IMSH 2025 Day 1 was a great success. Don’t forget to check out yesterday’s article IMSH 2025 Day 1 to see the latest clinical simulation updates. “Looking Back Reaching Forward,” this year’s theme, continued today with the enthusiasm that occurs with how to embrace the future collaborate to advance healthcare simulation. This HealthySimulation.com article by HealthySimulation.com’s Content Mangers Dr. Teresa Gore will provide a recap of IMSH 2025 Day 2 from Orlando, Florida.
HealthySimulation.com Interviews Key Industry Leadership
On Saturday Lance Baily, Founder/CEO of HealthySimulation.com interviewed key healthcare simulation industry leadership, learning more about what was new from their company at IMSH 2025, what role AI is playing in their corporate operations and medical simulators, what trends they see as important to follow and finally what they think the industry needs to do in-order to expand global reach. Watch the full interview playlist here:
Watch these informative interviews individually here:
Matt Merino – CEO of Education Management Solutions
Dan Micic – Founder/CEO of Medical Shipment
Dr. Ryan Ribeira – Founder/CEO of SimX (recently acquired by Madison Industries)
Brian Truesdale – President/CEO of Elevate Healthcare (owned by Madison Industries)
Neil Weber – President of North America at Laerdal Medical
IMSH 2025 Day 2 Recap
IMSH Day 2 provided attendees with many great opportunities to learn and grow as future leaders in healthcare simulation. The IMSH 2025 theme continued with the reaching forward and how to impact the future of healthcare simulation.
The Lou Oberendorf Lecture on Innovation and Healthcare Simulation: Crystal Washington
Futurist, author, and Hall of Fame Speaker Crystal Washington equips organizations with the
knowledge they need to become “future-proof.” As a technology strategist and certified futurist, Crystal makes complex artificial intelligence, social media, and app technology easy to understand and accessible for everyday people. As one of Forbes’ 50 Leading Female Futurists, she appears weekly on season two of the Emmy-nominated show Life 2.0.
Key takeaways from Crystal Washington:
- The business cycle used to be 75 years. In 2002 the time decreased to 15 years, now it is 3-7 years. This means businesses need to reinvent or refresh themselves at an unprecedented rate.
- At this rate, no one will ever be caught up.
- Our brains pick up minor changes and big changes as danger.
- To future-proof yourself: own your future and take action. Do not wait for your future to fall into your lap. No one is coming to rescue you -put on your own superhero cape.
- No one can know everything about a domain.
- Adopt a culture of curiosity.
SSH Fellows Main Stage Presentation: Screening “The Pitch”
The Pitch Documentary: Patient Safety’s Next Generation (2024) is the follow-up documentary to To Err Is Human: A Patient Safety Documentary (2019) by Mike Eisenberg. Curiosity led Mike to this latest film project, a documentary that focuses on avoidable medical mistakes. Medical mistakes are estimated to be responsible for 444,000 deaths each year in the U.S., the third leading cause of death. To Err is Human was the culmination of 3+ years of research and interviews by Tall Tale Productions. Together, they conducted over 40 hours of on-camera interviews with experts from across the healthcare spectrum to gain a clear view of the current state of patient safety in medicine in the United States. This documentary is available on Apple TV and Prime.
Following the screening, there was a Q & A session with the film Director, Mike Eisenberg. K.T. Waxman moderated the session with Mike, Connie Lopez, Paul Phrampus, and Wendy Le Grange. The panelists represented patient safety and quality, leadership, and industry. Each panelist shared their thoughts and ideas on how to make a difference in healthcare outcomes and patient safety with technology and the human touch.
Learning Labs
Members of the SSH Corporate Roundtable exhibiting at IMSH 2025 had the opportunity to showcase the products and services to healthcare simulation professionals. The Learning Labs for Sunday included:
- Limbs & Things Global Presents: Adding Technology to Task Trainers – A Cost-Effective Way to Enhance Learning
- Gordon Center for Simulation and Innovation in Medical Education Presents: Innovative Simulations for Training & Evaluation of Cardiopulmonary Skills
- Body Interact Presents: Hybrid Pedagogical Approaches with Virtual Patients
- Inovus Medical Presents: Training the Robotic Surgeon – New Frontiers
- Lumis Corp. Presents: Incorporating Hands-on XR Into Your Existing Training Workflows With the Lumis InSight Platform and Any Physical Simulation Modality
- Intelligent Video Solutions Presents: The Power of Video in Healthcare Simulation
- Medical-X Presents: Management of a Simulation Center – Operational Approach, Challenges and Solutions
- Laerdal Medical Presents: Cultivating Maternal Competence – Advancing Competency-Based Learning with Interactive Simulation Workshop
- Surgical Science & Simbionix Simulators Presents: Enhancing Urgent Care Team Training with Virtual Simulators and Continuous Virtual Patients
- SimX Presents: Teaching with AR, VR, MR, XR
- Lumeto Presents: Create Your Own AI Guided XR Sim Experience
What’s New in Sim Showcase
The What’s New in Sim Showcase highlighted companies in the Exhibit Hall Theatre. Each company introduced and demonstrated their product or technology to the public for an “Exclusive First Look” at the newest innovations in Simulation in Healthcare! Seven other companies were highlighted on Saturday. Three more will be highlighted on Monday.
- iSimulate: Atlas Junior and REALTi 360
- University of Miami Gordon Center for Simulation and Innovation in Medical Simulation: Harvey Premier
- Biomed Simulation: Revolutionising Surgical Training: Introducing Interactive Beating Heart Platform
Healthcare Simulation Dictionary
The Healthcare Simulation Dictionary 3.0 was printed by AHRQ and available for attendees at IMSH 2025. Dr. Ellen Deutsch from AHRQ was added to the associate editors. The editors and associate editors provided an overview of the changes and updates to the dictionary. They reviewed the process for how to get a word into the dictionary and the forms on SSH to complete. There were 170 new or revised definitions and over 44 additional simulation-specific terms. The acronym list was expanded. Download a copy of the Healthcare Simulation Dictionary.
SimVentor Showcase Demonstrations
IMSH 2025 provided an opportunity for 58 SimVentors to present their solutions to clinical simulation issues. These healthcare simulation pioneers delivered brief presentations of their products, followed by demonstrations illustrating how they address common simulation issues. Thanks to the SSH Fund, each category’s SimVentors winner receives a monetary prize of $1,250. The top overall award is given to the entry with the highest scores across all categories: impact, innovation, and approach. The best impact award recognizes the candidate with the most significant influence on the IMSH community. The best innovation award celebrates the highest creativity demonstrated among all entrants, and the best approach is given to the candidate showing the most merit. Additionally, there is a people’s choice award. This event showcased how healthcare simulation professionals can drive innovation and shape the future of clinical simulation.
