Comments on: Case Study – Medical Device/Healthcare Simulation http://tmnsimulation.com.au/medical-devicehealthcare-simulation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=medical-devicehealthcare-simulation Try it in the Virtual World to nail it in the Real World! Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:18:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: KennyMacleod http://tmnsimulation.com.au/medical-devicehealthcare-simulation/comment-page-1/#comment-42 KennyMacleod Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:18:05 +0000 http://tmnsimulation.com.au/?p=30#comment-42 Hi Aaron, thanks for your comment. I agree, simulation, particularly in healthcare, has some awesome benefits; from modelling patient flow right through to medical simulators, that allow people to practice procedures without fear of killing/hurting someone. Who can forget that rubber taste in their mouths after mouth-to-mouth training on doris the dummy, in first-aid class? High-tech simulation is still very much in its infancy and costs will come down as more people use it. Flexsim, for example, are trying to break this barrier to using simulation; they are about to release a new healthcare modelling application that, I believe, will be priced very low in the belief that many organisations will adopt it. The application has a library of hospital "objects" like triage, waiting rooms, beds, nurses, doctors, scanners, etc. that can all be dragged onto the screen an linked to gether; this will give a very rapid and de-skilled modelling environment. I'll post more once it's released. Kenny Hi Aaron, thanks for your comment.
I agree, simulation, particularly in healthcare, has some awesome benefits; from modelling patient flow right through to medical simulators, that allow people to practice procedures without fear of killing/hurting someone.

Who can forget that rubber taste in their mouths after mouth-to-mouth training on doris the dummy, in first-aid class?

High-tech simulation is still very much in its infancy and costs will come down as more people use it. Flexsim, for example, are trying to break this barrier to using simulation; they are about to release a new healthcare modelling application that, I believe, will be priced very low in the belief that many organisations will adopt it.

The application has a library of hospital “objects” like triage, waiting rooms, beds, nurses, doctors, scanners, etc. that can all be dragged onto the screen an linked to gether; this will give a very rapid and de-skilled modelling environment.

I’ll post more once it’s released.

Kenny

]]> By: Aaron http://tmnsimulation.com.au/medical-devicehealthcare-simulation/comment-page-1/#comment-41 Aaron Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:52:47 +0000 http://tmnsimulation.com.au/?p=30#comment-41 Simulation truly is an amazing tool. I work at a medical device company (http://www.padtmedical.com/) and we have an entire simulation department, which is increasingly becoming an integral part of medical device development, even when it is not focused on the actual device, as demonstrated by this article's case study. The issue, though, is that simulation itself is expensive. The next challenge in medical device simulation will be identifying a way to provide accurate simulation results without having the high costs of skilled analysts running the software. Simulation truly is an amazing tool. I work at a medical device company (http://www.padtmedical.com/) and we have an entire simulation department, which is increasingly becoming an integral part of medical device development, even when it is not focused on the actual device, as demonstrated by this article’s case study. The issue, though, is that simulation itself is expensive. The next challenge in medical device simulation will be identifying a way to provide accurate simulation results without having the high costs of skilled analysts running the software.

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