Simulation integration for healthcare education, training and assessment

Funded as part of the `Network-Enabled Platforms´ program, the Health Services Virtual Organization (HSVO) Project has developed a network-enabled platform (NEP) consisting of a messaging specification, a collection of devices, a bus interface architecture and a middleware hub (SAVOIR) that can support the authoring execution and tracking of multiple independent and integrated simulation activities. The HSVO NEP allows web devices to be coordinated, to talk to each other, to control each other, to use services from elsewhere and to use each other as services. This means that instructors and learners can have access to any services and devices at any time and location thereby supporting both scheduled and on-demand practice or instruction.