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IBM Opens New 3D Virtual Healthcare Island on Second Life |
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 IBM (NYSE: IBM) debuted at HIMSS®08 is a newest island in Second Life: IBM Virtual Healthcare Island. The island is a unique, three-dimensional representation of the challenges facing today's healthcare industry and the role information technology will play in transforming global healthcare delivery to meet patient needs. The IBM Virtual Healthcare Island is designed with a futuristic atmosphere and provides visitors with an interactive demonstration of IBM's open-standards-based Health Information Exchange (HIE) architecture. Working with project leads in the United States, the island was designed and built by an all-IBM-India team. "We are pleased to offer our IBM Virtual Health Island as a tool for our healthcare customers and our worldwide sales force. The island allows each healthcare stakeholder to envision how the total system can be affected by intercession at each juncture of the healthcare delivery process," said Dan Pelino, General Manager, IBM Global Healthcare & Life Sciences Industry. "We believe that the use of our new virtual world provides an important, next-generation Internet-based resource to show how standards; business planning; the use of a secured, extensible and expandable architecture; HIE interoperability; and data use for healthcare analytics, quality, wellness and disease management are all helping to transform our industry."
So what are you waiting for? Go right now and visit the IBM health care center.
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