California Medical School Opens New Telemedicine Training Facility

[CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight]

Colleagues,

As reported in Healthcare IT News ... the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine will begin moving into a new $40.5 million medical education building this week.The new building includes a telemedicine training center, which officials say will help prepare their doctors for healthcare in the digital age..

... the centerpiece to the building is its telemedicine facility, which includes a 60-seat interactive televideo center and a clinical simulation lab and clinical skills center. Students will be
able to use digitally controlled, full-body simulators in operating-room and trauma-room settings, and the televideo room will allow students to see medicine practiced at distant locations with
real-time ability to communicate with clinical instructors. The telemedicine facilities are designed to aid healthcare delivery efforts to underserved agricultural and remote regions of California ..

Read on at: http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/ucis-new-telemedicine-training...

ENJOY!

CC