A demonstration of Cerner’s solutions and services in the perioperative space. This demo is being constructed in Second Life using Cerner’s Virtual Community : http://www.cernervirtualcommunity.com

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cerner%20WHQ/84/94/28

Today 2 presentations about medicine in Second Life :

Medicine in Second Life, the virtual world

Describing how virtual worlds can be used in medical education (virtual presentation for a course of the Nova Southeastern University).

Virtual Worlds Demand Innovative Roles and Skills from Medical Librarians

OBJECTIVES: As our institutions engage in new online learning and community spaces, the roles of the medical librarian have shifted to encompass these new environments. In Second Life (SL) and other virtual worlds, while the fundamental goals of service, support, collection development, reference, and outreach remain the same, the scope of audience and delivery of health information in support of these goals takes on a vastly different form.
METHODS: An academic medical library collaborated with local health sciences schools and programs on developing a SL space. The librarians initiated training sessions on SL skills; organized a seminar series; developed resources and exhibits that bridged the virtual world and online environments; collaborated with local, national and international partners; and broadly served as community managers for the Second Life community and space.

RESULTS: Outcomes of the librarians’ activities as community managers included professional presentations in SL, creation of tools to index health information in SL, engagement with patient support communities, and formation of an international SL health education community.

CONCLUSIONS: Second Life offers exceptional opportunities for health and medical librarians through flexible and innovative new roles.

Journal of Virtual Worlds Research

Vol 2, No 2: 3D Virtual Worlds for Health and Healthcare

Table of Contents

Editor’s Corner

Maria Toro-Troconis, Maged N. Kamel Boulos
1) Musings on the State of ‘3-D Virtual Worlds for Health and Healthcare’ in 2009
PDF

Invited articles

Constance M Johnson, Allison A Vorderstrasse, Ryan Shaw
2) Virtual Worlds in Health Care Higher Education
Abstract | PDF

Peer Reviewed Research Papers

John Robert Norris
3) The Growth and Direction of Healthcare Support Groups in Virtual Worlds
Abstract | PDF

Paul Krebs, Jack Burkhalter, Shireen Lewis, Tinesha Hendrickson, Ophelia Chiu, Paul Fearn, Wendy Perchick, Jamie Ostroff
4) Development of a Virtual Reality Coping Skills Game to Prevent Post-Hospitalization Smoking Relapse in Tobacco Dependent Cancer Patients
Abstract | PDF

Elizabeth Dean, Sarah Cook, Michael Keating, Joe Murphy
5) Does this Avatar Make Me Look Fat?
Obesity and Interviewing in Second Life
Abstract | PDF

Research Papers

Susan Toth-Cohen, Therese Gallagher
6) Development and Evaluation of Health and Wellness Exhibits at the Jefferson Occupational Therapy Education Center in Second Life
Abstract | PDF

Research-in-brief papers

Douglas R Danforth, Mike Procter, Richard Chen, Mary Johnson, Robert Heller
7) Development of Virtual Patient Simulations for Medical Education
Abstract | PDF

“Think pieces”

Rashid M Kashani, Anne Roberts, Ray Jones, Maged N. Kamel Boulos
8 ) Virtual Worlds, Collective Responses and Responsibilities in Health
Abstract | PDF

Maged N. Kamel Boulos, Inocencio Maramba
9) Pitfalls in 3-D Virtual Worlds Health Project Evaluations:
The Trap of Drug-trial-style Media Comparative Studies
Abstract | PDF

Vanessa Gamboa González
10) Towards a virtual doctor-patient relationship:
Understanding virtual patients.
Abstract | PDF

Editor-in-Chief’s Corner

Methal Mohammed
11) Cultural Identity in Virtual Reality (VR): A Case Study of a Muslim Woman with hijab in Second Life(SL)
Abstract | PDF

Annabel Jane Wharton
12) Shaping the ‘Public Sphere’ in Second Life: Architectures of the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election
Abstract | PDF

References :

http://jvwresearch.org/

https://journals.tdl.org/jvwr

Thursday, July 30, 1 PM Pacific/4 PM Eastern – Green Phosphor, Ltd., specializes in using 3D platforms for dense data-visualization, working in bioinformatics, genomics and similar data-intensive disciplines. This week, they’re launching an online web-service – GlassHouse – to help others visualize and interact with data in social virtual worlds. Join us for a conversation with CEO Ben Lindquist and Art Keplar, Chief Scientist, and a hands-on demo of 3D dataviz applied in cancer research.
When: 1 PM Pacific/4 PM Eastern, Thursday, July 30 (TODAY).
Where: Register on the web at http://www.smartertechnology.com/c/s/Smarter-Technology-Virtual-World/ – then participate via video/chat in our web-based conference center

Live in Second Life: The registration link, above, will let you create a Second Life avatar and download the Second Life client, dropping you directly in our 3D conference center when you start the client and log in.
If you already have a Second Life avatar: Please register above, giving your avatar name on the first page of registration (do not complete the second page, creating an avatar), then click this link to teleport directly: http://slurl.com/secondlife/SmarterTechnology%201/230/98/34

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Using images of Second Life and Real Life mixed with texts and a truely amazing music piece, Sorrow & Hope is a machinima featuring Virtual Ability, the winner of the First Linden Prize .

“Where limitations are just stepping stones… to a place with no limitations.” Virtual Ability

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

[9:49] Blue Terminal: Hello Daneel Ariantho, thank you for taking the Larynx Anatomy Test (Blue arrow)

[9:49] Blue Terminal: This test will make arrows appear around the Larynx in front of you. Fly around the Larynx, find the arrows of the right color and name the corresponding body part.
[9:49] Blue Terminal: Each arrow has a particle trail which will guide you to it in case you shouldn’t be able to find the arrow.

[9:50] Blue Terminal: Type out your answer normally in the main chat. This test is not case sensitive. You have 5 minutes to answer each question before the test gets reset.
[9:50] Blue Terminal: Are you doing the test for practice or for grading?
[9:50] Daneel Ariantho: /5 practice
[9:52] Blue Terminal: Ok, How many questions out of 10 would you like to answer for this test?
[9:52] Daneel Ariantho: /5 2
[9:52] Blue Terminal: 2 question(s), is that correct?
[9:50] Daneel Ariantho: /5 yes
[9:52] Blue Terminal: Thank you, starting the test…
[9:52] Blue Terminal: Question 3.
[9:53] Daneel Ariantho: /5 hyoid bone
[9:56] Blue Terminal: I’m sorry, your answer was incorrect, the right answer would have been ‘Thyroid Gland‘
[9:56] Blue Terminal: Question 1.
[9:57] Daneel Ariantho: /5 thyroid gland
[9:57] Blue Terminal: I’m sorry, your answer was incorrect, the right answer would have been ‘Hyoid Bone‘
[9:57] Blue Terminal: Larynx Anatomy Test (Blue arrow) end results:
[9:57] Blue Terminal: Out of 2 questions, you answered 0 correctly and 2 incorrectly, scoring 0%
[9:57] Blue Terminal: Thank you for participating, have a nice day.

SLURL : Speech-Language & Hearing Science, Second Earth 7 (60, 113, 44)
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Second%20Earth%207/67/100/35

This is virtual medical simulation video in Second Life for RN training at Tacoma Community College by John Miller RN, ADN, BSN, MN (aka JS Vavoom) and MUVErs, LLC, http://muvers.org .

Instructions

Nursing simulation assessing and treating a patient with a chest pain. Oxygen, medications, intravenous fluids, cpr, and defibrillation are performed by avatars.

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.

    Reaction: Chemistry 101 is created exclusively for Aldrich by Madpea Productions in association with Orange Island.

   Sigma-Aldrich is a leading Life Science and High Technology company. Their biochemical and organic chemical products and kits are used in scientific and genomic research, biotechnology, pharmaceutical development, the diagnosis of disease and as key components in pharmaceutical and other high technology manufacturing.

    For more info on events at Sigma-Aldrich in SL, visit http://sialisland.wordpress.com

It is a serious game, an ‘interactive mad science game’ where players travel to lab stations at various locations around Aldrich’s sims, and perform unique experiments.    

To help you perform these experiments, you should have received a HUD, a Chemistry Book.Use this book to collect the materials needed for the experiments, as well as for instruction on the experiments themselves.

     You will have to find the 9 hidden stations and materials yourselves. A notecard provide the 9 SLURL : stations and materials are very close to them.

The goal of the game is to create a firework.

    About MadPea Productions:
    MadPea Productions is devoted to interactive games in Second Life. Their website at http://www.madpea.com to learn more. All players are registered online  and the statistics on Reaction are included in a  Statistics page on the website. http://www.madpea.com/stats_Reaction.php

Go there , to play this game : SLURL

[Doctors train in 'Second Life' 1:11 A British med school is having students learn by treating virtual patients in the online world 'Second Life'. Source: CNN | Added March 27, 2009]

The Imperial College London Sim : his tower, his conference room, his sandbox and … his hospital

It’s this link for the visist : SLURL http://slurl.com/secondlife/Imperial%20College%20London/150/86/27

First of all, you have to register online :

Pr Martyn Partridge :http://www1.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/people/m.partridge

is always at his desk.

You can search the right diagnosis on 5 different patients.

First wash your hands, ask patients basis information, perform a first diagnosis (differential diagnosis), and next …

perform some tests, new investigations for a final diagnosis :

The results of the investigations of each patient are in dedicated rooms. Here is the Laboratory.

It’s 5 clinical cases :

1. Pneumonia
2. Anticoagulant
3. Asthma
4. Pneumothorax
5. Lung cancer

It’s summarize in the Patient Management Area with some slides about this clinical cases:

A very easy-to-use simulation : you are helped by a reminder (wear as a badge on you at the entry of this hospital) so you can know all the time at which steps you have taken a break.

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Initial announcement :
Researchers pilot virtual clinic to help train doctors [6 march 2009] http://www1.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/news/060309_virtualclinic/

References :

• London Medical Students Train in Second Life Virtual Hospital http://www.ihealthbeat.org/Articles/2009/3/30/London-Medical-Students-Train-in-Second-Life-Virtual-Hospital.aspx
• Medical Students Using Second Life For Training http://www.inquisitr.com/20911/medical-students-using-second-life-for-training/
• Massively – Imperial College London lets students play doctor in Second Life http://www.massively.com/2009/03/30/imperial-college-london-lets-students-play-doctor-in-second-life/
• Unique Medical Simulation in Second Life!
  http://scienceroll.com/2008/08/17/unique-medical-simulation-in-second-life
• Can Second Life help teach doctors to treat patients? http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/03/30/doctors.second.life/index.html