Robert Armstrong shares an article that demonstrates how modeling and simulation tools can be used in nursing. There are a number of professional societies that impact both modeling and simulation (M&S) professionals and the healthcare M&S industry as a whole. The International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation & Learning (INACSL) serves the largest practitioner community – Nursing. There are approximately four million nurses in the U.S., and more than 20 million worldwide.M&S tools are used extensively throughout nursing education. In…

Bob Armstrong shares a post on Goodhart’s Law and why statistics are not always a solid foundation to count on. Goodhart’s Law is named for Charles Goodhart, a British economist who in 1975 popularized the idea that Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes. I think it was meant humorously, but the pungent truth of the statement made it stick. The point is sound. Essentially, any statistic that becomes a…

Umbrex is pleased to welcome Robert K Armstrong with Epicural.  Bob Armstrong has 15+ years experience consulting to startups, DoD, PE firms, established healthcare market leaders, state and federal government, and Fortune 500 companies. He provides corporate outreach for, and is executive director of the Sentara Center for Simulation and Immersive Learning at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia. Prior to EVMS, Bob was an embedded DoD consultant to DoD customers, where he helped restructure Navy fleet synthetic training and…