HealthySimulation.comโs media coverage of the International Meeting for Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH) 2026 exhibit hall in San Antonio delivers an unparalleled, on-the-ground look at the latest medical simulation innovations shaping healthcare simulation worldwide. As the worldโs leading healthcare simulation resource website, HealthySimulation.com captured more than 100 vendor booth demos from Society for Simulation in Healthcareโs annual flagship event, showcasing new products, platforms, and services across nursing, medicine, EMS, military, surgical, and allied health training. These must-watch videos are essential viewing for simulation program leaders, educators, clinical faculty, technicians, procurement teams, and healthcare executives who want a fast, practical understanding of what vendors have recently launched, how solutions work in real-world clinical education and training environments, and where the market is heading. Every video has been added directly to the corresponding company pages within the new HealthySimulation.com vendor directory, a new, centralized, evergreen resource that connects hands-on product demonstrations with comprehensive profiles of the worldโs leading healthcare simulation manufacturers, distributors, and service providers.
IMSH 2026 Vendor Booth Demonstrations
Key clinical simulation vendor videos are shared here:
IMSH 2026 Exhibit Hall Playlist:
Laerdal:
SimX:
Education Management Solutions:
Medical Shipment:
Operative Experience Inc. (OEI):
Simulab:
Check out the other IMSH 2026 vendor videos through their new company profiles on the HealthySimulation.com vendor directory:
3B Scientific: known as American 3B Scientific in the United States, is a leading manufacturer of anatomical and biological teaching aids for science, training and patient education.
3D-Med: based in Franklin, Ohio, is a leading provider of medical simulation training equipment, specializing in simulators for laparoscopic surgery, transoral procedures, and ECMO training.
3T Competence: specializes in developing high-quality nursing skills trainers designed to enhance healthcare education and patient safety through practical simulation solutions.
AIBODY: delivers AI-driven digital physiology simulation through a cloud-based platform supporting medical education and clinical training.
Anatomage: is among the market leaders in medical simulation virtualization technology. For more than a decade Anatomage has been developing advanced 3D anatomy products rendering hardware and software for both healthcare simulation in education and professional application.
BioMed Simulation: (BMS) mission is to improve clinician performance through patient-free clinical simulation.
Center for Medical Simulation: based in Boston and affiliated with Harvard Medical School, is a leading institution dedicated to advancing healthcare education, training, and patient safety through high-quality simulation methodologies.
DDx by Sketchy: is an innovative medical education platform that enhances clinical reasoning through AI-driven case simulations, allowing students to engage in realistic patient encounters within a controlled environment.
eTrainETC, LLC: based in Sarasota, Florida, specializes in cloud-based microlearning simulations designed to enhance healthcare education, clinical training, and patient safety.
Exonicus: delivers advanced XR trauma training to prepare military, medical, and emergency personnel for high-stress, life-threatening situations.
Gener8 Healthcare: based in the United Kingdom, specializes in immersive simulation solutions that enhance clinical education and training through interactive technologies.
Genius Academy: specializes in AI-driven mental health simulations, offering immersive training tools that enhance healthcare education and professional preparation.
GTSimulators: is a U.S. company supplying medical simulation products, including high-fidelity patient simulators, anatomical models, and CPR training manikins, to enhance healthcare education and training.
HealthCare Video Systems: (HVS Systems) based in Boulogne-Billancourt, France, specializes in advanced web-based interfaces that optimize medical simulation training, recording, and debriefing.
Immersive Interactive: based in the United Kingdom, specializes in creating multisensory environments that enhance healthcare simulation, education, and training through interactive technology.
IngMar Medical: based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, specializes in advanced respiratory simulation technologies, providing high-fidelity simulators like the ASL 5000 Breathing Simulator and Aurora Manikin to enhance clinical education and training.
Innosonian: is a market-leading company specialising in resuscitation manikins for effective CPR training.
Intulect: is a nurse-founded company redefining how nursing education delivers competency-based training through immersive, AI-facilitated VR and PC simulations.
iSimulate: is a clinical education technology company with offices in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand.
KbPort LLC: is a technology solutions provider serving multiple markets with core objectives in the medical simulation space.
Ventriloscope: is a medical device company that manufactured one of the first healthcare simulation stethoscopes in 2008.
Limbs & Things: is a leading healthcare simulation manufacturer committed to improving patient outcomes by facilitating realistic learning experiences.
Lumeto: is a software development company that was founded in 2021 to enable the future of work through an advanced XR simulation, training, and skills assessment platform named Involve XR.
Magic Ultrasound: based in Guangzhou, China, specializes in developing high-fidelity ultrasound training simulators to enhance medical education and clinical training.
MedAffinity: is an electronic health records software company headquartered in Tallahassee, Florida. Founded in 2005, the company software is designed with a specific interface that looks, acts, and feels like a real document to make the record-keeping process seem as natural as possible.
Medical-X: is an innovative scientific company that designs, develops, manufactures, markets, and distributes medical simulation products for teaching and training.
MedicFX: specialises in high-quality, anatomically accurate silicone models designed to enhance realism in healthcare simulation, supporting improved clinical education and patient safety.
MediView: based in Cleveland, Ohio, is transforming healthcare with augmented reality (AR) solutions that enhance medical imaging, surgical navigation, and patient care.
MGH Institute of Health Professions: based in Boston, Massachusetts, is a leading graduate school specializing in healthcare education with a strong focus on interprofessional learning.
MedVision: is an innovative and fast-growing Japanese company that specializes in designing and manufacturing high-fidelity medical simulators.
Neosim: Founded by Swiss clinical experts with a strong background in lung physiology and mechanical ventilation, neosim was built on the principles of developing simulators that have autonomous physiology.
North American Rescue: specializes in developing advanced medical simulation technologies to enhance healthcare education, training, and patient safety, with a focus on tactical training solutions for military, law enforcement, and emergency medical services.
Northwestern Simulation: Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine has developed valuable resources and programs for healthcare simulation professionals.
OrchestrateXR: is an immersive learning platform that helps healthcare organizations create, deploy, and scale simulation without technical barriers.
Panckoo Inc: based in Qingdao, China, is a leading provider of realistic and affordable medical simulation trainers designed to enhance clinical education and patient safety.
PCS.ai: (Patient Communication Simulators) is a healthcare simulation company founded in 2016, specializing in AI-driven training tools that enhance clinical skills education.
Pedi-Ed-Trics Emergency Medical Solutions: is one of the largest companies dedicated to pediatric emergency education in the United States.
Polhemus: is a 3D motion-tracking technology company that delivers six degrees of freedom motion measurement systems, digitizing products, eye-tracking systems, and handheld 3D laser scanners, which are all commonly used in medical simulation systems.
Realflesh Masks: Masques RFM, based in France, offers high-fidelity patient simulators designed to enhance healthcare education and training.
SIMStation: is a global leader in AV and assessment systems for simulation and training centers. With a highly adaptable approach, SIMStation offers user-friendly software for live control, recording, and transmitting healthcare simulations.
SimServe by 3AM Technologies: provides customizable and affordable medication dispensing and administration systems without monthly subscriptions.
The Apprentice Doctor: provides aspiring medical professionals with essential simulation training kits, online courses, and hands-on training events to enhance healthcare education and patient safety.
The Chamberlain Group (TCG): designs and manufactures high-fidelity surgical simulation models that bring unparalleled realism to medical education and training.
Xiamen Cube Magic 3D Technology:based in Xiamen, China, is a leading provider of VR, AR, and MR-based healthcare simulation solutions designed to enhance medical education and training.
SimConverse: is a simulation platform that uses generative AI to play the role of any patient, colleague, or casualty.
Simuhealth: is a platform that helps simulation centers run more efficiently. Help your clinical simulation program prevent double bookings, streamline compliance and cut coordination overhead.
Sim U Suit Inc.: based in Bountiful, Utah, specializes in obesity simulation suits, edema leggings, and arm sleeves to enhance the realism of bariatric patient care training.
Skillqube Training: is a healthcare simulation training solutions company headquartered in Wiesloch, Germany. Founded in 2013, the company develops holistic simulation and training solutions for use across clinical and preclinical care.
SonoSim: is an integrated ultrasound training solution that offers engaging didactic courses, hands-on training, and knowledge assessments.
Stratasys: is a 3D printing and additive manufacturing company that is headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, and Rehovot, Israel. For over 30 years, the company has been pioneering the future of office-based rapid prototyping and direct digital manufacturing solutions through the development of 3D printers and 3D production systems.
SurgMate: based in New Taipei City, Taiwan, specializes in high-fidelity medical simulators designed to enhance hands-on training for healthcare professionals.
SurgiReal Products Inc: based in Loveland, Colorado, specializes in developing realistic, reusable surgical training tools designed to enhance medical education and patient safety.
SynDaver Labs: is a medical simulation manufacturing company that designs and builds experimentally validated synthetic human tissues, body parts, and human bodies for the purposes of medical education.
TrueClot: bleeding control training products provide unprecedented realism for all levels of training from beginner civilian Stop the Bleed courses to advanced Tactical Emergency and Combat Casualty Care (TECC and TCCC) for EMS and military first responders.
Tobii Pro: is a global leader in eye-tracking technology, offering innovative solutions that enhance clinical education, training, and patient safety.
Virtamed: is a healthcare simulation company headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, that offers simulators for medical training and education.
Vcom3D: a woman-owned small business based in Orlando, develops immersive medical simulation and training systems that enhance healthcare education, training, and patient safety.
Vantari VR: an Australia-based leader in virtual reality healthcare training, provides an immersive platform for clinicians, nurses, and students to practice life-saving procedures in a risk-free environment.
VRPatients: is a physiologically based clinical simulation training platform that immerses a healthcare provider or first responder into actual case scenarios.
United Tissue Network: (UTN) is a nonprofit organization based in Phoenix, Arizona, dedicated to whole-body donation for medical education and research. The organization provides essential services such as human tissue provision, low-cost cremation, and accredited non-transplant tissue banking, supporting the advancement of medical science.
Wallcur: is a simulated medications and practi-products company that specializes in healthcare simulation training and education.
Carrie Gigray MSHS, CHSE, CHSOS, NRP provides a final wrap on IMSH 2026 below:
Michael S. Gordon Center Lecture on Medical Education: Shawn Kanungo
Shawn Kanungo brought high energy and unique perspectives as an innovative expert. Through the intersection of technology, creativity and business, Shawnโs approach challenged us to embrace unexpected approaches to innovation. He showed how artificial intelligence (AI) ride is changing to an agenetic revolution which we should not be afraid of.
Key Takeaways from Shawn include:
- Are you asking the bold questions?
- The most dangerous skill in the world is coming up with an idea.
- Consider society was fearful of many new things throughout history including bikes, telephones, radio waves, and television.
- Reminded us the founder of simulation (Dr. Michael Gordon) stated skills should be engineered, not left to randomness.
- AI agents will do jobs that humans could never do, especially with data analytics
- Data will be the new competitive data.
- AI teaching capabilities allow us to do any job with minimal expenditure.
- The new story is boldness is power, not knowledge.
- Challenge: Embrace AI in one year by 2027, a little bite at a time.
Concurrent Session: Bridging the Gap: Collaborative Strategies for Authentic Patient Population Representation in Healthcare Simulation
An authentic representation of diverse patient populations is imperative for all healthcare simulation programs. This session was facilitated by Remy Roe, Wes Cayabyab, Eric Blake, Amy Chow, and Kellie Bryant in a robust conversation on how to ensure simulationists create realistic scenarios, manikins, and standardized patient encounters that reflect real-world patient differences.
Emphasizing realism and focus on patient safety outcomes, this panel recommends looking beyond appearance to be more inclusive to ensure minoritized individuals are represented in healthcare simulation programs. Suggestions include starting by collecting clinical site data and having open discussions with community members to help understand the gap in clinical training. Next, by analyzing current scenarios and outlining diversity traits such as ethnicity, race, sexual identity, language, age, and abilities, simulationists can create visuals of the patients they present to learners. Finally, they should collaborate with relevant subject matter experts outside clinical fields, such as leaders from LGBTQ, ableist, or other community organizations. This structured method enables healthcare simulationists to follow evidence-based practices and ensure patient care reflects real community and global populations.
View the HealthySimulation.com Webinar Innovative Sim Wars: Enhancing Patient Safety Culture Through Edutainment to learn more!
SSH Presidential Citation & Gavel Awards
Each year, the SSH President selects individuals and groups that deserve recognition. This year, Jared Kutzin, SSH President, has selected the following recipients:
- Pier Luigi Ingrassia
- Allison Perry
- Marie Gilbert
- Judy Larson
- Marie Gilbert
- Berry Issenburg (Gavel Award)
Other SSH Simulation Awards
Early Career Mentored Research Award was awarded to Jaqueline Hanna for Quantifying Mental Workload with Various Training Strategies for Central Venous Catheter Placement. This award recognizes outstanding early-career researchers.
SSH Discovery Award is to further fund up to $30,000 to the experienced healthcare simulation researcher. The 2026 award was granted to Jennifer Allegro for the Just in Time AI Chatbot Training to Enhance Specialists in Poisoning Information Responses to Challenging Caller Interactions: A Randomized Control Trial.
Research Abstract included:
- Student Award: Mental Health โLife Supportโ Establishing a simulation based suicide prevention communication training in an urban pediatric residency program, by Eesha Farooqi
- 2nd Place: Enhancing Call Centre Response to Adult High-Risk Callers: Evaluation Simulation-Based Training for Poison Centre Specialists. Jennifer Allegro, Allison Davis, Kaspars Mikelsteins, Jabeen Fayyaz, and Catherine Walsh
- 1st Place: REACHvr: Leveraging Virtual Reality to Prepare Nursing Students for Rural and Underserved Care. Kelly Foltz-Ramos, Bonnie Vest, Clifford Minter.
FIRES or the Future Innovators in Research, Education and Simulation winner manuscript Checking the Pulse: Assessing the Use of Simulation in OB/GYN Resident Education by Erin Higgins will be published as a short paper in Simulation in Healthcare.
View the new HealthySimulation.com Community AI in Healthcare Simulation Group to discuss this topic with your Global Healthcare Simulation peers!
Closing Plenary Session with Liz Bohannon
Liz Bohannon is a nationally recognized speaker that understands a person will probably not find their village. However, we can build our village. She emphasizes designing workplaces that elevate connection and authentic community as the fastest path to collaboration, fulfillment and impact, and the heart of The Community Quotient. Community Quotient is a dynamic and refreshing perspective that disrupts conventional thinking on organizational design. Through the rule of three, leaders and teams can ask transformational questions about strategic direction and vision and the team development and performance domain.
Key Takeaways:
- Comparison is the thief of happiness; celebrate the small wins.
- The fear of regret should not overshadow trying, even if it means failure.
- The stages of learning are a cyclic process of unconscious incompetence, conscious incompetence, conscious competence, and unconscious competence.
- Give yourself permission to dream small.
- Be married to the problem with an open relationship, focusing on one item of friction.
- Perfect is the enemy of good enough.
- Pluck-ups require spirit and courage.
Concurrent Session: Engaging Learners in Distance Debriefing: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
Although distance healthcare simulation was on the rise, the 2020 pandemic accelerated its adoption, highlighting the need for educational guidelines. This session highlighted the research work of Cynthia Mosher, Alex Morton and Janice Palaganas which ultimately created the Distance Simulation Collaboration (DSC) and published Healthcare Distance Simulation Educator Guidelines in 2023. Co-facilitated by Cynthia Mosher, Sarah Nevielle and others, this group provided the four research paper results and recommendations.
Through a unique interactive simulation event, participants played a game of debriefing BINGO to identify the various facilitator and participant behaviors, including engagement level, body language, psychological safety practices, and environment. The first three winners received a prize. Next, through collaborative small-group discussion, the groups determined appropriate prebrief and debriefing standards of engagement. Each group shared the top discussion points of engagement rules for both learners and facilitators.
2026 SSH President Aaron Calhoun
Aaron Calhoun, MD, FSSH, assumes the leadership role in SSH as the 2026 President. He states, โI see a lot of collaboration and global unity in our community, and thatโs something I want to both encourage and keep pushing forward as we move into the future.โ Aaron mentions collaboration in different ways and aspects of SSH and the national and international simulation community. Another area is the explosive growth of AI in the effective, rational, and safe use of the technology. His number one priority is the enhancement of international engagement for healthcare simulation.
IMSH 2027
Mark your calendars! IMSH 2027 will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, from January 23 – 27, 2027, at the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, for the last time. The 2027 co-planning committee of Dawn Schocken, Tom LeMaster, and Whitney Smith announced the theme will be โIn Concert.โ
Donโt forget to check out all the HealthySimulation.com articles covering the IMSH 2026 event:
