http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkuLAOzL0zU
A patient simulation in the virtual world of Second Life by MUVErs used in nursing courses.
An update of John Miller’s work.
Muvers website : http://muversllc.blogspot.com/
Twitter : http://twitter.com/MUVErs
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First of all, the Pharmatopia project is an international collaboration :
Pharmatopia want to be an Immersive Learning Simulation For Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Studies.
Pharmatopia is the name of the first sim builded of three :
Pharmatopia is actually a closed access island.
The access is only available to member institutions.
The public opening access to the island will come in the future, but
that probably won’t happen until around the middle of 2009.
Under request, you can have a student guest account, that has access to Pharmatopia, but only for 30 days. All the details for this guest access, here.
Pharmatopia is made by 3DI developers :
Presentation of the Pharmatopia project by Dr. Ian Larson, Senior Lecturer
A CALT podcast : Click to see and download the QT video (.mov) 27,9 Mo 14:37
The main information source :
meeting place around the 3D map of the sim.
Under the Counsil chambers, a large place with a huge video screen.
The most interesting and detailed place of the sim.
Something like the NESIM project (Nursing education simulation) for pharmacy students : an amazing simulation.
Exhibitions and meetings are easy in Second Life but simulation using HUD are a next and higher step !
The virtual Pharmacy Tabletting laboratory : it’s all about Galenic.
The nine steps of the process
The video is produced by Radio Monash and CALT (CENTRE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING AND TEACHING), Monash University : all the visit is explained.
Click to download this video (.mp4) 26,25 Mo 7:40
Last but not least, a work in progress of UNC is rez on the sim : the hospital of Greensboro.
First rezzed on UNC V : see this Flickr album
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Preferered Family Healthcare is a comprehensive behavioral health non-profit organization established in 1979 providing substance abuse treatment/prevention and mental health services throughout Missouri and San Antonio, Texas. (Website : www.pfh.org )
PFH has been awarded $300,000US for 3 year study using OpenSim on the ReactionGrid.com Microsoft based hosting platform.
The grant will to provide “virtual treatment” to adolescents using virtual world technology in a grid dedicated to counseling remotely.
Source : http://twitter.com/Dr_Manhattan/status/983898167
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According to TIMESonline, Virtual reality is the latest trend in medicine.
Scientific Research and Medicine are growing in Second Life.
Second Life & Virtual Worlds for Academic Healthcare & Education
It is possible to “play” with virtual patient.
Emerging Technologies in Nursing and Nursing Education
Virtual Nursing Education in Second Life
“This is one of the areas that training for RNs is occurring in Second Life, a virtual world.
Students also apply theory by creating and manipulating 3D objects.
Planned meetings with the numerous support groups are used to increase the students awareness and empathy of those with health issues.
Students also experience real people with different cultures, nationalities, and languages in this virtual world.”
HUD are a great help to personnalize simulations in a global digital world.
Well … after, doctors, and nurses, it’s time to pharmacists to learn and practice in digital world. And the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Pharmacy have started a program.
The School of Pharmacy installation is on UNC V, but the sim is currently restricted to School of Pharmacy faculty and students.
Uskala Hidayat is the builder of the place.
Many thanks to him to let me access to this sim under construction.
The Family Practice Center is a clinical pharmacy center to educate patient to theirs chronical diseases like diabetes.
The machinima in the building is of a doctor patient interview.
There is also diabetes patient information , diabetes uizz, clinical cases.
More will come with a second level : a smoking cessation clinic.
Nearby, is the hospital with his Neonatal Care Unit. Another build in progress. 
More in a Flickr album.
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.
The lab
In his first life, Caia Alter is Gus Rosania, an Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Michigan College of Pharamcy.
He have his own virtual lab for scientific visualization, simulations and communication.
In first life, his lab is at:
And his Open Notebook Lab is at: http://1cellpk.wikispaces.com
His blog : 1CellPK blog http://1cellpk.blogspot.com/
His work :
Network of Exploratory Centers for Cheminformatics Research
http://neccr.org/
A Cell-Based Molecular Transport Simulator for Pharmacokinetic Prediction and Cheminformatic Exploration
http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/abstract.cgi/mpohbp/2006/3/i06/abs/mp060046k.html
Chat @ the lab
Yesterday, it’ was like this :
Now, it’s the first rez day for this place.
AIDES is the french association against HIV and AIDS.
AIDES is a mix of 1)AIDS = SIDA in french and 2)Aide in french = support.
The opening event of this place will be december 1rst 2007.
A Second Life molecule rezzer , named Orac,
that accepts InChI, InChIKey, and SMILES input, queries 3 different web services, and rezzes the 3D minimized molecule.
Video shot on Second Nature Island.
Many thanks to Rajarshi, the folks at chemspider.com, Jean-Claude Bradley (Horace Moody in SL), and Eloise for advising me on how to get the most out of llhttprequest.
Read about it here, and another project (3D periodic table) here.
Hiro Sheridan / Andrew Lang IRL
Pfizer on Novatierra, it’s a new “first” for Second Life…
A first, with 50 psychiatrists on the same sim!
Incredible, no ? A full lag experience :p
Medical information for healthcare professionnals on a new drug : Lyrica
Professor Sunil Shaunak, Imperial College, tell us about his efforts to develop reduced price drugs for the developing world.
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