ChartFlow Team
If you didn’t get a chance to visit us at IMSH 2024, we want to share some of our favorite vendors that we got to interact with during the show.
In our previous post, we shared 3 high tech vendors bringing AR, VR, and other digitally immersive tools to simulation. As our own employees found, putting on a headset and being fully immersed in a medical or nursing scenario is incredible. However, we know that for some schools integrating these technologically-dependent solutions just isn’t an option either due to cost, discomfort with technology by staff/students, or availability of necessary infrastructure.
For simulation centers who aren’t interested in the move to VR (or just want to focus on both virtual and real life simulation running side-by-side), we have a few vendors we love for your in-person, hands-on scenarios.
These are two of our favorite booths from the IMSH show in 2024:
Wallcur
Ok, ok, we’re biased on this one. Why? Because we’ve known the folks at Wallcur for a long time and love their small-company vibe, extensive product list and reasonable prices. But also, we have their medications in ChartFlow’s med formulary (hopefully this will grow into something bigger in the future!), so you can use their products with ChartFlow. Starting a new sim lab? Great! Purchase the Practi-Sim Lab Starter Pack for all your basics and you’ll be able to add any of the Wallcur meds to your patient scenarios in ChartFlow. Win-win for everyone!
Also: moulage tattoos. If you’ve ever tried to moulage a wound on a patient actor from scratch, you know why having a stick-on alternative is better. Who needs a fancy augmented reality system to display wounds on a patient, when you can make the real thing with a simple sticker?
Avkin
From the EMT level all the way to Medical schools, we love a good patient actor. And if you’re using patient actors, you should be using wearable simulators. In our minds, nothing beats having a real person in a simulation lab, answering questions and responding to students. Even just the act of having a human observe what’s being done to them can make a scenario more realistic. After all, when doing VR, the stakes are low. A manikin won’t notice if you spill [simulated] medications/blood on them or position them in an awkward way. A patient actor will.
The Avkin booth had one of its coolest simulators on display at IMSH – the Avbirth wearable birthing simulator. For those who couldn’t be at the conference, it’s definitely worth taking a look at their videos to check out this genius contraption. Unlike birthing manikins that are hugely expensive and difficult to fix, this fully automated simulator is strapped to a human actor and births a baby. In real life, a birthing mother is not going to be laying still and silent like a manikin, you can bet she’s going to be moving and making noise. Having that human experience combined with the simulator is incredible. Plus, there are less components to break over time.
What’s even cooler? Using a birth simulator and then having students find relevant patient information and do their charting in ChartFlow. Then, they can debrief by referring to their notes in our simulated EHR afterwards.
Even if you didn’t get a chance to come to IMSH this year, we hope you get a chance to check out some of the other vendors, and feel free to email us to book a demo of our product anytime: sales@chartflow.io
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