2007 AIMS Industry Council

B-Line Medical

 CAE
Education Management
Solutions

 Forterra Systems

Gaumard Scientific
Haptica
Immersion Medical

IngMar Medical

KB Port LLC
Laerdal
Limbs & Things, Inc.

Medic Vision

Mentice

METI

Pocket Nurse
Simbionix
SimMedical
SimQuest
Simulab Corporation

Touch of Life Technologies
Verefi Technologies, Inc.

Virtual Reality Medical Center

Lucas Huang

lucas@blinemedical.com 301.802.6890

Zeina Abou-Said
zeina@blinemedical.com
202.841.8659
www.blinemedical.com

B-Line Medical's™ Clinical Skills System™ and SimCenter System™ products are comprehensive and highly automated solutions for managing and operating Clinical Skills and simulation centers. B-Line Medical solutions improve medical education and maximize resources by handling testing, assessment, digital video capture, and center management via a remarkably easy to use, web-based application. B-Line Medical™ systems are in use at universities and hospitals throughout the country.

CAE is also a global leader in the design of sophisticated military training systems for air, land and sea applications, having supplied the defence forces of more than 50 nations with military training systems and services. In addition, the Company offers a range of simulation equipment and modelling and simulation software.

Anuarg Singh
anrug.singh@ems-works.com
877.EMS.5050 x22

Dushy Edrisinghe
dushy.edrisinghe@ems-works.com
877.EMS.5050 x18

www.EMS-works.com

Education Management Solutions (EMS) is a leader in providing integrated software and hardware solutions for clinical skills and simulation lab training and assessment environments for medical, nursing, and allied health institutions.

EMS’ Total Solution Helps Build Competency:

• Captures standardized patient and simulation training sessions for debriefing, remediation, and feedback via digital audio-video.

• Collects data for analysis, scoring, score reporting and evaluation of trainees.

• Automates the management of schedules, exams, announcements, and digital camera movements.

Forterra Systems builds distributed virtual world technology for the corporate, healthcare, government, and entertainment industries. Forterra's software and services enable organizations to train, plan, rehearse, and collaborate in ways previously considered impossible or impractical. Using the OLIVE™ (On-Line Interactive Virtual Environment) Platform and industry standard PC hardware, customers can rapidly generate realistic, collaborative, 3D Internet solutions that easily scale from single user applications to large scale simulated environments supporting many thousands of concurrent users. 

John Eggert

john@gaumard.com
305.971.3790
www.gaumard.com

Gaumard provides a wide variety of simulators to healthcare professionals worldwide. Our founder, a MASH physician, introduced our first childbirth simulator in 1949. The NOELLE™ family of seven birthing systems address maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity by providing students with "hands-on" labor and delivery dilemmas. The HAL® mobile team trainer focuses on an emerging need for completely self-contained and "untethered" advanced simulators which are fully functional in transit and can be wirelessly controlled at distances to 300 meters.

Haptica delivers simulation solutions for laparoscopic and endoscopic procedures, including Laparoscopic Colectomy. It's platform system - ProMIS - is built around augmented reality: real instruments interact with virtual and physical models, thus delivering real haptics and realistic context. In 2004, Haptica and ProMIS won three international awards for innovation.

Kim Alfonso

kalfonso@immersion.com
301.984.3706
www.immersionmedical.com

Immersion Medical is a leader in designing, manufacturing, and marketing computer based medical simulators that provide remarkable visual, physical, physiological and tactile realism. Immersion Medical's exclusive patented haptic technology integrates proprietary software and hardware to create highly realistic medical procedure simulations. These simulators allow healthcare providers to repetitively practice procedures in an environment that poses no immediate risks to patients. The company has sold over 1200 simulators worldwide across their five product lines including the Endovascular, CathSim IV, Endoscopy, Hysteroscopy and Laparoscopy AccuTouch systems. Numerous validation studies, return on investment studies and customer stories have been published to demonstrate Immersion Medical simulators as effective tools for training medical procedures. Immersion Medical focuses on the development of highly realistic procedure based medical simulators, excellence in customer service and ongoing research and development efforts to meet the training needs of their customers.

IngMar Medical, global leader in respiratory simulation, offers products for clinical training, ventilator testing, and R&D. Products range from the high fidelity ASL 5000 Adult/Neonatal Breathing Simulator, to the ingeniously simple QuickLun g®. Our newest addition is the RespiTrainer™, created to help reduce the life threatening risks associated with inadequate manual ventilation technique. The RespiTrainer allows for the practice and perfection of manual ventilation with immediate, real-time performance feedback via a wireless connection to a PDA. 

Chuck Miller

cmiller@kbport.com

412-580-0628

www.officialkbport.com 

Kb Port continually researches the medical simulation training market to develop audio/visual and digital recording equipment that will enhance the utilization of simulation products. Our products can be found in simulation facilities across the nation and Canada. We offer lab design consultation, sales, installation, web and in-house product training, and service.

Kb Port’s Audio/Visual and Digital Recording Solutions:

• Event Triggered Digital Camera System (ETC) – fixed in-lab
  • Integrates multifunctional interfaces for up to 8 PTZ cameras
  • Stream live simulations to any computer on the network via Internet Explorer
  • Captures patient simulation training sessions for debriefing and feedback
• Mobile ETC – wireless system
• Backgrounds: Pop-up Walls, Curtains, and Wallpaper in a variety of hospital, street, emergency, and home care scenes
  • Creates a realistic environment out in the field or in the lab
• Custom Interactive Lectern
• Wireless Digital Headband Camera
• Audio/Visual Packages designed specifically around the needs of medical simulation labs

Gerry Higgins
Gerry.Higgins@laerdal.com
301.565.3388
www.laerdal.com

Laerdal Medical is dedicated to helping save lives through medical training, therapeutic products and support for medical research. Laerdal's broad portfolio of medical training products includes Learning Materials, Task Trainers, Manikins, Computer Based Trainers & MicroSimulators, Virtual Reality Simulations, Patient Simulators and support services. With over 2800 full patient simulators, both infant & adult, 300 Virtual Reality simulators & tens of thousands of microsimulators delivered, Laerdal is the premier medical simulation products and services provider. Laerdal's newest patient Simulators, the Resusci Anne Simulator and the ALS Simulator are making patient simulation more accessible, affordable and deployable. Laerdal is an international company with over 900 employees in three research and development facilities, three manufacturing plants and 20 sales companies supported by a global distribution and service infrastructure. Laerdal is an ever-growing organization, with excellent alliance partners and an outstanding distributor network; all committed to improving healthcare training and helping save lives.

Lindsay Smith
lsmith@golimbs.com
912.629.0357
www.golimbs.com

For 15 years, Limbs & Things, Inc. has worked hard to be your #1 source for medical training and simulation providing medical education models for diagnostic skills, surgical simulation, Ob/Gyn, suturing, minor surgery, soft tissue injection, vascular surgery and many other subjects.

Medic Vision is a full service provider in designing medical and surgical skills training centers, distributing and developing training simulators and working with the medical industry and profession to deploy medical and surgical skills training around the world. Our focus is to provide medical practitioners with training solutions in a patient free environment utilizing simulation, telemedicine and computer based technologies, increasing the extent of skills acquisition and therefore resulting in a reduction of medical error and improved patient safety.

Mentice is a leading supplier of virtual reality simulation based applications within the field of medicine, with special attention to the area of endovascular, cardiovascular and neurovascular intervention and minimally invasive surgery.  Mentice simulation products include the Procedicus VIST™ for vascular based procedures, the Procedicus MIST™ for laparoscopic core skills and the Procedicus VA™ for arthroscopic shoulder and knee procedures.  Additionally, Mentice develops other haptic and non-haptic designed simulators for various minimally invasive surgical training needs.  Mentice AB is headquartered in Gothenburg, Sweden with offices in the US, Singapore, Australia, Germany and the UK.

Medical Education Technologies, Inc. has been the leader in interactive human patient and surgical simulation for medical education since 1996. More than 1,400 organizations worldwide utilize METI's technology and educational software, including leading medical schools such as The Mayo Clinic, Harvard, Yale, UCLA, Cleveland Clinic, Stanford and others. METI's core product, the Human Patient Simulator (HPS®) - Stan - is designed to bleed, breath, talk, blink and simulate numerous other physiological characteristics and a multitude of medical emergency scenarios including heart attack, drug overdose, vehicular accidents, effects from weapons of mass destruction, bio-terrorism and other traumatic injuries. Other products include the ECS™, PediaSIM®, BabySIM®, SurgicalSIM™, and ExamSIM®. METI's automated technology and turnkey METI Learning™ solutions give educators the power to teach without becoming a slave to technology. METI is committed to the convergence of simulation across all platforms so that health care students of all disciplines may learn together in the most realistic environments possible. Our goal is to improve patient safety and, ultimately, save lives by providing technologically advanced learning tools that meet the highest standards and educational needs.

Anthony Battaglia

abattaglia@pocketnurse.com

412.630.2950

www.pocketnurse.com

Pocket Nurse® provides quality and cost effective disposable products from leading medical manufacturers to Simulation Labs and Healthcare Educators nationwide. Pocket Nurse® has over 5,000 products to fully equip a Clinical Simulation Lab or assist Educators teach all aspects of a Healthcare Curriculum. Educators can order from the 2007 Volume 12 catalog or from the customer-friendly website. At Pocket Nurse®, exceeding the expectations of our customers is our primary goal!

Simbionix is a world leader in the field of medical education and simulation technology. Our state-of-the art technology provides a robust platform to learn and master critical skills to ensure procedural efficiency and promote quality outcomes. The systems offer a range of basic and advanced full procedures, and incorporate detailed and complete metrics for skills assessment. The user is free to practice skills and perform procedures until the required proficiency is attained. Our line of products includes simulators for gastroenterology, endourology, percutaneous access procedures, laparoscopy and interventional endovascular procedures. Simbionix recently completed the acquisition of eTrinsic, Inc, a leader in online interactive medical education, delivery systems and assessment tools. By combining eTrinsic capabilities with its line of medical simulators, Simbionix now offers the medical community flexible options for curricula solutions, including simulation-based training, online educational content, and advanced tools for skills assessment.

Tom Dongilli

Tom.dongilli@simmedical.com

412-647-6341

www.simmedical.com

SimMedical, a Strategic Business Initiative of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), provides expertise in the creation and management of integrated healthcare simulation training programs featuring curricula and a web-based simulation management system developed by leading healthcare and simulation experts. SimMedical, in collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh's Peter M. Winter Institute for Simulation, Education and Research (WISER), provides continuing education services to help its clients reach their training and patient safety mission through simulation based training. SimMedical is committed to creating leading edge simulation solutions through technology, training and operational excellence designed to improve clinical performance, reduce medical errors and increase patient safety.

Bob Waddington
bwaddington@simquest.com
301.587.9440
www.simquest.com

SimQuest is dedicated to providing technology-led education and training that fosters improved quality of medical care and increased patient safety. The Company offers value-added integration, with custom solutions that match specific end-user needs. Our goal: to provide healthcare professionals with tools to develop and perfect their skills without risk to patients. This approach, coupled with SimQuest's focus on task analysis, technology evaluation, engineering design, and systems integration, produces simulators proven to be medically relevant and educationally sound.

What does this really mean? It means SimQuest's team of medical professionals, engineers, programmers, animators, and media experts bring experience - 50+ combined years in medical simulation development; expertise - applying appropriate levels of technology to create cost-effective, efficient, proficiency-based simulators; prominence - long-standing worldwide relationships with key policymakers, educators, technology developers, and medical practitioners; and leadership - in creation, utilization, and validation of curriculum-embedded medical simulators. It means success - for patients, medical professionals, and our customers.

Simulab® is in the forefront of surgical simulation. Simulab's simulators and models are used throughout the world for surgery education and medical device demonstration. The CentraLineMan™ trains surgeons on subclavian, supraclavicular and internal jugular access. In addition, the model allows the user to practice real-time ultrasound guidance and full catheterization. The TraumaMan® System has been evaluated and approved by the leading Surgical Education Society and is currently being used by the majority of their course providers worldwide. The LapTrainer with SimuVision™ is an affordable and portable video trainer that effectively demonstrates and trains laparoscopic skills outside of the operating room. Simulab is committed to building the world's finest human patient surgical simulators, replicas and surgical models by focusing our continual research and development efforts on anatomical realism. Simulab has four U.S. patents with another four patents pending.

Touch of Life Technologies creates virtual patients from real anatomy
derived from ultra-high resolution images of cryosectioned specimens, including the Visible Humans. These patients are specifically designed for real-time 3D clinical viewing through simulated ultrasound, fluoroscopy, CT, and direct observation. Palpation and high fidelity tool interactions with needles, scalpels, and drills are the hallmark of our simulations. We are developing applications in orthopaedic, general, and ophthalmic surgery, regional anesthesia, and rheumatology, on a common hardware
platform.

Verefi Technologies, Inc., with headquarters at 246 South Market Street, Elizabethtown, PA., introduced its newest simulator Head 2 Head for competitive and collaborative training for minimally invasive surgery in April, 2006. Verefi also produces EndoTower™ and RapidFire/SmartTutor, scientifically validated, cost effective, and reliable virtual reality trainers that focus on basic skills and individual elements of laparoscopic surgery. RapidFire provides eight tasks to develop skills related to the laparoscopic fulcrum effect, extrapolation of 2-D environments to 3-D understanding, bimanual target acquisition, and object transfer. SmartTutor keeps learners in a zone of optimal learning with real-time adjustments to either accommodate or challenge them. Integrated scoring systems assess and compare performance among individuals and over time. New products are under development for anesthesiology and neurosurgical applications. Verefi also offers multidisciplinary or single specialty consulting for simulation center development and simulation continuing education.

The Virtual Reality Medical Center (VRMC) uses simulation technologies in three main areas: treating patients with anxiety disorders, training for both military and civilian populations, and for various educational programs. The cornerstone of our corporate philosophy is focused on providing measurable and validated outcomes for analyzing the metrics of training transfer from virtual to real worlds.

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