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The Archives
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03.12.08Medical Records Simulation in SLOver at Science Roll, John Norris, a technology expert and graduate candidate in Biomedical Informatics, is interviewed about his experiences attempting to insert electronic medical records into the Ann Myers Medical Center, a virtual hospital housed in SL. The short interview touches on the technological specifics of his work and the advantages of using SL for this type of application. Norris says: "I think it can give a more fuller experience to medical simulations, incorporating medical records, scheduling, and the like while in SL." You can also look at his screen grabs on Flickr.
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02.28.08Healthcare Mash-Up: Imagine Second Life, IBM Avatars and Google HealthSpeculation maybe, but hints of things to come in a series of recent announcements in the healthcare field: * IBM is opening a healthcare sim in Second Life whose purpose is to provide a 3D demo of how its information systems facilitate better patient care and information management. Nothing like walking through a "real" simulation to see the impact of what's usually invisible, namely technology. Continue Reading...
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02.26.08IBM Opens Healthcare Island in Second LifeCNN gives detailed coverage of IBM's opening of a healthcare sim in Second Life, which includes the following (quoted): Visitors can then walk, fly or use "transporters" to visit the various island stations: -- The Patient's Home: In the secure environment of a private home, patient avatars can initiate a PHR and populate it with their personal health characteristics and clinical history, accessed and downloaded from physician EMR data. They can also establish privacy and security preferences as well as health directives. The ground floor demonstrates ...
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11.27.07Real World Medical Treatments through Virtual WorldsFurther evidence of how the lines between the virtual and the real continue to blur and dissolve, clinicians in Texas are using virtual worlds to treat Asperger's Syndrome. A technology associated with fantasy worlds is helping young adults with autism in the hard reality of life. Researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas Center for BrainHealth are working with patients diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome using virtual reality training. It will be interesting to see how much quantifiable research comes out of this project. In conjunction with corporate, emergency and other simulations as training, virtual worlds as augmentation to the "real" or ...
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