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THE STATE OF OHIO HA S AWARDED CA SE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSIT Y AND CLE VEL AND CLINIC $1 MILLION FROM ITS CAPITAL BILL TO SUPPORT TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENTS IN THEIR JOINT HE ALTH EDUCATION CAMPUS, SCHEDULED TO OPEN IN THE SUMMER OF 2019. LE ADERS OF THE T WO INSTITUTIONS PURSUED THE PROJECT A S AN OPPORTUNIT Y TO REIMAGINE THE PREPAR ATION OF HE ALTH CAREŽPROFESSIONALS FOR AN ER A OF DYNAMIC AND DR AMATIC CHANGE. AN ESSENTIAL ELEMENT OF THAT VISION INVOLVES PROVIDING STUDENTS AND FACULT Y THE MOST ADVANCED TE ACHING, LE ARNING AND CAREGIVING TOOLS AVAIL ABLE. "HE ALTH CARE TODAY is experiencing unprecedented transformation," said Toby Cosgrove, MD, CEO and President of Cleveland Clinic.¯"The new Hea lth Education Campus will provide students the innovative education they need to help shape a better future for patients." Part of that forward-thinking instruc- tiona l approach i nvolves Microsof t HoloLens, a mixed-reality device that a llows users to see and interact with three-dimensiona l holog ra ms. Ca se Western Reserve and Cleveland Clinic are collaborating on a new anatomy cur- riculum in which students would learn about the body's organs and systems with holograms that can mimic movement, disease or any other features a professor wants to teach. The technology allows a significant departure from the traditional approach to anatomy, which involves extensive hands-on time with cadavers. Medica l students who have tried the HoloLens say it would have saved them dozens of hours in anatomy because of its ability to provide multiple angles and cross-sectional views of di¥erent parts of the body. Construction on the 485,000-square- foot Health Education Campus began in October 2015. W hen complete, the structure will encompass approximately eight-and-a-half football fields of built space and include 5,000 tons of steel. Its four stories will include state-of-the-art classrooms and lecture halls, study and dining areas, and the nation's first heli- copter simulator for flight-nurse training. The building features a 27,000-square- foot atrium that will draw ma ximum light from a specially engineered roof of movable glass panels.¯ This centra l open area, as well as the four stories o f o f f i c e s a n d lea r n i n g spa c e s , all aim to encour- a g e i n t e r a c t i o n among the medical, d e n t a l , n u r s i n g a nd a llied hea lth students enrolled t h e r e . ¯ R e s e a r c h shows that patients' outcomes a nd levels of satisfaction a re h ig her when t hey receive treatment f rom a hea lt h ca re tea m rat her t ha n i nd iv idua ls work i n g sepa rately; t he new ca mpu s w i l l a l low s t udent s t o lea r n more about ot her profession s a nd tea m-ba sed practice before they g raduate — g iv ing them a sig nif ica nt adva ntage as they beg in their ca reers. In addition to adva nced cla ssroom t e c h n olo g y, t h e H e a lt h E du c a t i on Ca mpus a lso w i l l feat ure integ rated controls for the ma nagement of ba sic ut i l it ies such a s plu mbi n g , heat i n g , lighting a nd shade controls. By includ- ing these systems from the sta r t, the bu i ld i n g w i l l be si g n i f ica nt ly more eff icient in terms of energ y usage a nd cos t s . I n a dd it ion t he bu i ld i n g w i l l include ma ny more network por ts a nd access points than typica l for a building of this size, simply because of expected i ncrea ses i n t he use of net work a nd WiFi connectivit y. Finally, as Cleveland Clinic and Case Western Reserve University representa- tives shared with legislators, some of the advanced technology likely to be used in the building hasn't been invented yet; the building's architects have been careful to create spaces and systems that can accom- modate updates and breakthroughs without knowledge of what they might be. ■ CWRU and Cleveland Clinic receive $1 million from Ohio for Health Education Campus 2 6