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My Sunshine Coast
A touch-screen table that provides virtual journeys through the human body is one of the high-tech tools available for students at the new Sunshine Coast Health Institute at Birtinya. SCHI's Anatomage Table enables educators and students to interactively explore human anatomy, using three-dimensional, life-sized representations of body structures and organs.
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The Arab Tribune
The latest training tool at Marshall Medical Centers is no dummy. He has a pulse, tears, blinks his eyes, urinates, bleeds and has seizures — but he is not human. The SimMan 3G is an advanced patient simulator that displays neurological symptoms as well as physical ailments. "It's going to be excellent for teaching," said Tami Howard, RN, director of staff development and education at Marshall South. "Simulation is the wave of the future."
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Healthcare IT News
Leading enterprise IT companies — Amazon, Apple, IBM, Google, Microsoft — are investing heavily in artificial intelligence, cognitive computing and machine learning. And even though many healthcare providers are still in wait-and-see mode when it comes to these emerging technologies, there are tangible reasons to consider deploying them sooner rather than later.
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EMS1
Lifelong learning for EMS providers represents the promise of self-sought continuous professional development and the excitement of a profession that is making significant advances to improve patients' lives. Lifelong learning isn’t just good for patients, it is good for caregivers. Unfortunately, while virtually every caregiver has heard the term, not every caregiver has developed the skills. The first thing an EMS educator must do to help develop lifelong learners is to give them the resources so they can be lifelong learners.
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Network World
Holographic headsets are a central theme to augmented reality (AR) today, but the recent AR in Action Conference demonstrated the diversity of the field and the potential to include many more technologies to augment humans. The AR in Action Conference, held at the MIT Media Lab, expanded the definition of AR through a TED conference-like lens, delivering 70 diverse curated talks and 32 panels over two days to over 1,000 experts and practitioners in the field. The value of these holographic projection headsets was well represented with talks like the one by Harvard Medical School professor Jayender Jagadeesan, who spoke about surgical AR applications.
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TCT Magazine
3-D printer provider, 3D Systems has expanded its Virtual Surgical Planning service to include a virtual planning technique for cranial and craniofacial procedures. The new feature, VSP Cranial, is 510(k) cleared for use in the operating room and will enable surgeons to create a virtual pre-surgical plan that can be instrumented with sterilisable, patient-specific 3-D-printed anatomical models, guides and templates.
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Blended Learning with vSim® for Nursing and Scenarios from the National League for Nursing.
When students experience the same patient encounter through different technologies, it allows them to reinforce their knowledge and gradually build confidence and competence.
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eNews Park Forest
The American Academy of Pediatrics announces the launch of Artificial Perfection: Talking to Teens about Performance Enhancement a free, role-play simulation designed to prepare pediatricians and other child health professionals to lead real-life conversation with teens about appearance and performance-enhancing substances. The simulation engages users in role-play conversations with three virtual and emotionally responsive patients presenting with signs of appearance and performance-enhancing substances.
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Pocket Nurse helps thousands of health education programs operate efficiently with an extensive catalog of products that provide everything an educator needs. For more information visit pocketnurse.com, call 1-800-225-1600, or email cs@pocketnurse.com.
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Wichita State University
The cadaver lab in the College of Health Professions at Wichita State University is filled with models of body parts, various tools and donated bodies that are preserved in shiny, metal tanks. The lab gives students vital hands-on experience working with actual human organs and structures. Traditional and online tools are greatly enhanced by the active learning in the lab.
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Commercial-News
Danville Area Community College trustees will consider the low bid for the purchase of a new manikin for the nursing program. DACC President Stephen Nacco said a donation through the DACC Foundation will fund the purchase of the new equipment. The features of the manikin include airway management, breathing assessment, palpitations and auscultation, fluid resuscitation, echo cardiogram interpretation, defibrillation and ultrasound assessment. The manikin will be able to be integrated with existing training equipment.
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“Simulation made easy…” , our goal is to make your training more effective, expanding the range of your training , not your training complications. We have been helping medical and emergency service educators deliver better training outcomes with their students and staff for over 50 years- SIMULAIDS: “Training for Life.”
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KERA-TV
In Richardson, high school students are learning about all kinds of health care jobs, from emergency medical technician to nurse's aide. They're also getting hands-on experience, but they’re not getting it in a traditional classroom. Methodist Health System donated 7,000 square feet of its campus on W. Campbell Road to the Richardson Independent School District. Students enrolled in the health science program say practicing in a wing of the hospital makes it feel more real.
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Sentinel City™ is an immersive online educational simulation providing community health nursing students the ability to complete windshield surveys and other assignments digitally, while earning simulated learning clinical hours. It’s easy for course faculty to implement, and is aligned with QSEN, NLN core competencies, and AACN BSN Essentials. Learn more today!
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