Editors James D. Westwood, Susan W. Westwood, Li Felländer –Tsai, Cali M. Fidopiastis, Randy S. Haluck, Richard A. Robb, Steven Senger, and Kirby G. Vosburgh present readers with a collection of papers taken from research presented at the twenty-first NextMed/MMVR conference held in February of 2014 in California. The conference is a multidisciplinary event that brings together students, educators, military personnel, researchers, engineers, scientists, and healthcare futurists to work on driving patient care and medical education into a more precise and efficient future. This collection features papers on robotics, haptics, modeling, medical simulation, and many other diverse healthcare-related subjects. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)