White Paper & Summary of interviews with healthcare and simulation experts between September 2024 and the end of November 2024

Background to the study

Over the past few months, Omnilive's marketing teams have conducted a number of interviews with healthcare professionals and experts specializing in teaching and training in simulation centers.

The aim was to understand your specific issues and assess how a Multiview video solution, like the one offered by Omnilive, could meet these needs to improve performance and reduce errors in patient care through the use of simulation.

The discussions were particularly instructive, and we had the opportunity to highlight two concrete applications that could significantly improve training and safety in healthcare establishments.

• 260 experts were connected on Linkedin
• 44 interviews were conducted between September and November 2024
• 3 Sim Centers moved to a pilot program

For a reminder about Multiview and to experiment with Omnilive: https://watch.omnilive.tv/demoupec1

Key issue 1: Interprofessionalism

Issues identified:

How to improve communication and coordination within multi-disciplinary teams (doctors, nurses, care assistants, etc.), while reducing the biases associated with a fragmented view of interventions.

Explored solution:

Omnilive's Multiview technology enables the immersive recording and streaming of a simulation from several simultaneous angles. This principle is based on the faithful reproduction of the different perspectives of the participants, accompanied by real-time feedback of constants and measurements. In contrast, a conventional recording with a realization will, by its very nature, prioritize this information.

Each practitioner can thus experience the situation from the perspective of the other team members, fostering better mutual understanding and optimized collaboration. This approach reinforces not only the learning of technical gestures, but also the management of team dynamics and collective decision-making, essential to guarantee increased safety and optimal performance in the hospital environment.

Anticipated benefits:

• Limiting tunnel vision: Thanks to the simultaneous reproduction of multiple perspectives, each practitioner can apprehend the situation from the angle of the other team members. This immersion in colleagues' points of view helps to avoid “tunnel” effects, where a practitioner in the case of a “large-scale” simulation might focus excessively on his or her own task, to the detriment of the overall vision. By adopting a global understanding of the intervention, practitioners are better able to perceive contextual elements and make informed decisions in real time..
• Optimizing understanding of each other's roles and scope: Multiview simulation clarifies the responsibilities and scope of action of each team member. By visualizing each other's actions and decisions in real time, each practitioner can better understand how his or her role fits into the overall operation. This makes it easier to delineate individual tasks and avoid areas of ambiguity, boosting the efficiency and fluidity of hospital operations.
• Identifying weak signals for more effective communication: Multiview technology captures not only gestures and actions, but also verbal and non-verbal signals exchanged between team members. This approach identifies the subtleties of communication, such as unspoken cues, facial expressions and gestures, which play a crucial role in coordination and decision-making. By improving recognition of these cues, teams can adjust their communication to be clearer, more responsive and better synchronized, reducing the risk of misunderstandings or errors.
• Ensure better patient safety by improving collaborative processes: By facilitating the understanding of team dynamics and the coordination of actions, this approach contributes directly to enhancing patient safety. Multiview simulations help identify dysfunctions in collaborative processes and correct them before they have any real consequences. Better communication, clearer task allocation and more informed decision-making ensure that critical actions are followed up more precisely, minimizing risks and improving the quality of care delivered.

Key issue 2: Learning surgical procedures

Issues identified:

Accelerate the assimilation of technical gestures required in the operating room, while identifying unnecessary or potentially dangerous actions.

Explored solution:

Omnilive technology enables better spatialization of the technical gesture. Visualizing a procedure from different angles enables practitioners to better grasp the position and trajectory of the gestures performed. This facilitates their understanding of the actions to be performed and the adjustments required. This spatialization enhances learning by enabling professionals to memorize key movements more quickly and reproduce them with greater precision while reducing the risk of error.

Anticipated benefits:

• ?Spatializing the surgical gesture in a complex environment: Multi-angle viewing provides total immersion in the procedure. The panoramic view of the critical gestures performed by practitioners offers a clear vision of the spatial context in which these gestures take place. This means practitioners can better apprehend the trajectory and precision of gestures in space. This is particularly essential in complex procedures where spatial precision is crucial. Observation of the overall context and of gestures from different perspectives, helps to analyze the decisions made and their impact on the evolution of the procedure.
• Accurately identify and correct “parasitic gestures”: Multiview provides a detailed view of every movement made by the team members, making it easy to spot parasitic gestures - those unnecessary or inefficient movements that can compromise the quality of an intervention. Simultaneous visual analysis from different angles, without the hierachization induced by editing, transcribes an intervention more faithfully. It helps to identify these gestures and compare them with ideal actions, facilitating their correction and thus contributing to optimizing the efficiency of technical gestures.
• Improve practitioners' learning curves: Access to multiview simulations enables practitioners to tailor their learning to their own feelings and perception. By observing operations from several simultaneous angles, each professional can choose the perspective that is most intuitive to them, accelerating not only the assimilation of technical gestures, but also the understanding of team dynamics and decision-making strategies. This immersive, adaptive approach fosters active learning, where practitioners can easily identify their mistakes, understand their causes and correct them more quickly. By allowing everyone to view the simulation in the way that suits them best, this method makes learning not only faster, but also more effective, enhancing individual progress and reinforcing practitioners' overall competence.

What's next?

Pilot programs:

The studies and pilot phases we have already launched with some of you are aimed at testing the effectiveness of the Multiview solution in real-life conditions.

These tests will enable us to put the technology to the test in a variety of scenarios, in order to validate its ability to improve team training in real-life situations. This includes observing the impact of the solution on practitioners' performance, their ability to assimilate technical gestures and optimize their collaboration in real time.

Research Study

At the same time, we will be gathering feedback from the teams on the pedagogical impact observed. The aim is to measure the direct effect of the solution on the understanding of gestures, the fluidity of operations and the improvement of inter-professional dynamics.?

This valuable feedback will enable us to identify the strengths of the technology, as well as areas where improvements could be made to better meet the needs of practitioners and healthcare facilities.

Last but not least, these pilot phases will enable us to identify any necessary adjustments prior to wider deployment. Thanks to user feedback and the data collected, we will be able to detect any friction points or limitations in the solution and make technical or pedagogical adjustments.

It's never too late to find out more about our pilot programs. If you'd like to suggest contexts or areas of intervention specific to your specialty, we'd be delighted to hear from you. A key aspect of our approach is the enrichment of our experience through real-life case studies.

Conclusion

We'd like to thank all the participants for their commitment and the richness of the discussions. Your feedback is essential if we are to adapt our solution to your specific needs.

If you have any questions or would like to arrange a complementary presentation, please do not hesitate to contact me directly.

Best regards,

Cyril Zajac

ceo Omnilive

https://www.dhirubhai.net/in/cyrilzajac/

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