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Bloomberg
A woman with late-stage breast cancer came to a city hospital, fluids already flooding her lungs. She saw two doctors and got a radiology scan. The hospital’s computers read her vital signs and estimated a 9.3 percent chance she would die during her stay.
Then came Google’s turn.
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News-Medical.net
A new mathematical simulation approach predicts the efficacy of pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) medications, which help prevent HIV infection. The framework, presented in PLOS Computational Biology by Sulav Duwal and Max von Kleist of Freie Universität Berlin and colleagues, could help streamline development of new PrEP treatments.
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Health Data Management
Intermountain Healthcare is operating a simulation technology center that is training clinicians from around the United States and other countries, using simulated patient care scenarios designed to increase patient safety and improve clinical outcomes.
“We have clinicians come in and practice cases as teams that are not commonly seen in the hospital, preparing them for situations that could arise,” says Phillip Wortham, simulation program manager for operations and technology at Intermountain, who oversees simulation at the health system’s 22 hospitals.
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Healthcare IT News
A recent anonymous international study from the University of California Cyber Team funded by MedCrypt found that a few healthcare delivery organizations and vendors believe between 100 and 1,000 patients had adverse events from compromised healthcare infrastructure cybersecurity events, like ransomware, malware, compromised EHRs or an attack on facility systems.
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Healthcare Learning Innovations’ Digital Nursing Assignments provide students with a safe and convenient online environment to practice clinical decision making. Prioritization of Care and Patient Management and Delegation are two concept-specific assignments that can be easily integrated into Management, Leadership, Capstone, Nursing Fundamentals, Med-Surg, clinical make-ups and other nursing courses.
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Healthcare Infromatics
Health systems across the country are focused on digital transformation with an eye toward lowering costs and improving access to and quality of care. At Seattle-based Providence St. Joseph Health, technology leaders are making significant advances in the health system’s digital journey, offering robust capabilities that empower patients to become more active participants in their own health.
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VRFocus
Mentice, a leader in virtual reality (VR) based interventional medical simulation solutions, has welcomed the recent publication of a new research paper that looked into the use of high-end VR simulation for the acquisition of skills for the minimally invasive procedure.
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Forbes
“As a jazz musician, you have individual power to create the sound. You also have a responsibility to function in the context of other people who have that power also,” said Wynton Marsalis.
We’re at a tipping point in health technology. Vast resources of data have been unlocked through the transition to electronic health records.
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Health Data Management
UCHealth is planning to create an innovation center and work with medical technology start-up companies on artificial intelligence, big data, decision support, virtual health and wearables, among other technologies.
The nine-hospital Colorado delivery system, led by University of Colorado Hospital in Denver, seeks to build off its past experiences in working with innovative companies to improve the efficiency of operating rooms and the accuracy of medication prescribing.
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News-Medical.net
Value in Health, the official journal of ISPOR (the professional society for health economics and outcomes research), announced today the publication of new guidance regarding the selection and evaluation of wearable devices for use in regulatory trials and to support labeling claims.
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Laerdal Medical
If you’re thinking simulation, what’s the right level of fidelity for you? The answer depends on your training objectives, the experience level of your learners, and your budget. Task trainers, standardized patients, hybrid simulation, and high-fidelity simulators all have their place. This article will help you make the best choice to improve maternal outcomes. Read more
Nasdaq
Healthcare isn’t just about treatment, it's also about diagnosis, prevention and more. In these areas, advanced technologies are playing an increasingly significant role. The confluence of advanced technology with the healthcare ecosystem is set to bring in more efficiency, speed, and cost optimization for hospitals and practitioners while making medical treatment more accessible, timely, and affordable for patients.
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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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Mastery Learning is a form of competency-based medical education. Use of the model has been shown to improve patient care quality and lower health care costs. This five day hands on course will equip you with the skills to develop mastery learning curricula for procedures, communication and team based clinical skills.
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Taranaki Daily News via Stuff
Meet Oscar - either the luckiest, or unluckiest, patient at the Taranaki Base Hospital. He's been stabbed in the stomach, had his leg amputated and suffered a cardiac arrest - among other medical emergencies. But Oscar is no ordinary patient - he's a $120,000 electronic manikin who bleeds, breathes, blinks, has a heartbeat and can even talk, and he's helping to train the surgical team at the Taranaki District Health Board.
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Digital Commerce 360
Healthcare organizations are reading the memo that consumers are taking more management of their health and wellness. New research from Accenture reveals that 94 percent of health executives believe that treating patients and customers as partners is important or very important to gain consumer trust — and so is ensuring the security of consumer data a trend 92 percent of executives also say is important to very important.
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East Peoria Times-Courier
With pigs hearts and cadavers galore, the Pre-Med Immersion Course at Jump Simulation would scare off all but the most serious candidates for medical school.
Ten students from area colleges peered into piles of pig innards while learning about coronary artery bypass surgery.
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This intensive immersion in healthcare simulation is led by experienced educators and covers all high-level elements and concepts involved in running a program. Learn more.
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Information Age
All over the world, many governments face countless issues in their quest for a digitized health service. The healthcare system, as a whole, faces unprecedented challenges, thanks to a reduction in resources – both in terms of staff and finance – as well as rising expectations and an escalating demand for digitized services.
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