Virtual pharmacy clean room

It’s great ! It’s virtual reality for pharmacy students.
Not virtual world in this case. But I hope to see something like that soon in Second Life : a virtual clean room to practice preparations like chemotherapies.

The article : http://www.lafayette-online.com/purdue-news/2009/04/virtual-clean-room-pharmacist-training/

Extract :

The simulator runs in a multiwall immersive environment at the Envision Center and will work on wall-sized panels and portable display systems, too. The equipment employs 3-D glasses and a wireless controller something like a Nintendo Wii’s to put users in the middle of the virtual world being projected and allow them to navigate and manipulate it. Head-tracking capability adjusts the view as a user looks around, or “walks” through, the environment, which is detailed down to the labels on the medicine bottles. The software also has been modified to run on desktop and laptop computers.

The virtual clean room was created from hundreds of digital pictures taken at Clarian Health Partners and Wishard Health Services in Indianapolis, in facilities compliant with USP 797, the federal regulation governing pharmacy clean rooms. The computer-graphics technology students also captured ambient sound and included it in the simulator.

Flying through the virtual pharmacy clean room

A fly-through video created by students at Purdue Universitys Envision Center for Data Perceptualization offers an overall tour of the virtual pharmacy clean room.

Working in the virtual clean room

Steve Abel, assistant dean for clinical programs, School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences Purdue University, directs a student as she explores the virtual clean room and its features, including some things that shouldnt be there.

PIVOTE

PIVOTE (for PREVIEW Immersive Virtual Training Environment) is a virtual learning authoring system for virtual worlds. It was developed as part of the JISC funded PREVIEW project, where it was used to develop training material for Paramedic students at St George’s Hospital and Kingston University.

Although based on the Medbiquitous Virtual Patient standard the feeling of all involved in the project was that the system could be used for any sort of structured learning in virtual worlds. The result was that JISC have funded the creation of PIVOTE – this open source project.

The key point about PIVOTE is that all the structure and information content of an exercise is stored on the web, not in the virtual world.

This means that it is easy to create, and then edit and maintain, courseware INDEPENDENT OF VIRTUAL WORLD. And since even structure and content are separate you can have the same exercise but with different levels of student information – from loads of help and structure for beginners, to minimal information and structure for assessment purposes.

From here you can download all the code you need to use PIVOTE to run your own courses in virtual worlds. From the location in Second Life you can download a starter set of objects, and the Controller, and you can of course create (and hopefully share) your own.

SLURL

PIVOTE supports users in Second Life (and OpenSim) and on the Web, but it is possible to create controllers for other virtual worlds.

An overview of the PREVIEW project, featuring the newly rebuilt Cedars at Coventry University

All images are from Sheetalkavia’s Flickr

Sources :

• The PIVOTE blog
• The website
• Download (on Google Code)
• The press release

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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