to seeing you in San Antonio in a few days, and if you have not yet registered there is still time to do so. imsh2019.com/registration
Join your healthcare simulation colleagues from around the world for many new conference elements including fun and informative Silent Disco sessions, a Saturday night President’s Diamond Ball, Sunday’s SimFit 5k Fun Run/Walk, or the SimHacks session plus hundreds of other educational offerings designed specifically for our healthcare simulation colleagues.
This year, attendees will enjoy four plenary speakers highlighted by a keynote address from Tali Sharot, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London where she directs the Affective Brain Lab and combines research in psychology, behavioral economics and neuroscience to reveal the forces that shape our decisions and beliefs. Sir Ken Robinson, internationally recognized authority in creativity and innovation in education and business will headline our Monday plenary. Tuesday’s plenary will feature Dr. Joel Selanikio, an award-winning physician, TED speaker, futurist and emergency responder. View a preview of his session. And wrapping us up on Wednesday is Director of Technology and Analyisis, a department within Design and Engineering at Walt Disney World, Michael Tschanz.
A special offer for those who can’t make it to IMSH this year, the keynote address on Sunday at 1:00 PM NACST (North American Central Standard Time) and will be live streamed free through the SSH website for anyone across the globe to view! Thank you to HealthySimulation.com for sponsoring the session!
Hope to see you soon in the great state of Texas!
~ Kevin Helm
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IVIR
IVIR (Information Visualization and Innovative Research, Inc.) supports the simulation community by providing innovative solutions to advance medical education, training, assessment, and research. Military and civilian clients benefit from our 100+ years of combined experience developing and researching sophisticated mannequins, as well as VR and AR medical and surgical training simulators. Feel free to contact us at info@ivirinc.com to discuss the second phase of our Joint Evacuation and Transport Simulation (JETS) development effort or learn more here.
Limbs & Things
When Margot Cooper started Limbs & Things in 1990, she had a vision of moving clinical education away from cadavers and animals which were difficult and expensive to use. From the very first day of building models on her kitchen table through today, we continue that vision, striving daily to provide realistic, anatomically accurate, and cost-effective training solutions for healthcare practitioners. Margot was recently awarded the U.K. 2018 Entrepreneur of the year by the prestigious Lloyds Bank National Business Awards. Please join us in congratulating her for her dedication to clinical learning for the past three decades.
As an accomplished medical illustrator, a key component of Margot’s vision was the development of clinically accurate models that would enhance learning and improve competence and confidence in procedural skills. To this end, we proudly invest time and money in Research & Development, prototype evaluation, and consultation with clinical experts to meet the latest curricular needs with safe materials and processes.
At Limbs & Things, our models are still handmade to order from our newly expanded factory in Bristol, UK. They undergo strict quality control processes to ensure they are meeting the established high-quality standards that our customers have come to expect before being shipped to our offices in the USA, Australia, and Sweden. Additionally, we now have a dedicated international team and many distributors around the world to meet the growing demand for our products.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank the many organizations, clinicians, and specialists that have collaborated with us over the past 30 years to create needed products that fill gaps in training and ensure patient safety through mastery learning using our models. These global collaborations are important to us and to the learners who use our models.
Happy New Year from all of us at Limbs & Things global! We are proud and honored to be a part of healthcare simulation. Please come and see us at booth #217 at IMSH. We look forward to connecting with you face-to-face!
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In order to grapple with spending increases, the U.S. healthcare industry is transforming the way physicians are compensated to provide care to patients from the current fee-for-service model to one in which medical providers are paid a flat fee for servicing a defined group of patients. This pivot in reimbursement is often discussed as far off. A survey by Numerof & Associates, a St. Louis, Missouri-based healthcare strategy consultancy, finds that most health organizations have been slow to make the shift.
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Virtual Clinical Scenarios are dynamic, gamified online assignments that enable nursing students to practice clinical decision-making, earn simulated clinical hours or even prepare for the NCLEX. With a portfolio of scenarios to choose from, nursing educators can easily integrate them into related courses and curricula. ATTEND A WEBINAR:
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Healthcare DIVE
The consumer platform company looked at five healthcare chatbots: Ada, HealthTap, Mediktor, Your.MD and Symptomate. Chatbot apps were especially challenged by complex conditions, with all experiencing sharp declines in scores when asked to diagnose complex symptoms, such as food poisoning — often leading to alarming results. Consumers also had concerns about personal health information and HIPAA compliance, especially with less familiar brands.
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Nursing requires hands-on training. But research has found that university curriculum often goes light on one of life's universal experiences — dying. So some colleges have gone to new lengths to make the training more meaningful.
There's a sound near the end — the death rattle. People stop swallowing. The lungs fill up. There can be involuntary moaning. "So you get all that noise. And that's really distressing for family members," Professor Sara Camp of Nashville's Belmont University says.
Camp and other nursing instructors at Belmont wear headsets and watch video monitors in a dark closet.
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U.S. Army
Pfc. Donte Pietrowski, a combat medic assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Brigade, 35th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division, treats an entrance wound on the chest of a simulated casualty during the Cacti Medic Course at the Medical Simulation Training Center, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, Dec. 18, 2018. The Schofield Barracks MSTC is one of only 21 medical simulation training centers Army-wide that provides scenario-based, combat-focused medical training prescribed by U.S. Army doctrine to effectively treat casualties and save lives on the battlefield.
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New York University via Futurity
As part of the New York University’s Holodeck Project, Winslow Burleson, a professor in the Rory Meyers College of Nursing, and his SuperComputing Collaboration team are advancing simulation-based education by testing new technologies. “We’re really creating the future of what the next generation of the classroom could be,” Burleson says.
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MHealth Intelligence
Healthcare providers and parents may someday be able to identify anxiety and depression in young children by tracking their activity with mHealth wearables. Researchers at the University of Vermont and the University of Michigan have reported an 81 percent success rate using connected health devices and AI technology to detect “internalizing disorders” in children between the ages of 3 and 7. The results of a study conducted on some 63 children were recently reported in the journal PLOS ONE.
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Chicago Tribune
Drug users suffering an opioid overdose might soon have access to an unusual lifeline — a smartphone app. University of Washington researchers have developed an app that can detect when a person’s breathing dangerously slows or stops. The Second Chance app accurately detected opioid overdose symptoms more than nine times out of 10 in experimental tests, which took place at a facility in Vancouver, Canada, where addicts can legally bring illicit drugs and inject them under medical supervision.
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American Medical Association
Medical school is a formal introduction to the clinical skills of a physician and an informal one to the often enormous stresses the profession entails. Medical students would do well to adopt self-care behaviors to help them during their studies and that will serve their needs as physicians. The AMA offers a wide range of insights on medical student well-being.
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The American Society of Anesthesiologists® and CAE Healthcare bring simulation to you with Anesthesia SimSTAT! Practicing physicians will experience high-fidelity scenarios in a virtual environment to help improve performance in the management of anesthesia emergencies while fulfilling continuing medical education and MOCA 2.0® Part II and IV requirements.
New scenario now available!
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Young children have particularly unique anatomy and physiological responses to trauma. For these reasons, healthcare providers must be trained to effectively recognize, diagnose, and respond to a critically ill child. SimBaby allows learners and healthcare professionals to address respiratory emergencies, shock and cardiopulmonary events to improve patient outcomes. Learn more
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WBRE/WYOU-TV via WBRE-TV
Getting a speedy diagnosis and treatment are critical to limiting the damage of stroke. A local health chain is accomplishing both, thanks to a virtual assist. A neurologist can play a key role caring for a patient during the onset of a stroke. As Eyewitness News Healthbeat Reporter Mark Hiller explains, thanks to something called stroke telemedicine, highly skilled neurologists are always available when seconds count.
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B-Line Medical
 SimCapture Pro is B-Line Medical’s simulation management platform’s newest game changing product. SimCapture Pro leverages a remarkably small on-site AV footprint and a fully cloud-based software and storage infrastructure to remove traditional pain-points associated with AV installations and IT maintenance. It is ideal for educators who are looking for a powerful tool that allows for seamless scenario management, capture, debriefing and reporting. With SimCapture Pro’s affordable subscription pricing and seamless upgrades to additional platform tiers, small and large healthcare simulation programs alike can benefit from the next generation SimCapture. B-Line Medical’s SimCapture is in use at over 500 healthcare institutions in 35 counties, in fact, 70% of U.S. News and World Report top hospitals, medical schools and nursing schools are now using SimCapture's comprehensive event capture tools to rapidly improve teamwork, team communication, equipment usage, and processes during healthcare training and events.
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Daily Mountain Eagle
Students in Jasper High School's health science program have an opportunity to learn in a state-of-the-art classroom from a teacher and nurse highly regarded in her field. Registered nurse Vicki Lyle teaches all the technical education health science courses at Jasper High as part of the school's involvement in the HOSA-Future Health Professionals program, formerly referred to as Health Occupations Students of America. Lyle was recently recognized by Applied Educational Systems — an online curriculum for various educational fields — for her teaching methods in anatomy.
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More effectively design, manage, deliver and measure screen-based, physical and VR simulation training with a single solution. Health Scholars One™ blended learning platform and content applications are designed specifically for clinicians and promote patient safety scenarios that are often not readily available or difficult to scale.
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Cerner Ambulatory Practice Management
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Specialty Practice Management is a complete front- and back-office solution that offers a rapid return on your investment and improved satisfaction among your staff. Practices with 10 or fewer providers turn to this comprehensive solution to manage self-pay accounts and eliminate the common mistakes that prevent or delay insurance reimbursement.
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Scott E. Rupp
A new report by Oliver Wyman says that women may take three to five years longer than men to reach CEO-level positions across different types of industries despite their making up to 80 percent of buying and usage decisions in healthcare. For healthcare specifically, women are absent from the C-suite, making up only about 30 percent of senior leadership and just 13 percent of CEOs. These meager numbers don’t match the number of women in the workforce, however, who represent as much as 65 percent of it.
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At King’s College London, students from adult and mental health nursing have taken part in simulation exercises designed to help them manage patients with co-occurring mental and physical health problems.
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