CNBC July 13, 2024
Key Points
– Health-care workers at the VA are piloting technology and simulating procedures in a $43 million Florida-based facility called SimVET.
– SimVET looks and feels like a real hospital, but no human patients receive care there.
– The building serves as a dedicated space where clinicians can test new ideas without putting people in harm’s way.
– CNBC visited SimVET in March.
Inside a sprawling $43 million Veterans Affairs facility equipped with operating rooms, intensive care units and an outpatient clinic, there are no patients. At least not any real ones.
The 53,000-square-foot building sits minutes away from the Orlando International Airport in Florida, and it’s called the National Center for Simulation Validation, Evaluation and Testing, or...
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