virtual reality
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MedCity Influencers, Health Tech
How the Nursing Educator Shortage Has Created a Tipping Point for Virtual Reality Simulations
Immersive scenarios in VR allow nursing education programs to enhance and scale the hands-on experiences they provide learners for developing and practicing critical skills.
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Brain Patterns, Physiological Metrics Show VR’s Ability To Reduce Chronic Pain In New Research
AppliedVR released study results demonstrating VR’s ability to help patients suffering from chronic low back pain. The technology was able to increase participants’ brain coherence and help them achieve a slower breathing rate — two metrics associated with reduced pain.
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MedCity Influencers, Health Tech
5 Ways To Make a Business Case for Virtual Reality in Healthcare
Virtual reality reduces the cost of training while also improving learning efficiency and knowledge retention. It’s not just universities and medical students that are embracing VR technology for learning. I travel all over the world to work with healthcare teams implementing VR and have observed, that a growing number of hospitals are using it for continuing education.
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XRHealth Raises $6M for At-Home VR Therapy
XRHealth’s $6 million in funding was led by Asabys Partners and included participation from NOVA Prime Fund. The company will use the funding to support its recent merger with Amelia Virtual Care.
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Developing Nursing Clinical Judgment Competency Through Virtual Reality
When real-life failure is not an option, practicing curated, trial-and-error simulations in VR can reduce patient risk in high-acuity scenarios. With nursing faculty also in short supply and a wave rapidly approaching retirement age, virtual reality simulations can help bridge the gap between learners needing supervised clinical experiences, and time-pressed preceptors, who have their own patients to care for in addition to guiding novices in clinical settings.
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Devices & Diagnostics, Health Tech
VR Can Alleviate Brain Tumor Patients’ Anxiety During Treatment, Study Finds
AppliedVR teamed up with the National Cancer Institute to study the feasibility of VR to alleviate anxiety in brain tumor patients undergoing imaging scans. The research partners recently announced interim analysis results from their clinical study — they said that not only would VR intervention be a feasible option to reduce patients’ anxiety, but that patients would report high satisfaction levels as well.
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AppliedVR Earns First Unique CMS Code Ever Granted to a Digital Therapeutic
CMS recently established a unique code for AppliedVR’s flagship product, marking the first time a digital therapeutic or immersive therapeutic has ever been placed in an existing benefit category. The eight-week program is a physician-prescribed solution that allows patients to manage their chronic lower back pain without opioids from the comfort of their own home.
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Devices & Diagnostics, Health Tech
BehaVR and OxfordVR Merge, Secure $13M in Funding
BehaVR offers care for anxiety, mental wellness, pain management and maternal health, while OxfordVR is primarily focused on serious mental illness, such as PTSD, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Through the merger, OxfordVR’s products will join BehaVR’s platform, providing services for a whole range of mental health conditions.
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MedCity Influencers, Health Tech
Here’s How Skilled Nursing Facilities Can Use Virtual Reality Too
It may take some time to introduce VR into your skilled nursing facility, but it will be worth it for the physical, mental, and social benefit of your residents.
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Trayt Health Seeks to Increase Access to Diagnoses and Treatments
CEO Malekeh Amini explains how Trayt Health can bridge the gap for patients seeking neurological care.
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Why VR could be the new dawn of pain, anxiety management
Experts think virtual reality (VR) can help address the country’s rising levels of pain and anxiety. By flooding the brain with positive signals, VR experiences can act as a drug-free alternative to pain and mental health management — and hospitals across the nation are deploying the technology.
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FundamentalVR rakes in $20M for its VR, haptics platform
FundamentalVR, a startup that sells virtual reality and haptic software for medical simulation, recently closed a $20 million Series B funding round. The company will use the funds to invest in Fundamental Surgery, its platform that recreate the sights, sounds and sensations that surgeons experience during medical procedures.
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UK startup hopes FDA nod speeds up adoption of VR therapy
The breakthrough device designation for Oxford VR follows a clinical trial that demonstrated the effectiveness of its VR therapy.
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Metaverse in healthcare
Dr. Mona Flores, Global Head of Medical AI at Nvidia, will deliver the keynote talk kicking off the MedCity INVEST Digital Health conference, scheduled for Wednesday, September 28, in Dallas and presented in collaboration with Health Wildcatters. Register today.
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MedCity Influencers, Health Tech
Why the healthcare industry should experiment with VR in the Covid era
VR adoption is being stifled by the medical field’s scientific mindset, where a raft of clinical trials are first expected before adoption is even considered. This is of course an extremely valid consideration in the operating and treating stages, but can be limiting when over-broadly applied to the entire life cycle of the patient experience.