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Health Exec
At first, the 2013 Boston Marathon was going more smoothly for hospitals in and around downtown Boston compared to the prior year’s event, when a heat wave meant more runners needed medical attention. David Reisman, MHA, senior administrative director of emergency medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, admitted he had begun to think it would be an easy day. That changed just before 2:50 p.m., when two bombs exploded at the marathon’s finish line less than two miles away from Mass General, an attack which would leave three people dead and 264 injured, with more than a dozen losing limbs and others suffering second- or third-degree burns.
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Stanford Medicine
“I heard a crash and went outside to see that my neighbor had fallen off his roof. His elbow was out of place, but I was able to put it back and splint it with a piece of cardboard.” - Nisha
Nisha, aged 38, is considered past childbearing years in her village of Balia, India. For that reason alone, she would typically be marginalized and considered a burden in her patriarchal community. But last year, Nisha redefined her perceived worth when she became a basic health care provider and learned how to take care of other villagers and neighbors. Nisha completed her initial training on a new, app-based curriculum developed half a world away at Stanford.
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CNET
You sit down to talk with your doctor, but you sense he's in a rush to get to the next patient. Add to this the lack of training many physicians have had in effective patient communication, and it becomes nearly impossible to have an engaging conversation about your health. But virtual humans might help to change that. Simulations using virtual patients are training healthcare professionals to be more empathetic and to tackle important conversations on topics like mental health and substance abuse.
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Forbes
"I’m close to artificial intelligence and it scares the hell out of me,” said Elon Musk during HBO's Westworld panel at South by Southwest this year. “It’s capable of vastly more than anyone knows, and the improvement is exponential.” Musk cited the example of AlphaGo, Google DeepMind’s artificial-intelligence program best known as the first computer program to defeat a professional human player at the board game, "Go."
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In the new Patient Management and Delegation Digital Nursing Assignment, the student becomes a Charge Nurse performing management and leadership activities. This concept-specific assignment provides 4-6 simulated clinical hours and can be easily integrated into Management, Leadership, Capstone, Nursing Fundamentals, Med-Surg, clinical make-ups and other various nursing courses.
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Romper
By the time a pregnant woman has her baby, she is likely to have become a partial expert in topics like c-section interventions, preeclampsia, analgesia, episiotomies, skin-to-skin contact, cervical effacement, hep-locks, caffeine consumption and the perils of brie, to name just a few. Still, many expecting moms will find conflicting information between the advice offered in books, and that given by their OB-GYNs, or the American Congress of Obstetrics and Gynecology. These differences of opinion can complicate decision-making for pregnant women and potentially impact the trust between patient and doctor.
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Hitech News Daily
Research activities in utilizing deep learning to automate the process of disease identification in medical images are gaining momentum. Researchers from Stanford University have shown that this technique can be used for detection of skin cancer from images. On the other hand, researchers at Google have used this technique for identification of anomalies in chest X-rays.
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Becker's Hospital Review
Clinician burnout is one of the most important issues facing healthcare leaders today, though executives are more optimistic than clinicians that burnout conditions will improve, according to a recent survey published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Caldwell University
Students at Caldwell University had the opportunity to witness a simulated event aimed at preventing maternal death. In introducing the event to the students, Dr. Brenda Petersen, associate dean of the School of Nursing and Public Health, cited statistics from the Centers for Disease Control showing preventable patient death is the third-leading cause of death in the United States. She said the United States has the worst rate of maternal deaths in the developed world, and 60 percent of these deaths are preventable.
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The American Society of Anesthesiologists® and CAE Healthcare bring simulation to you! For the first time, practicing physicians will experience highfidelity scenarios in a virtual environment. This training helps improve performance in the management of anesthesia emergencies and fulfills continuing medical education and MOCA 2.0® Part II and IV requirements.
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Health Data Management
It currently takes more than $100 million and eight years to bring a new high-risk medical device to market. These numbers are growing every year, but what if those numbers could be cut in half? What if medical devices could be designed and safely tested in the virtual world before ever being used on a real person?
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Reuters
Medicare patients’ risk of dying in the month after an operation steadily fell as their surgeon’s age increased, Dr. Yusuke Tsugawa of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA in Los Angeles and colleagues report in The BMJ.
There was little difference between mortality among patients of male or female doctors, with one exception. “Patients treated by female surgeons in their 50s had the lowest mortality across all groups,” Tsugawa told Reuters Health in a telephone interview.
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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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Yale School of Nursing
For many healthcare providers, meeting the needs of patients is a daily if not an hourly challenge. Increasing regulation, a plethora of new technologies and information, an aging population, the needs of the disenfranchised, and greater consumer expectations and awareness exert unrelenting demands at every level of care. All of this is further complicated by a shortage of physicians, particularly in primary care. 55 million Americans live in areas with a shortage of primary care providers.
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DOTmed
Three-D printing is a game-changing technology for patients with congenital heart disease, according to a new review paper published in JACC: Basic to Translational Science. “3-D printing enables precise pre-surgical planning and simulation, an ideal tool for trainee education, patient and family counseling and facilitates effective communications between multi-disciplinary teams,” Dr. Shafkat Anwar, lead author and pediatric cardiologist at Washington University, told HCB News.
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WRC-TV
Groundbreaking technology allows doctors and patients to look inside their own brains.
“We can put on virtual reality goggles and fly through the skull,” said Dr. Walter Jean, a neurosurgeon at George Washington University Hospital.
Precision Virtual Reality, inspired by flight simulators used to train fighter pilots, offers a 3-D view of the brain.
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