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Innovative VR-based Program Piloted by Community Health Systems through the HealthStream Resuscitation Innovation Lab
Unique program focuses on leadership capabilities of the clinical team leader in improving resuscitation outcomes, a largely overlooked, critical component
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nUnique program focuses on leadership capabilities of the clinical team leader in improving resuscitation outcomes, a largely overlooked, critical component of training for code blue events\n\n NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nHealthStream (Nasdaq: HSTM) announced today that CHSPSC, LLC (CHS), an affiliate of Community Health Systems, Inc. (NYSE: CYH), one of the nation’s leading operators of general acute care hospitals, is launching a pilot of a new virtual reality (VR) based education program through the HealthStream Resuscitation Innovation Lab. The pilot will explore the effectiveness of new VR-based training focused on improving an individual’s team leadership capabilities in resuscitation events in clinical environments. As a founding partner in this Lab, CHS’s participation in this pilot will advance knowledge and innovations in resuscitation science for the benefit of their patients and the healthcare industry at-large.\n\n\nIn hospitals, code blue emergencies—signifying cardiac arrests—can occur anywhere in a hospital. In such situations, nurses and physicians quickly form the resuscitation team where life-saving resuscitation efforts are immediately performed. The number of clinicians who comprise the team, their roles, and communication responsibilities are typically determined in real-time as the urgent event unfolds. These decisions, along with necessarily rapid clinical decision-making, are relegated to the clinical leader of the team, making the leadership role critical in determining outcomes. The new, unique VR-based pilot focuses on this critical component of resuscitation training: improving the leadership capabilities of the clinical leader in code blue emergencies.\n\n\nIt is important to note that for optimal impact in improving clinical leadership capabilities, training needs to be realistic. According to the Journal of Medical Internet Research (2019), training via a VR methodology results in better knowledge and skills outcomes of health professionals than training via online or offline education. At CHS, the HealthStream Resuscitation Innovation Lab will be setup with VR headsets for participants to use. The program itself is “room-scale,” which means that a space is needed to allow physical movement, thus replicating real-world movement and making the virtual environment seem more real—as it was ...