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3D Printing Industry
Engineering students from the University of Alabama in Huntsville have 3-D printed medical training tools to be used by undergraduates in UAH’s College of Nursing. With the creation of 3-D devices such as a cricothyrotomy trainer, vein finder and an onychectomy trainer, aspiring nurses can safely practice important medical procedures on lifelike healthcare simulators.
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WTVT-TV
The parents of an 8-month-old say they could be planning their baby's funeral if not for the simulation training program at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida. Hector Roche and Victoria Rodriguez say more than 30 hours of training on a state-of-the-art simulator saved their child's life. Little Lucciano Roche gets help to breathe through a tracheotomy, breathing tube, and at-home ventilator. Eleven days ago, his breathing tube became completely blocked.
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University of Miami
Wearing an oxygen mask and neck brace, the teenager is conscious but confused when he arrives in the ER with a paramedic who advises he fell down stairs after swallowing an unknown quantity of antidepressants, opioids and alcohol in an attempted suicide. “Help me, please help me,” moans the 17-year-old named Oscar. “Where am I? Why is everything so blurry? Am I wearing 3D glasses?”
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Bloomberg Businessweek
El Camino Hospital, located in the heart of Silicon Valley, has a problem. Its nurses, tending to patients amid a chorus of machines, monitors and devices, are only human. One missed signal from, say, a call light — the bedside button patients press when they need help — could set in motion a chain of actions that end in a fall. “As fast as we all run to these bed alarms, sometimes we can’t get there in time,” says Cheryl Reinking, chief nursing officer at El Camino.
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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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FierceHealthcare
Physician burnout has been blamed on everything from working far too many hours to administrative fatigue stemming from bureaucratic pressure and dissatisfaction with EHR technology. Physicians subscribe to the myth of invulnerability, experts say, and don't want to ask for help. But there may be a key element missing from these explanations, according to a perspective from a fourth-year student at Harvard Medical School in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Lynn Hetzler
Researchers from Rutgers have developed an automated blood drawing and testing device that promises quick results. Speeding up blood testing could potentially improve hospital workflow and allow practitioners to spend more time treating patients. The research team published a description of their fully automated device online in the journal TECHNOLOGY.
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Modern Healthcare
The AMGA on Monday endorsed a set of 14 quality measures for payers to use to simplify providers' reporting process for value-based purchasing programs. The organization will present the measure set to the CMS to consider for using in its value-based purchasing programs. AMGA members argue that physicians have to report on too many measures in the agency's programs, which contributes to burnout and higher costs.
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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
The Washington Post
Public health officials and business leaders like Bill Gates have long warned that the world is not ready for the next pandemic. Now an initiative led by Tom Frieden, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has developed a tool that spotlights gaps in preparedness, and actions that countries and organizations can take to close them. The new website, PreventEpidemics.org, gives an individual score to each country and uses color codes to rank the world by five levels of preparedness.
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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.
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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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CIO Review
Virtual reality has been more and more portrayed as an immersive medium unlike any other, where it can transform the way we watch television shows, play games and create art. Media companies and brands continue to innovate using the VR experiences to build a channel for marketing and entertainment. Industries extending from automotive to healthcare are investing in VR for various purposes ranging from training and designing to medical treatment.
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ABC News
It started as a tool to keep babies safe at photo shoots, but two Brisbane photographers say their newborn mannequins are set to rock the medical training world. The world-first articulated doll was dreamed up inside Sandra and Brendon Moffatt's Springfield studio. Moffatt was working with an inexperienced assistant when she realized how risky practising poses with infants could be.
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Healthcare IT News
The Cleveland Clinic and Boston University Medical Center offered a look at some of the ways they are deploying technologies to strengthen the patient experience at the Patient Experience Summit. Empathy was the overarching theme at the Cleveland Clinic event. Adrienne Boissy, M.D., Cleveland Clinic Chief Experience Officer and chair of the conference, said the purpose of the conference, in fact, is to “keep us anchored in empathy” and to help the attendees become what she called empathy amplifiers.
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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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University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing via ScienceDaily
Nurse practitioners are providing an increasing proportion of primary care, which is in short supply in many areas of the country. NPs deliver quality care in retail clinics, community health centers, rural clinics, and in primary care and specialty medical practices. In an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania researchers call for modernizing the way Medicare pays for training nurses, and highlight a successful new model of cost-effectively training more advanced practice nurses to practice community-based primary care.
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