Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the University of Nebraska Medical Center turned to patient simulation and visualization technologies to help train its staff on coronavirus-specific clinical protocols. The provider's medical simulation facility was able to train thousands of healthcare professionals over the course of the public health crisis.
To better educate triple negative breast cancer patients and ultimately improve health outcomes, the CDC Division of Cancer Prevention and Control worked with the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors and health IT company Kognito to create an app that features a virtual human.
Zelis highlights how employers, payers, and consumers are integrating digital tools to manage healthcare costs.
Health Scholars, which focuses on merging technology and clinical education, won the health services track of the MedCity INVEST Pitch Perfect competition earlier this month.
The Simulation Stage is a flexible, hospital room-sized space intended to give startups a convenient place to test their technologies in a simulated clinical environment.
"Providers are not known for being good communicators," said DecisionSim CEO Bob Yayak. The company wants to address this issue with CommSim, newly purchased online communications training technology from Drexel University College of Medicine.