Closing the gaps in healthcare education, training, and performance through advanced computing and the Next Generation Internet
TOUCH is a multi-year collaboration between the Schools of Medicine at The University of Hawaii and The University of New Mexico, which was developed to integrate advanced technologies into education and training to enhance experiential distributed learning, aimed at improving human comprehension, retention of knowledge, and ultimate performance. Employs medical case scenarios as virtual models to make learning of critical concepts relevant and translatable to real-life application. Deploys and distributes these methods to remote training sites using the Next Generation Internet (NGI) Access Grid.
The goal of project TOUCH is to improve the quality of health care service and education in remote, multicultural areas in Hawaii and New Mexico through modern Telehealth technologies. TOUCH seeks to evaluate the effectiveness of advanced information systems and high performance computing in the enhancement of education, training, patient care management, and problem solving.