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The Patients
- Virtually painless: How some Canadian surgeons are using VR to manage patient painHaving patients wear a virtual reality headset during more minor procedures such as mass removal or hand surgery, has shown a real improvement in patient…
- Lessons on nutrition easy to digest in virtual reality spacesIn virtual reality, a technology that produces a virtual 3D environment for the user, the team created an interactive space where students could have a…
- The Future of Senior Care TechnologySolutions such as smart homes, augmented and virtual reality, and wearables can help providers deliver care to a growing population of older adults. Source: The…
- Hospital Metaverse: Building A Children’s Health Center In VRA trip to the hospital can be an intimidating experience for adult patients in need of care, let alone children. It’s for this exact reason…
- Can VR and AR Help with Phobias?AR and VR are currently being used in a host of real-world medical scenarios. And medical practitioners themselves are increasingly realising the benefits of the…
- Virtual Reality Therapy Could Give Relief to SeniorsWhile studies suggest that traditional reminiscence therapy can significantly improve the well-being of older people, V.R. has the potential to make it more immersive and…
- Inside the Effort to Expand Virtual Reality Treatments for Mental HealthRothbaum and her collaborator, computer scientist Larry Hodges, were set on devising a virtual alternative to traditional exposure therapy, in which therapists help patients confront…
- Virtual Reality Training Improves Balance for Patients With Parkinson DiseaseA recent systematic review and meta-analysis examined the use of VR to improve balance in patients with PD. The authors conducted the study because previous…
- How Virtual Reality Is Expanding Health CareAccording to one study, virtual reality plays an important role in improving doctors’ performance and should be used as a complementary education tool. Laparoscopic surgery,…
- Virtual Reality Turns Games Into TreatmentsJoe O’Connor, 62, who lives near Worcester, Mass., was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease six years ago. Exercise is one of the only things that slows…
The Medical Staff
- Lessons on nutrition easy to digest in virtual reality spacesIn virtual reality, a technology that produces a virtual 3D environment for the user, the team created an interactive space where students could have a…
- UCL Transforms Modern Surgical Training with ARuVR and HTC VIVEClinicians and surgeons taking UCL’s Advanced Minimally-Invasive Surgery (AMIS), MSc programme are undergoing practical-based, innovative, and remote training to gain cutting-edge knowledge and skills in…
- VR Surgery Training Might Be More Effective Than We ThoughtResearchers working out of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland recently conducted a study detailing how VR could be a more effective…
- ‘Hologram patients’ developed to help train doctors and nursesA new partnership involving Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) and the University’s Faculty of Education, brings medical training using ‘mixed reality’ technology one step closer. The…
- Augmented Reality to Enhance the Clinical Eye: The Improvement of ADL Evaluation by Mean of a Sensors Based ObservationThe paper proposes the use of Augmented Reality (AR) in a rehabilitative clinical setting with the purpose of supporting the therapist during the clinical observation…
- Voice-Controlled Augmented Reality Headset Assists Successful SurgeryA voice-enabled augmented reality headset aided a successful shoulder surgery at Scripps Clinic in California, a first in the region. The three-dimensional holographic view of…
- Virtual reality in ophthalmology education: simulating pupil examinationIt has been used with over 250 final year medical students in Queen’s University of Belfast, as part of a session called ‘The Simulated Eye…
- New Center Brings Virtual Reality Research Into FocusThe University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) is the joint recipient of $4.75 million in funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to establish…
- Augmented reality: Is this the future of doctor’s appointments?The BBC Two show Your Body Uncovered with Kate Garraway shows how future technology could blend with medical appointments, but how close are we to…
- Virtual Reality Used to Assess Functional CognitionScientists at King’s College London have developed a cognitive test that enables clinicians to assess the functional cognition of patients by enabling them to complete…
The Healthcare Industries and Hospitals
- Incremed is putting the AR in healthcareBuilding on the skills of its interdisciplinary, Zurich-based team specialised in medical augmented reality (AR) software development, and its collaborations with international medical staff and…
- Project for Futuristic Surgical Training Receives CHF 12 Million in FundingThe Swiss Federal Agency for Innovation Promotion (Innosuisse) is supporting the “PROFICIENCY” project, in which ORamaVR S.A. is a full partner, with a total of…
- New medical society studies how metaverse will change healthcareThe medical community recently inaugurated a society to research how to apply metaverse, a convergence of virtual and physical space, to the healthcare sector.On Thursday,…
- Magic Leap grants healthcare startups access to its new AR headset ahead of mid-2022 releaseAhead of a planned enterprise release later this year, Magic Leap has provided a group of healthcare companies with early access to its second-generation augmented…
- 2022 forecast: AR, VR poised to send medtech into the next dimensionA recent market research report estimated that between 2021 and 2026, the market for virtual reality in healthcare will grow by nearly 35% annually, swelling…
- VR treatment for chronic pain gets FDA authorizationThe Food and Drug Administration authorized a virtual reality system as a prescription treatment for chronic back pain, the agency announced today. The therapy, called…
- AppliedVR scores $36M for virtual reality pain managementAppliedVR, developer of virtual reality therapeutics, has scooped up $36 million in Series B funding months after it closed a Series A round. The Series…
- Fresenius Medical Care uses virtual reality technology to train patients for home dialysisIn peritoneal dialysis, which is used by about 11 percent of the approximately 3.7 million dialysis patients worldwide, the lining of the patient’s abdominal cavity…
- FDA OKs Virtual-Reality Device to Correct Vision Disorder in KidsThe FDA approved the digital therapeutic device Luminopia One for pediatric amblyopia, or lazy eye.The device is approved for children ages 4 to 7 years…
- FDA clears augmented reality smartglasses for guiding knee replacement surgeriesBuilt into a pair of glasses, the newly FDA-cleared Knee+ system uses a camera to help judge the alignment of instruments and the knee joint itself…
Research and meeting
- The Trend of Metaverse and Augmented & Virtual Reality Extending to the Healthcare SystemThe Metaverse is still in its nascent stage and evolving continuously, having a huge potential in health care to combine the technologies of AI, AR/VR,…
- History of virtual reality and augmented reality in neurosurgical trainingKnowledge of the history and conceptual underpinnings of these technologies is useful to understand their current and future applications to neurosurgical training. The technological precursors…
- Augmented Reality to Enhance the Clinical Eye: The Improvement of ADL Evaluation by Mean of a Sensors Based ObservationThe paper proposes the use of Augmented Reality (AR) in a rehabilitative clinical setting with the purpose of supporting the therapist during the clinical observation…
- The Applicability of Virtual Reality-Based Training for Controlling Anger in Aggressive IndividualsThese results indicate that the VR environments can provide an effective means of trainings for managing anger. Therefore, further research on the effectiveness of the…
- The role and effectiveness of augmented reality in patient education: A systematic review of the literatureQuantitative results indicated that the use of AR had a positive effect on knowledge retention and patient satisfaction. Qualitative findings suggested that patients liked the…
- Automated virtual reality therapy to treat agoraphobic avoidance and distress in patients with psychosis (gameChange): a multicentre, parallel-group, single-blind, randomised, controlled trial in England with mediation and moderation analysesAutomated VR therapy led to significant reductions in anxious avoidance of, and distress in, everyday situations compared with usual care alone. The mediation analysis indicated…
- Virtual Reality Training Improves Balance for Patients With Parkinson DiseaseA recent systematic review and meta-analysis examined the use of VR to improve balance in patients with PD. The authors conducted the study because previous…
- Join VRforHealth at Virtual Medicine Conference 2022 March 24-25th. It’s virtual!VRforHealth is very happy to support the Virtual Medicine Conference, organized by Dr Brennan Spiegel, and thanks to which our co-founders Denise Silber and Beth…
- Virtual Reality and Healthcare Global Symposium ’22 – March 3-4, 2022 – NashvilleHow is this conference different from the others? => A strong focus on providing unique contentand perspectives from across the healthcare spectrum. => A strong…
- Effectiveness of Augmented Reality in Stroke Rehabilitation: A Meta-AnalysisAugmented reality (AR)-based rehabilitation shows potential to improve upper and lower limb function after stroke. This study aims to review the effect of AR technology…
“Collateral” news
- Research: Artificial intelligence can fuel racial bias in healthcare, but can mitigate it, tooRegardless of the specific type of AI, these tools are generally capable of making a massive, complex industry run more efficiently. But several studies show…
- Metaverse and virtual reality are gaining a foothold in healthcareThe convergence of technologies – such as virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) – is reshaping human experiences in new and innovative…
- Can VR and AR Help with Phobias?In line with Mental Health Awareness Month this May, we’re doing a series of articles looking at the relationship between the technologies we cover and…
- The Next Frontier For Healthcare: Blockchain, AR and VRThe medical industry has traditionally been slow to adopt new technologies, but blockchain, augmented reality and virtual reality technologies are changing that thought process. Source:…
- How The Metaverse Could (Or Could Not) Transform HealthcareHowever, this is different from the concept of the metaverse. In the latter, instead of using a VR headset only for therapy, one would meet…
- Traversing the Healthcare MetaverseThe COVID-19 pandemic ushered in a new healthcare consumer conditioned to home delivery of medicines and receiving healthcare online through telehealth visits (including Medicare recipients).…
- 7 Futuristic Professions In Healthcare You Can Still Prepare ForIf you’re among the thousands of medical students worldwide or are about to pursue a degree in healthcare, it might have dawned on you that…
- FDA Authorizes Marketing of First Device that Uses Artificial Intelligence to Help Detect Potential Signs of Colon CancerEven if it’s not directly related to immersive technologies, it’s interesting to see that FDA authorized marketing of a new tool which combines hardware with…
- Balancing Virtual and In-Person Health CareWe believe a cleaner approach is dedicated sessions of all in-person or all virtual care where the practice setting can be optimized. When offering virtual…
- Digital Health In Plastic Surgery And CosmeticsWhen it comes to reconstructive and aesthetic procedures, it might prove challenging to visualize the end results on the actual patient. However, with AR technology,…
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