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Why Medical Modeling Has Skeptics

This is an insightful article that presents several key reasons why biologists are skeptical of biomedical models.  These same issues and factors can probably be applied to just about every...

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Computational Biology Model of Mycoplasma genitalium

It is interesting to think that it is 2012 and researchers are just now finishing a computer model of an organism -- in this case, the tiny parasite Mycoplasma genitalium.  We are...

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$2.54 Trillion Spent on Healthcare in 2010

  Want to know how the U.S. stacks up against the rest of the world relative to health/healthcare?  Check out the information at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation...

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Which Airports are Most Contagious? Let's Model It!

The Big Minds at MIT built an interesting model to determine which airports are more likely to support the spread of disease. Abstract:  The spread of infectious diseases at the...

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NCCMMS in the News

Published on HamptonRoads.com on 12 August, 2012| PilotOnline.com (http://hamptonroads.com)   Simulating the future for VMASC   Proponents of modeling and simulation all seem to...

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Healthcare Analytics

According to Wikipedia, Analytics is "the discovery and communication of meaningful patterns in data. Especially valuable in areas rich with recorded information, analytics rely on...

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Digital Health

Why does a blog on medical modeling and simulation collaboration care about the various ways to track one's health via commonly available technology?  Why do we care about electronic health...

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The "Google" Collection of Chemical Reactions

From our friends at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois:   Northwestern University scientists have connected 250 years of organic chemical knowledge into...

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Design is Problem Solving - Emphasizing the Problem

Puzzle piece (Photo credit: Joey Day) Are we making "things" on purpose?Here's a link to a post on Whitney Hess's Blog, "Pleasure and...

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Paul Boom: The Psychology of Everything

While there is no mention of medical modeling and simulation in this video, this quick but thorough introduction to psychology is definitely worth the 43 minutes it will take you to watch it....

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How Visualization Can Enable Understanding

The good folks at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) have developed an animation that helps to communicate the science of "vulnerable plaques" to the doctors,...

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The MedBiquitous Consortium

Just came across this organization, MedBiquitous.  The MedBiquitous Consortium develops IT standards for healthcare education and quality improvement.According to...

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Google Flu Trends

Flu Trends in Norfolk, Virginia. The dark blue line is the Google "estimate" based upon evaluation of search terms.  The lighter colors represent past year...

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U.S. Health in International Perspective Shorter Lives, Poorer Health

The title of this post comes from a recent study performed by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academes portrays severe issues in the U.S. Healthcare system.    ...

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Opportunities Abound

Opportunities Abound Assessment of quality of care is a direct intention of the Patient Protection & the Affordable Care Act. I expect the approach taken by New York (with the largest public...

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EVMS and Simis Develop a New Simulation-Based Medical Training Device

Here is a news segment from ABC news affiliate WVEC (Norfolk, Virginia) about the Automated Intelligent Mentoring System (AIMS).  AIMS is a co-development between Eastern Virginia Medical...

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Another Article Regarding the EVMS/SimIS Development Effort

Fox affiliate Fox43.com recently interviewed Geoff Miller of EVMS to learn about the recently developed Automated Intelligent Mentoring System, or AIMS.   AIMS is used to help track the...

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NCCMMS on WVEC, 17 February 2013

C. Donald Combs, PhD, Vice President and Dean, School of Health Professions at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia, and Co-Director of the National Center for Collaboration in Medical...

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The Coming Revolution Data-Driven, Patient-Centered Health Care

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The Innovation Ecosystem

The concept of the Innovation Ecosystem is very important to our overall economic health.  I thoughtI would share this compelling presentation here for anyone interested in better...

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SSH Novice Researcher Grant

The Society for Simulation in Healthcare is offering up to two $5,000 grants to support health-related simulation-based pilot studies carried out by Principal Investigators who have fewer than 5 years...

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Virginia Biosciences Health Research Corporation Request for Proposals

The Virginia Biosciences Health Research Corporation (VBHRC) is designed to improve human health by accelerating translational research through collaborations between Virginia...

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A New, Evidence-based Estimate of Patient Harms Associated with Hospital Care

This is an important study, in that it provides an update to the 1984 estimates.   Link Based on 1984 data developed from reviews of medical records of patients treated in New York hospitals,...

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The Difference Between Science & Engineering

Shane Parrish at Farnam Street Blog, one the most thoughtful and well presented blogs on the internet, finds a lot of great information through significant effort, so the rest of us don't...

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MODSIM World Call for Abstracts

MODSIM World 2014 Call for Abstracts   We are pleased to announce the Call for Abstracts for MODSIM World 2014.  More than ever, decision makers, solution providers, and modeling...

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I/ITSEC Special Event: Entering the Commercial Healthcare Market

This Society for Simulation in Healthcare sponsored panel, titled "Entering the Commercial Healthcare Market," will help Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and...

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Getting a Head Start: High-Fidelity, Simulation-Based Operating Room Team...

Here is a link to an article from Journal of the American College of Surgeons, Volume 218, Issue 1 , Pages 140-149, January 2014 titled "Getting a Head Start: High-Fidelity, Simulation-Based...

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3D technology from the film industry improve rehabilitation for stroke patients

"Researchers in Gothenburg have been using 3D technology from the film industry to analyze the everyday movements of stroke patients. The results, which are reported in a doctoral thesis at...

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Augmented Reality is Coming

Augmented reality (AR) use in healthcare  is very interesting.  Augmenting the treatment environment with helpful information, such as patient vitals and system...

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Legal Heroin - Immersive Virtual Reality

Virtual Reality (VR) has been around for a while, but it's not been a consumer commodity (read: affordable) until recently.  The Oculus Rift is gonig to bring affordable, immersive 3D...

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Computational Neuroscience

Waterloo researchers hope Spaun, a simulated brain, will be used to test new drugs that lead to medical breakthroughs for brain disorders. Will Virtual Brain Replace Lab Rats?...

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Close the Innovation Deficit

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Intro to Healthcare Modeling & Simulation Workshop

Healthcare Industry Workshop Presented by National Center for Collaboration in  Medical Modeling and Simulation 17 April 2014 - Open to all MODSIM World Attendees Introduction to...

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What is the resolution of the human eye?

This matters to medical modelers and simulationists.  The real issue has to do with fidelity, and how "real" the simulations should be made, or represented. This...

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IBM's Watson Supercomputer May Soon Be The Best Doctor In The World

Most people know Watson as IBM's answer to Jeopardy star Ken Jennings. But IBM's aspirations for its artificially intelligent supercomputer are now less quiz show champion and more medical...

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Go Big Data, Go! Big Data Approach to Bioinformatics Profiling Identifies New...

From Scientific Computing Over the last few decades researchers have characterized a set of clock genes that drive daily rhythms of physiology and behavior in all types of species, from flies...

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How Computers Are Changing Biology

How Computers Are Changing Biology May 2014 Communications of the ACM It just makes sense.  At no other time in our history have we had such easy access to so much data - data that is...

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New RAND Corporation Report: Redirecting Innovation in U.S. Health Care

Redirecting Innovation in U.S. Health Care Options to Decrease Spending and Increase Value Download here.  From the report: A leading cause of high and growing spending is new...

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Sustaining the Nation’s Innovation Ecosystems, Information Technology...

Here is an interesting report from 2004 prepared by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).  The report is titled Sustaining the...

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The Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) initiative

The Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) initiative   The Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) initiative is a worldwide effort to develop next-generation computer technologies to integrate all...

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21st Century Therapy – Virtual Reality For Addiction

MedicalModSim.com is happy to welcome our new contributor Laura Chapman!   21st Century Therapy – Virtual Reality For Addiction   Although the world around us is...

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Medical Simulation Job Openings

Job Openings You May Be Intereted In The U.S. Army Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center is seeking a full-time "RESEARCH SCIENTIST" to become part of the TATRC...

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Virtual Healthcare

There's a recent article in the Harvard Business Review (metered paywall) about the efforts of Brigham and Women’s Hospital to begin providing virtual care to patients....

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AI on the rise in healthcare

AI on the rise in healthcare Scott E. Rupp Thursday, February 22, 2018 The global artificial intelligence (AI) healthcare market was valued at $714.4 million in 2016, but this train is cruising at a...

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Precision Medicine Will Transform the Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Industries

The folks at Strategy + Business posted an article on how precision medicine will transform the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries that's likely worth your time to read. Precision medicine is an...

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Samsung's Galaxy S9 to include blood pressure monitor, research app

Originally posted by Laura Lovett  Go here for the full article.   Samsung’s latest phones, the Galaxy S9 and S9+, will incorporate a new digital health app that will track...

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47% of a surveyed population would use an AI Doc.

Accenture recently releaased their 2018 Consumer Survey on Digital Health.  There are a lot of interesting insights relevan to digital data collection and use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)...

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Request for Participation

The US Army Medical Research & Medical Materiel Command, Joint Program Committee-1 (JPC-1), Medical Simulation & Information Science Research Program (MSISRP) seeks input from...

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Article: Why Doctors Need Leadership Training

The good folks at Harvard Business Review penned a nice article making the case for physicians receiving leadership training as part of their education or carerer progression. Here's the gist:...

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Concept Map for Healthcare M&S

Hers's a concept map that I built specifically to demonstrate where - at very high levels - modeling and simulation can be used or are being used within the comprehensive healthcare domain. I...

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