Category Archives: hospital

The Impact of Meaningful Use on Health Care

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

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

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

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A Second Life Emergency – The French Connection

SL Resident Wyll Neopolitan a real life medical emergency physician from Toulouse, a city in southwest France, narrates the Second Life experience with virtual instructional demonstrations on emergency care to multiple real life classrooms full of students who really do … Continue reading

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Cerner in Second Life

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

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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 : … Continue reading

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Respiratory medicine cases by Imperial College London in Second Life

First of all, the CNN video : http://www.shoppingblog.com/cgi-bin/sblog.pl?sblog=3290911 [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 … Continue reading

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NESIM (Nursing Education SIMulator) update in Second Life

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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Best healthcare places in Second Life

Ready ! They are ready : 24 landmarks dedicated to healthcare (and some others to chemistry). 2 others on first floor are for SLoodle (for elearning) and ISI (for more web & SL ressources). Click on it and each landmark … Continue reading

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Pharmatopia : an international collaboration for an immersive learning simulation for pharmacy and pharmaceutical studies

First of all, the Pharmatopia project is an international collaboration : Monash University – Australia, Malaysia, South Africa & Italy. University of Queensland – Australia UNC University of North Carolina – USA Univeristy of Nottingham – UK Keele university – … Continue reading

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