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[MAKE: Blog] As Dr. Craig Kizewic worked on the infant, the heart rate began to drop and oxygen levels were declining, but quick work saved the baby. The baby was a new interactive medical simulator known as BabySIM. At 21 pounds and 28 inches in length, BabySIM has the physical characteristics of a three- to six-month old infant, but its fat little belly is stuffed full of computer parts.

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[The Business Word Inc.] Technology: Shands Jacksonville Hospital gets baby simulator: is the first to install a babysimulator. Impact graphs from the AP: Shands Jacksonville hospital was the first in the world to receive the simulated baby from Medical Educational Technologies Inc..., on Wednesday. At 21 pounds and 28 inches in length, BabySIM has the physical characteristics

[Blogging Baby - www.bloggingbaby.com _] Florida hospital gets first “simulator baby”: Shands Jacksonville hospital in Florida is the first hospital in the world to use an interactive infant simulator, called BabySIM. The mannequin will be used to train emergency room doctors, paramedics, and medical students how to care for their tiniest patients. BabySIM recognizes and responds to medical treatment and drugs, while simulating human-like sounds and motions. BabySIM can be either a boy or a girl and also cries and urinates.

[Medical Informatics Insider] Infant Simulator Delivered at Jacksonville Hospital: Shands received the $52,000 product through a grant from the Children's Miracle Network. The hospital will use BabySIM to train staff, but will also offer sessions for paramedics and emergency medical technicians in a 17-county region in north Florida.

[Bloggingbaby.com] Florida hospital gets first “simulator baby” - Blogging Baby - www ...: The mannequin will be used to train emergency room doctors, paramedics, and medical students how to care for their tiniest patients. BabySIM recognizes and responds to medical treatment and drugs, while simulating human-like sounds and motions. BabySIM can be either a boy or a girl and also cries and urinates. Doctors hope that using the simulator will help perfect the procedures they use.

[Bloggingbaby.com] Florida hospital gets first “simulator baby” - Blogging Baby - www ...: ... hospital in the world to use an interactive infant simulator, called BabySIM. ... Privacy: Your email address will be used for Blogging Baby news only. ...

[Bloggingbaby.com] Blogging Baby - www.bloggingbaby.com _: That comes as a surprise to the poster, Tracy Berryman of Tennessee, who put her story on the Baby Wearer forums in March, and who now claims that the company is attempting to defame and discredit her. Blogging Baby spoke with Berryman both over email and telephone this week to get her side of the story. She told us that when she first reported this issue to the company, Amby was sincere and apologetic - offering not only to fix the alleged defect, but also to pay her medical expenses. Then, she says, without warning, she was dealing with a different Amby: one who communicated through cease and desist orders, and threatened her with lawsuits for “defaming” the company.

[Businessword.com] Business Word Blog: Technology: Shands Jacksonville Hospital gets ...: For the 12 months ended in March, 2005, health insurance costs per hour worked were up 7.5% for private employers, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Sure, that’s still well above the overall inflation rate. But it’s down from the 9.3% rate for the year that ended in March, 2004—and well off the recent peak of 11.4% seen in mid-2002. Among the key reasons for the slower pace: a slackening of price increases on everything from hospital procedures to doctor visits and the shifting of a larger share of health costs to employees in the form of higher copayments and deductibles.”

[Beadedmemories.com] BM - Tech Aggregation: Craig Kizewic worked on the infant, the heart rate began to drop and oxygen levels were declining, but quick work saved the baby. The baby was a new interactive medical simulator known as BabySIM. At 21 pounds and 28 inches in length, BabySIM has the physical characteristics .

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