Building Better Simulation Programs with Video, Data, and Community with Lance Baily

It's key to have collaboration between those departments.

And it is important to set realistic expectations and see where trends are going.

And I think that ties into...

Trends have changed since you entered into this space and since you started making recommendations and advising teams on AV solutions.

What are the trends you're seeing today and where do you think the next five or 10 years will take us? What does that projection look like to you?

Yeah.

So certainly, you know, I think we have always and often with any type of technology, a reduction in size and an increase in quality.

So, you know, a funny story that I like to relay is that for the Clinical Simulation Center of Las Vegas, they had budgeted a certain amount of dollars for televisions.

And by the time that the purchasing order in the building was ready and they actually, you know, got around to making that order, they could get TV screens that were

you

know, 15 inches bigger because just the cost of reduction in terms of screen size and quality was comparable, but it took two years later.

And so there was just better stuff out there.

So, um, I think, you know, the continued trend that we see, you know, macro level in any kind of technology is this continued reduction of physical presence and expansion of, of digital capability.

Um, certainly XR technologies have become a much larger and virtual patients, uh, you know, as a, as a component of that much larger industry segment prior to COVID, we were seeing that the two number, the two leading sales lead requests were mannequins and audio video systems.

And during COVID and ever since then, we have seen that digital-based learning technologies like virtual patients has been tied with them or even exceeded them at times with regards to requests to use our fine vendor forms on healthysimulation.com. You know, that in and of itself represents kind of a need to better understand, okay, how do we take those kinds of technologies and bring them into the learning ecosystem with regards to capturing what's happening in system, as opposed to maybe a physical event.

We can have, you know, more information that needs to be imported into the system and how to relay that.

And how do we do more cloud-based content that allows for decentralization of of the hardware necessary to perform simulation and scale.

So a lot of programs have kind of now further deployments that are cloud-based, and so less kind of infrastructure necessary in specific locations outside of the capture materials themselves, but then that's being directly kind of connected to a digital-based server.

And so I think... you know, there's an evolution of the technology and that will continue, right? I think we will now see what AI is going to be bringing into the spaces.

And so, you know, I definitely think that's going to have huge implications with regards to a lot of these technologies and how they're managed and maintained and the types of reports that we can receive, not only in terms of the operational utilization, but the operational challenges or issues that might be occurring and how can we kind of look at those at scale.

So I think those are the primary things that the technology specialist has had to focus on.

And then just a wider kind of audience overall in terms of clinical educators and institutions understanding about the benefits of audiovisual.

Lastly, on that point,

you know, I think it's kind of really important for us comparing the healthcare industry in space to the aviation industry.

And they have three things that are mandated and regulated that we do not have in the aviation space that we do not have in healthcare.