NCCMMS Awarded $600,000 Grant
A $600,000 grant from the Commonwealth of Virginia's Office of Economic Adjustment (OEA) will help the National Center for Collaboration in Medical Modeling and Simulation...
View ArticleMedGadget.com
Here's an interesting site for those of us who care about medical device development in the greater sense (not directly focused on modeling and simulation based tools)....
View ArticleWhy 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...
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