Archive for April 2nd, 2009

The good news is that most patients, 60 percent in fact, felt appropriately “connected” to their primary care physician.
However, that leaves a significant 40 percent who were not.

Second Life is a “virtual” world where users act and communicate using avatars.
A medical school in the UK is experimenting with the platform, where “students [via their avatars] enter a patient’s room and their work begins. Because their assignment takes place in a respiratory ward, they can access recordings of real-life patients’ breathing to help [...]


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