Virtual Medical Environments Workshop - March 8, 2010

A Half-Day Workshop on Opportunities, Barriers and Business Models
Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

Sponsored by Media X at Stanford University

Virtual environment platforms have gone through a peak of inflated expectations and appear to be in a trough of disillusionment. Some platforms are losing financial support from their sponsors. Yet major businesses and federal agencies continue to build their use of selected environments. In healthcare, 3D virtual medical environments are being used to present virtual patients for education, mass casualty exercises, and physician-patient meetings for PTSD and other mental health problems.

This half day workshop will bring together selected industry and academia representatives with experience in developing and disseminating virtual medical environments. Existing use cases will be presented and discussion will focus on opportunities and barriers. The goal will be to generate a Roadmap that presents some possible paths from the trough of disillusionment to a plateau of productivity.

SCHEDULE

Introduction and Review of Existing Systems: 1:00 - 2:00pm
Technology Opportunities and Barriers: 2:00 - 3:00pm
Organizational and Demographic Opportunities and Barriers: 3:15 - 4:15pm
Business Models, Current and Potential: 4:15 - 5:00pm
Wrap Up: 5:00 - 5:15pm

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Parvati Dev, Innovation in Learning Inc and Media X at Stanford University, USA
Eilif Trondsen, Strategic Business Insights, USA
Dan Gillette, InWorld Solutions, USA