IMSH 2026 Technology Forum:
Unleashing Potential – Removing Barriers to Technology Integration
January 9-10, 2025 | San Antonio, Texas
Break Barriers. Build Solutions. Advance Simulation.
Join us for the two-day, high-energy, IMSH 2026 Technology Forum: Unleashing Potential – Removing Barriers to Technology Integration. designed to tackle the toughest challenges holding back technology adoption in healthcare simulation.
Through interactive sessions, dynamic breakouts, and cross-discipline collaboration, you’ll team up with fellow educators, operators, administrators, and industry leaders to confront real obstacles like cost, infrastructure, faculty readiness, and system integration, and discover practical ways forward.
Don’t just talk about the future of simulation. Help create it.
SCHEDULE
Friday, January 9
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM General Opening Session
1:30 PM - 1:40 PM Break and Move into Breakout Sessions
1:40 PM – 2:55 PM Breakout Session 1 - Modality & Barriers To Use
2:55 PM – 3:10 PM Attendee Break
3:10 PM – 4:25 PM Breakout Session 2 - User Groups & Barriers To Implementation
4:30 PM – 5:30 PM Closing Session
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM Cocktail Reception with the SSH Board of Directors (Convention Center)
Saturday, January 10
7:30 AM – 8:15 AM Continental Breakfast
8:30 AM – 8:50 AM General Session: Review of Day 1 & Objectives of Day 2
9:00 AM – 10:15 AM Breakout Session 3 - SSH Corporate Roundtable Participation On Barriers Discussed In Day 1
10:15 AM – 10:30 AM Attendee Break
10:30 AM – 12:30 PM General Closing Session: Final Report Out
By the end of the 2-day forum, participants will...
- Collectively identify and categorize the most significant barriers to healthcare simulation technology adoption across modalities, user groups, and institutional contexts.
- Generate a shared body of knowledge, including practical solutions and innovative strategies for overcoming identified barriers to technology
- Produce a post-event white paper or report summarizing identified barriers, stakeholder perspectives and actionable recommendations for improving technology integration in simulation-based education.
