VPH Presented at the medical simulation community
The SSH/ISBMS 2010 meeting in Phoenix, AZ, included a keynote plenary presentation dedicated to the Virtual Physiological Human. The talk, given by Marco Viceconti, Outreach Program responsible for the VPH Network of Excellence, presented the scope, vision, and the current development of the VPH initiative. This presentation targets one of the research communities, that of simulation in healthcare, which is considered neighbourhood domain for the VPH initiative. The high interest the presentation received confirmed that simulation in healthcare training, planning, and provision is a natural target application for VPH technologies.
An interesting application of information technology is healthcare simulation, where various computational technologies such as physics simulation, virtual reality, computer graphics, etc. are combined into hardware-software environments that simulate a specific healthcare activity, such as a surgical procedure, for training, planning, or rehearsal purposes. A leading organisation in this field is The Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH), which was established in January 2004 to represent the rapidly growing group of educators and researchers who utilize a variety of simulation techniques for education, testing, and research in health care. With over 2000 members, the annual International Meeting for Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH) congress is a primary event in the field. This year the event was enriched by the inclusion of the 5th International Symposium on Biomedical Simulation (ISBMS 2010). While SSH represents the community of users and producers, ISBMS represents the community of technological researchers in the same area. In addition, many of the researchers attending ISBMS are also developing technology for computer-aided surgery, which is another related domain. The invitation to the VPH NoE to provide a keynote plenary lecture on the VPH during ISBMS 2010 was considered a clear sign of the growing attention this technological research community is paying to the VPH initiative. Dr. Viceconti provided a full overview of the VPH vision, describing current activities, mechanisms through which researchers and organisations can get involved at various levels, and the VPH toolkit portal in some detail. The presentation was welcome with great interest by the participants; many questions were posed to the speaker, which reflected the very many synergies between the VPH and this relevant technological research community.
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