Are we being innovative enough as an organization? How can we support a more disruptive organizational culture? These are two questions that I have recently heard being asked by senior leaders in my provincial health authority. So what are they really asking and what is their vision for future directions? What I think they are asking: How do we use technology to the maximum of our capability to increase healthcare efficiency and...
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Does a path to improved patient experience lie through the use of technology? This is a question on my mind after reading Liberti and Triberati’s (2014) article Patient-centered virtual reality: an opportunity to improve the quality of patient’s experience. How does this hyped-up new technology link to developing improvements in the care of patients through consideration of their needs and values? There is considerable evidence...
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Virtual Reality technology use in the context of healthcare is new, exciting, and, as is often the case with hyped-up tech, being used without a complete understanding of the benefits and risks. The use of immersive virtual reality (IVR) has shown great promise in distraction from pain, training for cognitive and hands-on surgical work, as well as anxiety reduction and improving provider empathy skills. It may be relatively easy to...
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Our newly formed team, fresh off a collaborative Google Doc high, have released this blog post about the use of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality in soft skills development. Please journey with us as we dive into the world of Virtual learning and balancing edtech with educational theory. Team Anonymous Dumbo Octopus is Jeff Clemens, Anita Fahrenbruch, Alastair Linds, and myself, Christy Boyce. CB
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The RRU MALAT Program journey has brought our cohort to course LRNT 526, Inquiry into Contemporary Issues in Learning Technologies. In this course, we will be using the practice of critical inquiry to explore a learning technology through the lens of a specific learning experience and a further, deeper dive into a subsection of the use of that technology. I have joined Jeff Clemens, Alastair Linds, and Anita Fahrenbruch to form...
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