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...
View ArticleComputational 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...
View Article$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...
View ArticleWhich 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...
View ArticleNCCMMS 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...
View ArticleHealthcare 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...
View ArticleDigital 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...
View ArticleThe "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...
View ArticleDesign 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...
View ArticlePaul 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....
View ArticleHow 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,...
View ArticleThe MedBiquitous Consortium
Just came across this organization, MedBiquitous. The MedBiquitous Consortium develops IT standards for healthcare education and quality improvement.According to...
View ArticleGoogle 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...
View ArticleU.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. ...
View ArticleOpportunities 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...
View ArticleEVMS 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...
View ArticleAnother 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...
View ArticleNCCMMS 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleSSH 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...
View ArticleVirginia 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...
View ArticleA 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,...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleMODSIM 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...
View ArticleI/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...
View ArticleGetting 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...
View Article3D 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...
View ArticleAugmented 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...
View ArticleLegal 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...
View ArticleComputational 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?...
View ArticleIntro 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...
View ArticleWhat 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...
View ArticleIBM'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...
View ArticleGo 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticleSustaining 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View Article21st 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...
View ArticleMedical 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...
View ArticleVirtual 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....
View ArticleAI 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...
View ArticlePrecision 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...
View ArticleSamsung'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...
View Article47% 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)...
View ArticleRequest 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...
View ArticleArticle: 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:...
View ArticleConcept 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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