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SimX Leads the Way in Medical Simulation

The idea of a holographic medical simulator came to Dr. Ryan Ribeira when he was in medical school doing simulations and training. He realized there were vast limitations with the vinyl mannequins they trained on, the same kind of dummies used for the last generation of medical students. A budding expert in emergency medicine, Ribeira saw that a pile of plastic and crude sensors provided a dangerously incomplete learning experience.

“These basic CPR dummies currently being used can only simulate one immobile body type, and one specific trauma situation.”

Then Dr. Ribeira had an “a-ha” moment that started a unique mission. In addition to treating patients in Stanford University Medical Center’s busy Emergency Department, he’s trying to change the face of medical training. His goal is to get past the limits of those expensive mannequins used in medical schools around the world, and replace them with much more realistic patients using Augmented Reality. His platform is the Meta 1 Developer Kit, and we’re happy to support Dr. Ribeira and his team at SimX in our partner program.

“With SimX on the Meta 1, students can practice using real instruments on virtual patients of any gender, age, or medical issue. We can simulate with live action, and in real time. That could include any clinical situation, such as birth, heart attack, or a stroke!”

“Our hope is to replace the current CPR dummies that cost up to half a million dollars each with our affordable and infinitely more diverse simulation app. We’ve successfully made medical simulations 100 times cheaper, making them affordable and accessible to all hospitals and training programs in the world. Students will get hundreds of hours more hands-on training before they face real-world scenarios and real, live patients.”

The need is urgent. Improved medical training will likely reduce medical errors. In the United States, avoidable medical mistakes remain the number three killer. These accidents come in 3rd place behind heart disease and cancer as the leading cause of death. They claim the lives of about 400,000 people, at a cost of some $1 trillion every year. At a recent Senate hearing, patient safety officials presented their ideas to address the problem, with technical solutions as the best hope.

The SimX team started building on the Meta SDK a year ago. The Meta 1 app enables medical students to practice a multitude of emergency medical scenarios on holographic, interactive patients. It helps prepare doctors-in-training to make the right decisions in life or death situations. The application recently won a first place at the prestigious International Meeting of the Society for Simulation for Healthcare.

SimX is about more than just medical training in wealthy parts of the world. It also has the long-term potential to revolutionize medicine in poor countries that simply cannot afford other types of advanced medical equipment. Medical schools around the world struggle to find money for basics, and SimX offers them an inexpensive way to provide sophisticated, real-life training.

Dr. Ribeira is inspired: “Imagine giving doctor’s in war-torn or disease ridden areas of the world the opportunity to improve their emergency field techniques with real-life scenarios, at a price they could actually afford.”

The SimX team ultimately decided to use the Meta SDK after attending one of Meta’s workshops.

For Ribeira, the choice was clear: “We chose to build our app on the Meta SDK over VR and tablet options because it had all the tracking features we needed. And the platform is extremely simple. No need to merge a bunch of other existing SDKs. And, importantly, the technology was appealing because of its tight Unity integration—an advantage for our team, which was already experienced in 3D environment programming on Unity.”

“At the Meta workshop, in less than 24 hours we had a working prototype of our application. I’ve been waiting for this technology to come to life for many years. I’m so excited that our work with Meta has produced it so quickly. We estimate that the app will be available, in a limited capacity, by summer 2015 and will progress quickly from there. A virtual patient for every medical student is a dream that is about to come true.”