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What Doctors Say:

"With the experience of the HeartFX pod, we have the opportunity as clinicians to truly, in as realistic a manner possible, actually experience the symptoms that our patients are complaining of."
Dr. Mark Dunlap, Associate Chief Cardiology, VA Medical Center, Cleveland

 

"I have studied MS and treated patients for 35 years, but Step Inside MS has taken my understanding to a new level."
Dr. David W. Brandes, Medical Director of the Northridge Multiple Sclerosis Center - Assistant Clinical Professor of Neurology at the University of California, Los Angeles

 

"The more that a doctor can personalize and internalize the symptoms and think about them, it can only be helpful and add to the empathy a physician can have for a patient. It’s not just for doctors, it’s good for nurses and other health personnel. Unless doctors are thinking of heart failure as an etiology, it certainly gets underestimated. I think it’s a great teaching tool.”
Dr. Marrick Kukin, director of the Congestive Heart Failure Program at St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital, New York

 

"I think the MS simulator will help aid other physicians, my colleagues, in helping them to know what their MS patients are experiencing."
Dr Vincent F. Macaluso, Neurologist and MS Patient

 

"I absolutely would recommend this simulation to my colleges and especially recommend it to primary care physicians who may not see the patients when they are that ill, which is how I seen them, when they are much more sick. The trick is to identify patients early, treat early, and even to try and prevent heart failure."
Dr. Ileanda Pina, Professor of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University

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Immersive Simulation

Tell me, I'll forget.

Show me, I'll remember

Involve me, I'll understand

Immerse me, and I'll evolve.

We accurately simulate the human condition and disease states, so that doctors can experience what it really feels like to walk in their patients shoes. These fully immersive simulations are so revolutionary, the Smithsonian has inquired about the Heart Failure Simulator becoming a part of their permanent collection.

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Walk in the shoes of your patient.


For the medical and pharmacological industries we developed the world’s first fully immersive heart failure, multiple sclerosis, and RLS Simulators. These multi-sensory, disease-state simulations place doctors, health care providers, medical students, and family members in the shoes of the patients. This allows them to accurately experience both the debilitating physical symptoms of the illness and the underlying emotional and social implications. By revealing the entire story of the disease, our programs allow for an unparalleled understanding of the patient. The connection goes beyond any standard clinical rapport because it is based on relating first hand to the plight of others.

Additionally, the press-friendly medical simulations draw wide attention and promote awareness of each disease. They can help support advocacy campaigns, fundraising efforts or drive thought leadership. So far, they have appeared nationally on ABC, NBC, FOX, and WIRED TV. They have been featured in articles published by New Scientist, Wired, and The Boston Globe, and The Heart FXPod was profiled extensively by Apple.

HCX pod features:

  • Environmentally isolated environment (light, sound, temperature, humidity and scent)
  • Ultra-definition audio and visual fully immersive displays
  • Self contained software and hardware control system
  • Configurable options for motion control and human interfaces

 

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How do we do it?

Simulating the human condition is a rigorous process. How do you simulate a disease so that it feels accurate, and safely tells the complete story? We use state-of-the-art sensors and biometric feedback to simulate diseases so closely that patients confirm the realism and doctors sign off on the medical accuracy.

You can read about some of the simulations we have developed here, each designed to help doctors, students and/or the public feel the effects of a disease within the context of real life patient stories and with as much accuracy as possible.

How do we do this? First we spend time with doctors and KOLs to understand the clinical definition of the disease and symptoms we are planning on simulating, then we meet with many patients and discus the individual experiences they have with the disease. We then develop the first round of sensory prototypes on the HCX platform. This allows our clients, doctors and patients to sign off on the accuracy of the symptomatic effect very early in the process.

When the accuracy is verified we integrate the sensory effects into the design of the final device. The story is developed from real doctor and patient stories of the disease. We can build a composite story to highlight the range of symptoms of a disease as we did for RLS, or we create a very specific story to highlight a specific message or stage of a disease such as NYHA Class 2 Heart Failure.

Immersive 4D Simulation of disease method of action for up to 30 people.

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