iVAS : international Virtual Associaton of Surgeons meeting

25 04 2008

Agenda (SL Time):

11:00 AM Welcome and introduction to iVAS

James Kinross (Co-Chair): Lancelot Spitteler

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Julian Leong (Co-Chair) Julian Nikolaidis

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- Imperial College London, UK.

11:10 AM Keynote

Professor LeRoy Heinrichs - Stanford University Medical Media and Information Technologies (SUMMIT), USA.

11:40 AM Eye tracking in surgery

Mr. Marios Nicolaou

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- Plastic Surgery SPR, St. George’s Hospital, UK.

12:00 PM Building a surgical robot

Dr. Mitch Lum and Hawkeye King

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- BioRobotics laboratory University of Washington, USA.

12:20 PM Closing remarks

Professor Guang-Zhong Yang

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- Imperial College London, UK

12:30 PM Questions and networking

 

And thanks to Kate Miles / Milesy Mighty, the Conference Manager, for the organization

Agenda/program, help desk (free Tshirt !), and the photos of the users / speakers.

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The audience

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The speakers

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Eye tracking systems :

- Nanodave - Eye tracking Real MISH (video)

- Dr Marios Eye Control by G Mylonas (video)

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Few things about 3D healthcare

6 04 2008

No link with ‘2nd Life’, only some few cool things about 3D healthcare online. 

 

  • Games for Health 4th Annual Conference

Gamesforhealth

This will be May 8-9, 2008 Baltimore MD.

A part will be of course about virtual worlds and health ….

Details of the core conference are at http://www.gamesforhealth.org

 

  • Sophia’s garden

Healing in Community™Online is a virtual world that combines the richness of real-life collaboration with online learning to help families of children with life-threatening and chronic conditions harness the power of community to address all of their needs.

A Flickr set, a Slideshare space, aaaand ….. an extension in a virtual world.

Is it There ? Need to investigate.

Click on the image for the video

 Click on the image to see the video.

Ref : http://www.sophiasgarden.org/

 

  • Mediteca - Medical Clinical Simulator 3.0

A spanish work : demo in flash online.

MCS  

http://www.medicalsimulator.net/

 

  • Pulse!   The Virtual Clinical Learning Lab

The most expensive serious game is a healthcare simulation of 
10 millions US$.

 

Here is the video of demonstration.

Not only expensive … impressive and beautiful !

Ref : http://www.sp.tamucc.edu/pulse/home.asp




West Palomar Hospital : my visit

27 03 2008

I have read about this project that it is a waste of money and necessarily of time and energy. Well, we need to remember what Aimee Weber say about Second Life : “it’s a theme park”.

east view

Here the theme is a “healthcare hotel”. It’s like the Aloft hotel experience : a test and demonstration 3D space.

Map of the sim / the hospital

The sim and the building are designed. Of course, the car park is too small. They are always too small. But the map is studied. Looking at, it is obvious that it’s a copy of a (in construction) real building. I love the access for the heavy lorries to the logistic services and the pharmacy. Well done !

Scan in the ward

Scan at the bed in the patient room

The EMR on the wall

The Electronic Medical Record on the wall

Inside the hospital, the spaces to visit are limited to the hall, the patient room, and an examination room. That’s enough for the demonstration.

PalomarWest Hospital RFID Wrist Band

The Palomar West Hospital RFID Wrist Band

The visitor is guided during all his visit since the moment he wear the “Palomar West Hospital RFID Wrist Band” on his left forearm. All is designed for demonstration and live experience and it’s well done.

 

 

The first time  I’m gone there, at the opening, I met Knoh Oh and MB Chevalier. A great pleasure.

PalomarWest Hospital

Next times I come, it was always someone on the sim visiting. :-) What I call a success !




IBM Virtual Healthcare Island : a video

7 03 2008

Interactive environment displays IBM’s vision for consumer-driven healthcare




Cisco opens the ‘Hospital of the Future’

25 02 2008

Cisco announce the launch of the ‘Hospital of the Future’ in Second Life. Working with Palomar West Hospital, the largest health system provider in Southern California, they have created a healthcare campus to showcase the foresight of PalomarWest and the Cisco Connected Health vision.

The official ribbon cutting ceremony was this 25 feb 2008 at 08:00 AM SLT, at the PalomarWest Hospital Island(SLURL)!

Source : Cisco blog 




IBM opens his Healthcare Island

25 02 2008

 Need to go there to have a look ! Great !
An hospital, a pharmacy … :-)
Source : CNN (copy and paste below)

IBM (NYSE: IBM) debuted at HIMSS®08 its newest island in Second Life: IBM Virtual Healthcare Island. The island is a unique, three-dimensional representation of the challenges facing today’s healthcare industry and the role information technology will play in transforming global healthcare delivery to meet patient needs.

The island supports the strategic healthcare vision that IBM released in October 2006, entitled, Healthcare 2015: Win-Win or Lose-Lose, A Portrait and a Path to Successful Transformation. The paper paints a picture of a Healthcare Industry in crisis — of health systems in the United States and many other countries that will become unsustainable by the year 2015. To avoid “lose-lose” scenarios in which global healthcare systems “hit the wall” and require immediate and forced restructuring, IBM calls for what it defines as a “win-win” option: new levels of accountability, tough decisions, hard work and focus on the consumer.

The IBM Virtual Healthcare Island is designed with a futuristic atmosphere and provides visitors with an interactive demonstration of IBM’s open-standards-based Health Information Exchange (HIE) architecture. Working with project leads in the U.S., the island was designed and built by an all-IBM-India team.

Starting from the patient’s home, avatars create their own Personal Health Records (PHRs) in a secure and private environment and watch as it is incorporated into an array of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems that can be used at various medical facilities. As they move from one island station to the next, they experience how the development of a totally integrated and interoperable longitudinal Electronic Health Record (EHR) is used within a highly secured network that allows access only by patient-authorized health systems and family members.

Patient avatars arrive and are welcomed at the Central Park and then visit a Central Information Hub, where IBM’s view of the healthcare industry and the power of information technology to transform it are presented. An amphitheater on the Hub’s second floor provides an area that can support virtual meetings, complete with a large video screen and accompanying slide presentation on IBM’s HIE architecture and the positive impact that this technology can have in the transformation of the Healthcare Industry.

Visitors can then walk, fly or use “transporters” to visit the various island stations:

– The Patient’s Home: In the secure environment of a private home, patient avatars can initiate a PHR and populate it with their personal health characteristics and clinical history, accessed and downloaded from physician EMR data. They can also establish privacy and security preferences as well as health directives. The ground floor demonstrates secure messaging with health systems and activates the initial PHR. Using a transporter to move upstairs, patients use home health devices to take weight, blood pressure and blood sugar readings in the privacy of a bedroom, further incorporating this information into the PHR, which is shown on presentation screens.

– The Laboratory: This stop offers laboratory and radiology suites to help avatars extend their understanding of the benefits of HIE. Here, patients can check in at a Patient Kiosk and have blood work and radiology tests performed. The use of EHRs — revealing only appropriate portions of the PHRs — shows how consumers can also benefit through cost and time savings.

– The Clinic: Patient avatars transport or walk from the Lab to the Clinic, where a welcome from their primary-care physician awaits. A combination of scripting and information screens supports simulation of a patient exam, after which an electronic prescription is generated, and the continued development of the EHR is explained on nearby screens.

– The Pharmacy: Here, avatars can check in at a Patient Kiosk that simulates the verifying of drug information. They then receive their prescriptions and update their PHRs/EHRs with new medication data. The HIE architecture demonstrates how use of PHR/EHR technology can prevent consumers from purchasing medications that are contra-indicated given the medicines they presently require, as well as alerting them about potential drug-to-drug interactions. The PHR/EHR is again updated. — The Hospital: In this futuristic, three story structure, avatars arrive for a scheduled visit with a specialist. Physicians’ offices, patient rooms and exam rooms are all simulated here.

– The Emergency Room: Avatars can chose to experience a virtual emergency by “touching” a specially scripted control. This engages a medical episode and a ride on a fast gurney directly into the private and secure emergency treatment area, where a special screen is programmed to reveal the full incorporation of the PHR to ensure proper treatment.

“We are pleased to offer our IBM Virtual Health Island as a tool for our healthcare customers and our worldwide sales force. The island allows each healthcare stakeholder to envision how the total system can be affected by intercession at each juncture of the healthcare delivery process,” said Dan Pelino, General Manager, IBM Global Healthcare & Life Sciences Industry. “We believe that the use of our new virtual world provides an important, next-generation Internet-based resource to show how standards; business planning; the use of a secured, extensible and expandable architecture; HIE interoperability; and data use for healthcare analytics, quality, wellness and disease management are all helping to transform our industry.”

IBM’s Healthcare & Life Sciences (HCLS) Industry will continue to develop the new island in months to come. The island can perform as a virtually “always on” demonstration tool for IBM’s sales personnel. A video version of the island is also under production.

IBM believes in the significant promise of virtual-worlds technologies far beyond today’s usage: the next evolutionary phase of the Internet. IBM is helping clients and partners to conduct business inside virtual worlds and to connect the virtual world with the real world through a richer, more immersive Web environment.

Second Life is a 3D online world created by Linden Lab, a company founded in 1999 by Philip Rosedale, to create a revolutionary new form of shared 3D experience. Last October, IBM and Linden Lab announced their intent to jointly develop new technologies and methodologies based on open standards that will help advance the future of 3D virtual worlds.




MS island VUmc fiesta !

23 02 2008

- More than 50 avatars (need to be on 2 sims) dancing for a big, big fiesta ! - More than 6 hours of music for Multiple Sclerosis.
posted by Daneel Ariantho on MS Island VUmc using a blogHUD : [permalink]




Medicine 2.0 : a new reference

18 02 2008

Scienceroll In World

Aaaaahh, Scienceroll ! Thanks Bertalan “Berci Dryke” Mesko for his work.

It’s a new keystone of the medicine 2.0.
With a lot of Second Life inside.
And I love to see me in this great slideshow (on the slide 12 in the classroom).




Multiple sclerosis / sclérose en plaque : 23 feb 2008 Big SL concert

17 02 2008

English / Français

[En]

What is Multiple Sclerosis? (from www.msif.org)

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is one of the most prevalent diseases of the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) and directly affects an estimated 2.5 million people around the world.
Myelin, one of the fatty substances that sheathe, insulate and protect nerve fibres, aids the rapid transmission of nerve signals throughout the body. It is the speed and efficiency with which these impulses are conducted that permits smooth, rapid and co-ordinated movements to be performed with little conscious effort. MS attacks this myelin, disrupting the ability of the nerves to
transmit signals to and from the brain and producing the various symptoms of
MS.
The sites where myelin is lost (plaques or lesions) appear as hardened (scar)
areas. In MS these scars appear at different times and in different areas of the
brain and spinal cord.

Quick facts
• More women than men have MS, with a ratio of two men to three women affected.
• Sclerosis means scars; these are the plaques or lesions in the brain and spinal cord.
• MS is not directly hereditary, although genetic susceptibility plays a part in its development.
• MS is not contagious.
• There are a wide range of symptoms including fatigue, balance and co-ordination problems and visual and cognitive disturbances.
• There is no drug that can cure MS, but treatments are now available which can modify the course of the disease.

 

The ant Pat had post on his blog about MS in SL. So I remember I was gone on MS Island VuMC few months ago, taking a look at this new healthcare place on the Main Grid “Agni” (Linden Lab).

Lawrence Agnomen (here is his post about) join me 10 minutes after I start to visit the sim again.

MS island VuMC

This sim is the island of VU university medical center and the MS Center Amsterdam.

This is a pilot project to see if a virtual world and community can have a positive influence on the wellbeing of people with MS.

This project is a cooperation of:
-    VU university medical center
-    MS Center Amsterdam
-    MSWeb
-    Dutch MS Research Foundation
-    Dutch MS Society (MSVN)
-    Multiple Sclerosis International Federation (MSIF)

In the main building there is more information about

these organizations, a meeting room for people with MS and other interested parties, and a presentation and consultation room.

Nearby is now a place for the upcoming party.

MS island VuMC

We met there gezellie Tigerpaw , Byker Kondor, the noob (out of the photo), and Maarten Supercharge, the webmaster of www.msweb.nl.

  MS island VuMC

The invitation :

MS island VuMC

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Ladies and gentlemen!!
We are proud to present the final line-up for the “Global Dinner Party” benefit concert on saterday february 23th. We start at 19:00 uur West-European time (18:00 uur GMT, 1:00pm in New York and 10:00am SLT).
The program looks like this (times are SLT):
10:00am Opening by house-deejay, DJ Maarten Supercharge
11:00am Live concert by Carmen Roeth from the Netherlands, who will sing for 2 hours!
01:00am Live concert by Nikita Lumet from the Netherlands
02:00pm Live concert by Grateful Stryker from the United States
03:00pm “Rock with DJ Pre”
The gaps between the performances will be filled by DJ Pre

DO NOT MISS THIS MEGA LIVE EVENT WITH MORE THEN 6 HOURS OF LIVE MUSIC!!

Come to the podium at MS Island VUmc
SLURL : MS Island VUmc (141,184,2 8)
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*The MS Island VUmc is an initiative of the University of Amsterdan VU Medical Centre. Involved are the MS Centre Amsterdam, MSweb, MS Society Netherlands, the MS Research Foundation and the International MS Federation (MSIF).
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[Fr]

Selon Wikipédia, La sclérose en plaques (abrégée de manière courante en “SEP”) est une maladie neurologique chronique et souvent invalidante. Elle est multifactorielle et ses manifestations cliniques sont liées à une démyélinisation des fibres nerveuses de la substance blanche du système nerveux central (cerveau, moëlle épinière et nerf optique). Elle touche environ 80 000 personnes en France (prévalence), et environ 2 000 personnes de plus par an (incidence). 70 % des nouveaux patients sont de jeunes adultes entre 20 et 40 ans, dont près de deux tiers de femmes. C’est une importante cause de handicap.

La fourmi Pat a mis sur son blogue un billet intitulé “la SEP dans Second Life“. Du coup, je me suis souvenu que j’étais allé sur MS Island VuMC il y a quelques mois déjà, simplement pour découvrir ce nouveau lieu concacré à la santé sur la Main Grid “Agni” de Linden Lab (Il va falloir prendre l’habitude de préciser les Grids maintenant qu’OpenSim est là).

Lawrence Agnomen (qui blogue ici à ce sujet) m’a rejoint 10 minutes après le début de ma nouvelle visite des lieux.

Cette sim est l’île du centre médical universitaire de Vu et du Centre SEP d’Amsterdam.

C’est un projet pilote réalisé pour explorer si un monde et une communauté virtuels peuvent avoir une influence positive sur le bien-être de personnes atteintes de SEP.

Ce projet est le fruit de la coopération :
-    du Centre Médical Universitaire de Vu
-    du Centre SEP d’Amsterdam
-    de MSWeb
-    de la Fondation Hollandaise pour la Recherche sur la SEP
-    de la Société Hollandaise sur la SEP (MSVN)
-    let de la Fédération Internationale sur la SEP (MSIF)

Le bâtiment principal dispose de plus amples informations sur ces organisations, ainsi bien sûr d’une salle de rencontres et d’une salle de consultation et présentation.

Non loinde là se tient le lieu prévue pour la soirée.

Lawrence et moi_même avons rencontré sur les lieux des volontaires  : gezellie Tigerpaw, Byker Kondor, le noob, et Maarten Supercharge, l’administrateur du site ww.msweb.nl.

L’invitation :

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Mesdames et messieurs!!

Nous sommes fiers de présenter le programme final du concert au profit de la “Global Dinner Party”  le samedi 23 Février. Nous commençons à 19h00, heure d’Europe occidentale, 18h00 GMT, 1:00 PM à New York et 10:00 AM SL Time).

Le programme se décompose ainsi (les horaires sont en SL Time) :
10h00 Ouverture par house-deejay, DJ Maarten Supercharge
11h00 Concert en direct par Carmen Roeth des Pays-Bas, qui va chanter pendant 2 heures!
01h00 Concert en direct par Nikita Lumet des Pays-Bas
02h00 Concert en direct par Grateful Stryker en provenance des États-Unis
03h00 “Rock avec DJ Pre”
Les intermèdes musicaux entre les différents événements seront assurées par DJ Pre.
NE MANQUEZ PAS CE MEGA EVENEMENT EN DIRECT DE PLUS DE 6 HEURES DE MUSIQUE LIVE!

Venez jusqu’au podium sur MS Island VUmc
SLURL : MS Island VUmc (141,184,2 8)
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*Le MS Island VUmc est une initiative de l’Université d’Amsterdan VU Medical Centre. Sont également impliqués le MS Centre d’Amsterdam, MSweb, La Société SEP Netherlands, La Fondation pour la Recherche sur la SEP et la Fédération Internationale sur la SEP (MSIF).
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Nesim project : the videos

13 02 2008

All about the NESIM project in 10 minutes of video.
NESIM : SL emergency/Nursing Education SIMulator
NESIM SLURL

John “JS Vavoom” Miller explain what he is doing In World
to create and interact with objects based on theory in medical and nursing problems.

It is part of an RN(Registred Nurse) nursing program at Tacoma Community College.

Part 1 : 2:01

Part 2 : 2:00

Part 3 : 1:43

Part 4 : 2:00

Part 5 : 2:42

Futher reading on this blog :
“Emergency nursing education simulator” post