Author Archives: daneelariantho

The Impact of Meaningful Use on Health Care

Posted on January 16, 2013

Date: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 Time: 5:00-6:00 pm Central Standard Time (3:00-4:00 pm SLT/PST; 11:00 pm-Midnight UTC/GMT) - Convert to your time zone Location: UT Arlington Conference Center in Second Life, UTArlington III in Second Life Speaker: Gary Keast, Meaningful Use Program Manager, Mayo Clinic … Continue reading →

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Philip Rosedale at Virtual Ability

Posted on August 12, 2012

The second annual International Disability Rights Affirmation Conference was held Friday August 3rd and Saturday August 4th 2012, in Second Life®. The theme of this year’s conference was “A Community of Communities.” Gentle Heron talks to SecondLife creator Philip Rosedale … Continue reading →

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The Future of Health Applications in Virtual Worlds: Challenges, Solutions, and Convergence

Posted on June 7, 2012

Beyond the PTSD virtual experience in Second Life, this panel of experts will discuss challenges and obstacles to wider adoption of virtual worlds in health care and discuss strategies, successes and obstacles in implementation. Moderated by Kevin Holloway, T2 Project … Continue reading →

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CliniSpace : a seroius game made with Unity3D

Posted on June 7, 2012

CliniSpace offers a new generation of training environments for healthcare professionals – immersive, authentic, 3D virtual environments that replicate the familiar surroundings of daily work. A Serious-game in your browser. Healthcare Training with SImulation the Bio2Device group in the Silicon Valley … Continue reading →

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Traumatic Brain Injury: New understanding

Posted on March 27, 2012

A presentation and Q/A session, open to the public, led by Dr. Allen Brown, physician in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Mayo Clinic. Thursday, March 29, 2012 Noon PDT Mayo Clinic conference center, Mayo Clinic island Presented simultaneously in Voice … Continue reading →

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Safe2live Campaign in JokaydiaGRID

Posted on March 27, 2012

The Protect Yourself 1 Safe2live social marketing media campaign is using virtual world to engage at-risk youth for HIV prevention. The video has been edited by PY1 Creative Director, Sheldon Drake and presented at the GamesForHealth conference in Boston, Massachusetts, … Continue reading →

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MEdSim Magazine: the Journal for Healthcare Education, Simulation and Training

Posted on March 18, 2012

MEdSim is designed to promote the best and most advanced education and training practices for the next generation of healthcare professionals. MEdSim is written by professionals in medicine, simulation and training, who are recognised leaders with a lifetime of experience. Produced … Continue reading →

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SPICE

Posted on October 16, 2011

The University of New England (UNE)is going to implement an OpenSim based Virtual World for pharmacy and social work students. This project is called SPICE, for Social work Pharmacy Interaction Contextualization Experience. The building of pharmacy was originally hosted on … Continue reading →

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Multi-User Virtual Environments in Healthcare: A Primer for Healthcare Students

Posted on October 16, 2011

This presentation was given to the University of San Francisco’s Dr. Margaret Hansen’s Nursing Informatics Class.

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2010 in review

Posted on January 2, 2011

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Minty-Fresh™. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. … Continue reading →

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