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Set your Program apart by becoming accredited through SSH! The next deadline to apply for both Full and Provisional Accreditation is on May 15, 2019. The application consists of two parts: an online questionnaire and the submission of an application packet. Learning more about this process is easy, just go to the SSH website to hear testimonials on how becoming accredited can help your Program gain recognition for your efforts to improve medical education and the quality of care patients receive. More information on Full Accreditation can be accessed online and details on Provisional Accreditation can be found here. And don’t forget, we’re happy to help answer any additional inquiries you have about SSH Accreditation! Just email Kristyn or Betsy with your questions. ~ Kristyn Gadlage
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The SimOps 2019 Planning Committee is now accepting course proposal submissions and SimVentors Showcase entries. SimOps 2019 will be held July 17-19, 2019 at Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) in Norfolk, Virginia.
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Medical News Today
Researchers from the University of Michigan have developed and are now testing a device they call "the epitome of precision medicine" that detects cancer in circulating blood. "Nobody wants to have a biopsy," says Dr. Daniel Hayes, the Stuart B. Padnos, Professor of Breast Cancer Research at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center in Ann Arbor. Biopsies are invasive and can be uncomfortable, yet they are currently the most accurate method of determining whether or not a person has cancer. But, Dr. Hayes suggests, "If we could get enough cancer cells from the blood, we could use them to learn about the tumor biology and direct care for the patients."
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Part of what makes the organ donation component of end-of-life care so complex is the network of professionals and organizations that need to communicate and collaborate in an emotionally charged and time-sensitive environment. Gift of Life Institute, an affiliate of Gift of Life Donor Program, is an international provider of organ and tissue donation education and has trained close to 9,500 professionals from 39 countries since 2004. Patricia Mulvania, a senior faculty member of Gift of Life Institute, says its OPO and many others meet proactively with hospitals to put processes in place so that organ donation becomes part of the hospital's culture.
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Laerdal's Simulation User Network (SUN) takes place April 24th-26th in Uncasville, Connecticut and is an opportunity to discover, unite and learn with fellow simulation educators. B-Line Medical will be present to demonstrate the latest SimCapture release and to discuss the exciting implications of their new partnership with Laerdal. We encourage you to attend SUN, as it will leave you feeling invigorated, inspired, and equipped with practical tools to incorporate into your training program. It’s a place to meet others who have objectives in simulation, connect with industry leading experts and experience best practices overall. Click the headline link for more information and to register.
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Forbes
When Dr. Vanaja Ragavan began building a mobile device to quickly diagnose infectious diseases and other acute illnesses using sound waves, she didn’t expect to move to a different city. The trained endocrinologist and former Food and Drug Administration medical officer with a long career in the pharmaceutical industry had recently started her medical diagnostics company, Aviana Molecular Technologies, in Philadelphia and knew all the components she’d need to build it: cutting-edge microfluidics that would manipulate patient body fluids, a device that could bombard target molecules with acoustic waves and a computer outfitted with powerful analytics to tell if the patient was infected with a pathogen or had other ailments.
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JAMA via Medical Bag
In a Viewpoint article published in JAMA, Dr. James E. Ip, from the Division of Cardiology at Cornell University Medical Center, New York City, discussed the clinical use of consumer-grade wearable devices for cardiac rhythm diagnosis. Study data from 2017 estimate that more than 50 million people in the U.S. wear a device to track physical activity. The accuracy of wearable devices for arrhythmia detection varies by technology type; smart watches, for example, use photoplethysmographic (PPG) sensors to estimate heart rate. PPG sensors are an optical technology that detect blood flow by applying light signals to the skin.
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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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Wheeling Intelligencer
Six area high school students got to try their hands at robotic surgery through a simulation with new robots at Wheeling Hospital in Wheeling, West Virginia. Wheeling Hospital began using its first da Vinci robotic surgical system last year. The hospital now has purchased two additional da Vinci systems. High school students with interests in medicine, engineering, biology and robotics were invited to a demonstration of the new robotic devices in the hospital’s auditorium. Surgeons at Wheeling Hospital performed 110 procedures with one robot between December and February, said Dr. Angelo Georges, chief medical officer.
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Physician Sense via MD Linx
Despite the poor public relations, it looks like Apple will continue to expand into healthcare and the business of health data. Recently, Cook said in a CNBC interview that Apple’s health-related work will be its "greatest contribution to mankind." The elephant in the room is the inevitability of a data breach. User data from the popular fitness and nutrition tracking app MyFitnessPal was breached in 2018, exposing the names, email addresses and passwords of 150 million people. The same year, the fitness app Strava revealed the locations of U.S. military personnel on secret bases. Perhaps foremost among the questions it raises should be, what are the HIPAA implications?
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Modeling the complex electrical waves that cause heart arrhythmias could provide the key to understanding and treating a major cause of death in the world. Until now, however, real-time modeling of those deadly waveforms within millions of interacting heart cells required especially powerful computer clusters—even supercomputers. Using graphics processing chips designed for gaming applications and software that runs on ordinary web browsers, researchers have moved this modeling of the deadly spiral wave heart arrhythmias to less costly computers and even to high-end smartphones.
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Science World Report
The digital era has been defined by radical disruption that's upended our daily lives, our political systems, and our economic means of production. Too little attention has been paid to the way that technology is transforming healthcare in this day and age, however, especially since there are increasingly wondrous developments in the field of medical technology that almost seem too good to be true. It's time to stop focusing on the scary ways that the world is changing and to pay more attention to the positive ways that technology is improving our lives.
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Next Generation Harvey realistically simulates nearly any cardiac disease at the touch of a button by varying blood pressure, pulses, heart sounds, murmurs and breath sounds. Harvey is the longest continuous university-based simulation project in medical education, and no other simulator presents cardiac bedside findings at the level of detail and fidelity found in Harvey.
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Working together to deliver seamless patient care is critical to improving the patient journey and reducing harm. As healthcare becomes more specialized, a patient will likely experience an increase in handoffs between clinicians and departments. SimMan® patient simulators support team training, facilitating effective communication during these transitions to identify and rectify risks along the way.
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The New Yorker
The students at Franklin Regional, which is seventeen miles east of Pittsburgh, had been trained to lock themselves inside classrooms during a "code red" event. In one room, a home economics teacher called 911 as she attended to an injured boy. A dispatcher asked where the "patient" had been hurt. "The lower abdomen," the teacher said. "On the right side." "Do you have any way to control the bleeding?" the dispatcher asked. "I’m putting pressure on it," the teacher said. She was stanching the blood with paper towels. This was helpful, the dispatcher told her, saying, "If it starts soaking through, I don’t want you to lift it up at all. Find anything else you can to put on top of that."
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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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AMA Journal of Ethics via Medical Bag
According to a study published in the AMA Journal of Ethics, the use of virtual patients for healthcare simulation is promising but requires educators to define appropriate roles of virtual patients in medical teaching, specifically how they are to be constructed and used. Authors sought to examine the potential of virtual patients and the underlying technology in medical education, identifying the promises and perils posed by using virtual patients in psychiatric intake teaching.
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