NIH awards $2.8M to expand HoloBaby™, our neonatal simulation partnership with MaineHealth

The National Institutes of Health has awarded our longtime partner MaineHealth a four-year, $2.8 million grant to continue developing HoloBaby™, the mixed reality neonatal resuscitation simulator built by clinicians at MaineHealth Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital together with the Interactive Commons at CWRU. The award, announced by MaineHealth in September 2025, comes from the National Institute…

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HoloBaby™ Software Featured by Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals

July 31, 2023 | By Kara Jacques “ZIP code should not determine outcome.” – Dr. Michael Ferguson, Pediatric Critical Care ‘HoloBaby’ is a mixed-reality simulator. Wearing HoloLens goggles, care team members train on a realistic neonate hologram projected onto a basic manikin to enable neonatal resuscitation training… Read the full article here: MAKING AN IMPACT –…

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HoloBaby™ Study published for 2023 Pediatric Academy Societies meeting

As part of the Medical Education: Simulation and Technology theme for the 2023 Pediatric Academy Societies meeting, collaborator Mary Ottolini, MD, MPH, MEd published a pilot study on experts’ reactions to the HoloBaby™ Simulation Framework for neonatal resuscitation simulation training. Read the full study here: “Expert Neonatal Resuscitation Teams’ Perceptions and Experiences of Mixed Reality…

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HoloBaby™ Project Announced between CWRU’s IC and MaineHealth Innovation

An innovative medical solution to a dearth of quality simulation opportunities for neonatal care is being piloted by physicians from MaineHealth’s Innovation Center and Case Western Reserve University’s Interactive Commons: Michael Ferguson, MD, MTeachPediatric IntensivistThe Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital at Maine Medical Center Mary Ottolini, MD, MPH, MEdGeorge W. Hallett, MD Chair of PediatricsThe Barbara…

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