| | December 20199UTLOOK Healthcare Tech the Women's Guild Simulation Center seeks to replicate the reality of daily clinical care. The combined facilities offer in excess of 20,000 square feet of educational and research space to over 20,000 customers annually.The Gewertz and Cohen Laboratory (OR360) seeks to understand the relationships among task, team, technology and environment to create a patient- and practitioner-centered healthcare system that delivers high-quality, safe care at affordable cost. Human factors approaches to improve patient safety and provider satisfaction/performance include using simulations to study and train teams, direct observation of various tasks and workflows, and focus groups/interviews to understand individual perceptions of tasks and processes. The laboratory is unique in that it includes an experimental simulation space with flexible wall equipment on movable ceiling tracks that pivot around surgical teams, a range of realistic equipment, and a state-of-the-art control room and video data collection system. The space has been transformed into a trauma bay to understand various teamwork competencies as they impact performance, an operating theater to explore the impact of introducing new technology into the environment, and various other simulated environments for usability testing and brainstorming of design solutions to current challenges. The Gewertz and Cohen Laboratory collaborates with the Women's Guild Simulation Center for Advanced Clinical Skills to study healthcare processes that impact performance and patient safety like teamwork, technology, environmental design, and complex tasks. The Women's Guild Simulation Center for Advanced Clinical Skills was opened in October 2013 and has quickly become one of the busiest centers in the United States. The $30 Million Dollar investment provides learners with real operating rooms, ICU, Trauma and Obstetric environments. Additionally, significant space is allocated for Virtual, Augmented and Skills based education. A key to success has been the support of senior leadership, Medical, Nursing and Allied Health Professionals. The engagement of all disciplines has created an educational environment open to all delivering multi professional engagement in 45 percent of activities. Healthcare is such a team-oriented profession the need to train like we work is becoming more evident when creating higher reliability systems.Such integration across health systems is not always evident and the need to engage and meet learning goals is essential to facility success. The rapid and evolving simulation technologies offer more opportunities for various disciplines to engage. There is a clear understanding that we cannot continue to make the same mistakes by taking the same approach. Looking forward, Simulation programs will continue to grow. An ever-expanding number of medical professions are requiring more access to simulation for education, and in some cases, summative assessment. These changes also need to engage health system policy makers in changing their systems and processes to embrace this patient centric approach to education. Additionally, it is essential to understand that Simulation is one piece of a complex matrix which requires efforts across many layers of healthcare systems. Ultimately our aim is to provide the safest and best possible care to the patients we serve. HTSimulation is one piece of a complex matrix which requires efforts across many layers of healthcare systems. Ultimately our aim is to provide the safest and best possible care to the patients we serve.Russell D Metcalfe-SmithTara Cohen
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