UF Startup Shadow Health Is Going Big and Staying Home
In early December, local UF startup Shadow Health, which develops virtual simulations for nursing and healthcare education, became part of Elsevier, a global leader in information and analytics, that is part of RELX, an even larger global provider of information-based analytics. The acquisition will hasten Shadow Health’s ability to reach its biggest goals.
Elsevier Acquires Shadow Health, a Leading Provider of Best-in-Class Healthcare Simulations
Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, and part of RELX, has acquired UF startup Shadow Health, a Florida-based developer of virtual simulations in nursing and healthcare education.
The Pandemic Can’t Keep Nursing Students from Clinical Practice Experience
Shadow Health’s ‘Digital Clinical Experiences’ fill a need, especially now One potential casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic might have been nursing programs. Might have been but wasn’t, due to a virtual-patient interaction program created by University of Florida researcher Benjamin Lok. Because personal protective equipment was in high demand, nursing students, such as those at […]
Nursing Program Switches to Virtual Education With Shadow Health
The rise of COVID-19 may have caused cancellations across much of the United States, but healthcare professionals never stop treating those in need. The Liberty University School of Nursing hasn’t paused adapting its program to a virtual format while continuing to train the next generation of nurses on the frontline of patient care. As is the case […]
COVID-19 Expert Nursing Panel Q & A
UF startup Shadow Health, an educational technology company, facilitated a panel discussion and Q & A with the Global Nursing Education Virtual Simulation Consortium on the topic of Clinical Hour Replacement in the Face of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Learn more about COVID-19 Expert Nursing Panel Q & A.
Virtual Humans Boost Mental Health Recovery
Humans are social creatures, but some things are just hard to talk about. For many people, mental health is one of those things. But what if you can’t talk about something where the leading treatment is talk therapy? Maybe try speaking to someone who’s not human. Benjamin Lok, a professor in the computer and information […]
Virtual Humans Boost Mental Health Recovery
Benjamin Lok, a professor in the computer and information science and engineering department at the University of Florida, has been studying applications of virtual humans for two decades. His research has led to the creation of dozens of virtual characters that appear in 1,500 different programs around the world and wrack up over a million […]
University of Florida Rank Among Top 100 Worldwide in Patents
The University of Florida (UF), along with the University of South Florida (USF) and the University of Central Florida (UCF) are setting the bar high by earning 218 patents altogether according to the Top 100 Worldwide Universities Granted U.S. Utility Patents in 2018. The report is published by the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) in […]
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 […]