Photo: Mia Novick and Bailey Klusack visit UCHealth to create the hospital room of the future.
DVANCED TECHNOLOGIES HAVE NEARLY LIMITLESS POTENTIAL to change health care delivery, with technologies like artificial intelligence and virtual reality already making significant impacts. As a result, every aspiring nurse, doctor, or health care worker must have a strong grounding in technology. UCHealth is leading health care innovation in Colorado and serves as a major partner in St. Vrain, helping to educate the next generation of healthcare leaders. In 2019, UCHealth and St. Vrain Valley Schools announced a long-term partnership to provide 12
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students with real-world, cutting-edge learning experiences in health care, and for those students to take a leadership role in influencing the health care of the future. Through a year-long design thinking challenge, students from St. Vrain’s high schools will take a deep dive into modern medicine, visiting UCHealth’s new Longs Peak Hospital in Longmont (home to numerous innovative health care technologies), its Virtual Health Center in Aurora, and its Catalyst Health-Tech Innovation facility in Denver. After learning about the medical care of today, students will work with physicians and staff to ideate and prototype the hospital room of the future at
