How Virtual Reality using in healthcare industry?

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One of the advantages of this technology is that it allows healthcare professionals to learn new skills as well as refreshing existing ones in a safe environment. Plus it allows this without causing any danger to the patients. Here are a few of them. Virtual reality is much more than just a new form of entertainment, it is increasingly being used in a wide range of medical applications, from treatments to training.

Virtual Reality for healthcare

  • Training doctors and nurses
  • Pain management
  • Physical therapy
  • Fears and phobias
  • Cognitive rehabilitation

An example is the heart catheterization simulation available in UC Davis Center for Virtual Care. Cardiologists find it easy to perform on a mannequin named “Samantha” that provides a realistic experience, completely risk-free.

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Actually, Sharecare:You is a free VR program that actually seems pretty in-depth if you would like to try it. It’s helpful for learning, but again it’s more of a spectator program than something where you are directly interacting with the body. I will be excited to see full-out simulation softwares in the next few years, often nurses are taught with mechanical dummy’s. However for now I will stick to surgeon simulator!