Shadow Health Educates Nurses of the Future with Virtual Humans

UF startup Shadow Health, an educational technology company, is bridging the “academic to practice skills” gap in health care by providing rich, interactive, digital learning environments for nursing and allied health education programs.

The company’s digital patient technology, patented in 2018, came from a team of world-class thinkers and researchers in human-centered computing at UF that included co-founders Aaron Kotranza and Benjamin Lok. Their natural language processor-based technology intrigued David Massias, co-founder and CEO of Shadow Health, who had been looking at the challenges nursing students had in transitioning from school to a clinical practice setting.

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