3D Virtual Training and Collaboration Software
2207 Bridgepointe Parkway, Suite 200,
San Mateo,
CA 94404 Other,
United States of America
Forterra Systems provides software that enables hospitals and healthcare organizations to train for a range of skills and improve teamwork and communications through online collaboration. Our On-Line Interactive Virtual Environment (OLIVE) software platform immerses each participant in a 3D virtual environment that looks and interacts like the real world.
Each participant is represented as a realistic computer-graphic character, known as an avatar, that moves and speaks under the user’s control. Using this new medium of communication, also known as virtual worlds, virtual reality or virtual simulation, organizations can train and collaborate in ways not previously possible.
Forterra’s OLIVE is a multi-user virtual experience that centers on a simulated patient instead of a physical one. Virtual patients are placed in a virtual medical space where real practitioners can respond to their symptoms and diagnostics, and provide care. This solution is considerably more flexible in its requirements for space, and is lower cost, than high-end physical simulators.
An unlimited variety of training scenarios is possible, with example scenarios provided for immediate use. Scenarios include learning objectives for learner participants, scripted directions for standardized role-player participants, assessment instruments for individual and team performance, and teaching guides for faculties, facilitators and instructors.
One example scenario is the simulation of an emergency department, outfitted with the functionality to support emergency management of multiple patients in a mass casualty incident. It includes life-saving airway and breathing management, cardio-pulmonary resuscitation, intravenous administration of saline and blood, oral, intramuscular and intravenous application of numerous drugs from a pharmacopoeia, and other necessary procedures and actions.
OLIVE supports the following uses of virtual worlds for healthcare and medical applications:
OLIVE provides unique, collaborative virtual world capabilities for healthcare organizations interested in solving process, treatment and training challenges. Key product features include:
Forterra is an innovative leader in the application of virtual world and simulation technologies, solving today’s problems and designing solutions for the challenges in tomorrow’s healthcare and life sciences arena. Applications of Forterra’s software and services improve patient safety, offer immersive therapy and rehabilitation, and increase collaboration, leading to a reduction in healthcare costs.
Forterra’s 3D virtual software also reduces medical errors through improved communication and team skills, expands the training opportunities available to a wider spectrum of care-givers, and reaches out to consumers with a branded virtual world experience.
Forterra offers significant experience developing and deploying applications in the healthcare arena through the Forterra Studios team in collaboration with our partners at Innovation in Learning, who have been developing medical simulations for training for over a decade. The combined experience of the Forterra Studios team and our partners brings the right capabilities to solve your real-world challenges in the healthcare field.
Forterra Systems is pleased to announce that, effective today, all assets of the company have been acquired by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). SAIC is a FORTUNE 500® scientific, engineering and technology applications company that uses its deep domain knowledge to solv
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2207 Bridgepointe Parkway, Suite 200
San Mateo
CA 94404
Other
United States of America