Few things about 3D healthcare

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

 

• Games for Health 4th Annual Conference

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 to see the video.

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

 

• Mediteca - Medical Clinical Simulator 3.0

A spanish work : demo in flash online.

  

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

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”.

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

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 at the bed in the patient room

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.

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.

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

IBM Virtual Healthcare Island : a video

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

Cisco opens the ‘Hospital of the Future’

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