1. Prepared by dr. maurice dawson
VIRTUAL WORLDS FOR LIMITED PROTOTYPING, TESTING, AND TRAINING OF HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS
Prepared by dr. maurice dawson

2. agenda What is a Virtual World? (Video) Abstract
Strategic & operational plan under the state cooperative agreement
Better manage resistors to change
Current implementations in health
Military applications
Questions

3. “Life 2.0” official movie trailer
Explanation of virtual worlds

4. Abstract
As the United States (US) continues to become a wired society then it is imperative that the majority of the industries within the countries follow suite. As the Department of Defense (DoD) has relied significantly on technology to fight a battle that has become more and more net centric over the years it is time for those industries such as health care to change. The health care industry in its current stage has been identified as technological inept to handle newly available tools such as social media, virtual technology, Open Source Software (OSS), mobile computing, and platforms such as Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Thus to prepare this industry it is key to test all functionality of new applications that will provide ends users an easy method for accepting these new technological features. Keywords: Virtual Worlds, Technology Innovation, Health Information Technology, Low Fidelity Prototyping

5. Strategic & operational plan under the state cooperative agreement
Governance
Policy/Legal
Technical Infrastructure
Business & Technical Operations
Communications/Marketing
Relationships to Medicaid/Medicare

6. Better Manage Resistors to change
Why Use virtual worlds
Introduce new features early
Provide an inexpensive method to train personnel
Provide an inexpensive simulation that allows the doctors to tailor the interface

7. Current implementations in health
Simulation of Imperial College Medial Science Centre
Simulation design of hospital’s health IT systems
Fig 1. (a) Simulation of Imperial College Medial Science Centre (b) Simulation design of hospital’s health IT systems

8. Military applications

9. Military applications

10. Any questions
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