Advancing Health Care through Virtual Reality Research - Adventist Review

AdventHealth University (AHU) and Full Sail University precocious opened the Full Sail University Healthcare Technology Lab.

The universities, some based successful cardinal Florida, United States, volition usage the laboratory to make associated health-care probe projects, behaviour advancement reviews, and grow learning opportunities for students. The installation volition beryllium housed wrong Full Sail University’s Emerging Technologies helping connected its Winter Park, Florida, campus.

The Full Sail University Healthcare Technology Lab volition chiefly prosecute Full Sail University students crossed the emerging technologies grade programs, including machine science, cybersecurity, crippled development, accusation technology, and different programs. Students from a assortment of AHU grade programs, including occupational therapy adjunct and nursing, volition usage the laboratory to find innovative exertion solutions to heighten diligent safety.

In addition, the Full Sail University and AHU teams volition usage the laboratory to assistance find innovative solutions for enhanced grooming of nurses and different health-care squad members, an important country of absorption successful addressing nursing retention and support.

Healthcare Technology Lab. [Photo: AdventHealth University]

“AdventHealth University is thrilled to collaborate with Full Sail University connected this state-of-the-art schoolroom and lab,” Edwin I. Hernandez, president and CEO of AdventHealth University, said. “This concern is simply a fantastic illustration of leading-edge exertion providing solutions to however we bid and enactment health-care workers, peculiarly arsenic they participate the workforce. We are excited to spot wherever this takes us, arsenic the possibilities agelong arsenic acold arsenic our imaginations.”

This installation — afloat equipped with industry-standard technology, including a large-format 3D printer — is the latest hold of the concern betwixt Full Sail University and AHU. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2 universities developed the Rapid Deployable Video Simulation and the Automated Medicine Dispensing System, which are grooming technologies created successful a multi-player immersive virtual world trainer for AHU nursing students arsenic the schoolhouse recovered caller ways to prosecute with distant learners wrong the nursing program.

Additionally, successful 2020, Full Sail University and AHU partnered to triumph the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference’s yearly Iron Dev competition. The winning prototype virtual world solution serves arsenic a impervious of conception for a virtual bid halfway to assistance health-care facilities and systems similar AdventHealth visualize infirmary resources and COVID-19 information points.

“At Full Sail University, we promote our students to not lone marque emerging technologies solutions for amusive oregon people credit, but besides to service a intent and marque an interaction wrong the community,” Shawn Stafford, manager of probe and people manager astatine Full Sail University, said. “The aesculapian expertise provided by AdventHealth University allows our students to make research-backed solutions to real-world problems, overmuch similar they volition erstwhile they participate their nonrecreational careers. We look guardant to seeing the large projects that volition travel to beingness successful this caller laboratory facility, and that proceed to travel from this partnership.”

The concern volition proceed to supply Full Sail University emerging technologies students and AHU students with entree to health-care manufacture experts arsenic caller practices, procedures, and technologies are developed to enactment the health-care industry. Students summation hands-on acquisition connected however to bring emerging technologies and innovative mindsets into the industry.

The original version of this communicative was posted by Southern Tidings.