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Health Facilities Management
The American Medical Association's Interaction Studio at health technology incubator MATTER in Chicago started off a space where doctors and designers could come together and imagine the patient exam room of the future. Now that the 450-square-foot space has finally opened, it's clear that the concept has turned into something more. The new studio launched Nov. 4 with areas that mimic a waiting room, an office space and an exam area. Members of the tech incubator can test and demonstrate new technologies to learn how their products operate in real time within these simulated spaces, allowing them to make informed design tweaks before launching into the health care market.
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HealthDay News via Medical Xpress
Electronic portfolios are being used to transform medical students' assessments and track progress as students advance through medical training, according to a report published by the American Medical Association. Portfolios have emerged as a tool to assess student learning. At the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine a complex e-portfolio system has been developed that charts students' performance across a core set of competencies.
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Bangor Daily News
For family caregivers or health professionals caring for someone with Alzheimer's disease or another form of dementia, compassion is not enough.
"Compassion is essential, but if you have empathy, too, it’s a whole different thing," Kate Robinson, a registered nurse at the Island Nursing Home and Care Center in Deer Isle, Maine, said.
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WebMD
New, high-tech glasses may offer kids with "lazy eye" a hipper alternative to the traditional, dreaded eye patch, new research suggests.
Fashioned to look like snazzy ski eyewear, the glasses can function as normal prescription eyeglasses — but with a twist. They also can form a temporary LCD digital patch over one eye, mimicking the therapeutic impact of eye patches and eye drops — the standard treatment for lazy eye.
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MammaCare CBE Simulator-Trainer
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palpation skills required to detect small breast lesions and to reduce false positives. Universities and colleges use the MammaCare CBE Simulator-Trainer to validate breast exam competencies. Call MammaCare for a demonstration unit: 352.375.0607 MORE
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Lynn Hetzler
 A new study suggests that medics' use of continuous chest compressions with positive-pressure ventilation does not result in significantly higher rates of survival or favorable neurologic status than interrupting chest compressions for ventilation.
Approximately 326,200 people experienced out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in the United States in 2011, according to The Heart Foundation. Just over 10 percent of those treated by emergency medical services survived.
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The State Press
From pizza to telescopes, the products of 3-D printers have impressed the masses, but the three-dimensional creations conducted by Arizona State University biomedical engineering students are changing the way surgeons select the best-sized donor heart for children receiving heart transplants at the Phoenix Children's Hospital.
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CNN
A small, experimental wearable device has moved a step closer to helping patients who rely on kidney dialysis, according to a report.
For patients with kidney failure, the common treatment is to be hooked up to a dialysis machine at a hospital or clinic several times a week. In addition to the inconvenience, patients develop buildup of fluids and minerals between dialysis sessions, which can result in high blood pressure and breathing problems and require severe dietary restrictions.
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Provide leadership, manage patient simulation programs
Design curricula
Excel at teaching and assessment through high fidelity simulations
Develop programs designed to assure patient safety and quality in clinical settings
Participate in and generate innovative educational research.
For further information, please contact: Anthony Errichetti, PhD, CHSE 516-686-3928
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Time
Igor Spetic, 49, lost his right hand in a work-related accident five years ago. But on Oct. 9, he got to bring home an innovative prosthetic hand for the first time, one that not only has more precise gripping, but gives him back his sense of touch. The hand was created by researchers at Case Western Reserve University, which was granted $4.4 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for their work creating a prosthetic hand that can feel.
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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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Focused on assisting hospitals to better maximize their investment in robotic surgery, Mimic has over ten years of experience providing tools and support for robotic surgery training and program management.
Mimic’s robotic surgery simulation training helps surgeons learn in a safe environment, faster and more efficiently while working towards proficiency.
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The University of Alabama in Huntsville
It's your first day as a brand-new nurse, and it isn't going well. Your patient, an elderly woman with a terminal illness on the hospice unit, is struggling to take a breath as her worried family members look on. A few hours into your shift, when she ceases breathing for long periods of time, you recognize it as a sign of impending death. And before long, she's gone. Now her husband and daughter are looking to you to figure out what just happened - and what they're supposed to do next.
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JEMS.com
Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is a major public health concern, affecting 300,000 victims per year in Europe, and resulting in 420,000 annual 911 calls in the United States. Despite significant advances in the range of interventions and skills provided by EMS, little change has been seen in overall OHCA survival rates, with average survival to hospital discharge rates ranging from 8.6–20 percent.This variance may be influenced by a variety of factors such as mechanisms of reporting, health systems, geography and response time.
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