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Metaverse in Healthcare
Metaverse in Healthcare
The Metaverse’s user-immersion aspects are a perfect vehicle to train medical staff.
Here are a few directions the Metaverse is heading for medical training:
Simulation training, such as
trainees getting up -a close view surgeon’s procedure enhanced the tactile, haptic controls
Exams can be verified from video recordings of practice procedures
Interactive training modules enhance learning key concepts where, for example, VR can take a learner within the human body and provide a 360° view of a patient’s ailment.
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Doctors and nurses have found that they can more quickly and efficiently diagnose many minor conditions that make up most of their caseload via a telephone or video call.
This will undoubtedly persist in the metaverse.
However, virtual reality – is a critical technology that enables the next-level immersion that partly qualifies a platform or application as part of the metaverse.
It opens a whole new range of possibilities.
Anyone who has tried it will know that headset-based VR experiences convey a far greater sense of “being there” than other virtual environments, such as websites, messaging apps, or social media.
4. Blockchain Technology
Known to most as the technology that underpins cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.
Blockchains are distributed and encrypted databases.
It allows data stored and transferred securely so that no one except the data owner can tamper with it.
Furthermore, many people consider them an essential part of the metaverse concept.
They allow for decentralised communities governed democratically via smart contracts and a record of digital “ownership” of environments or even objects in the digital domain.
In healthcare, their most obvious use case is managing and securing our precious health data.
5. Convergence
1. Surgical operations
Currently, surgeons use AR, VR, AI, and minimally invasive surgeries to augment patient outcomes.
Leading hospitals and universities use these technologies for surgeries because they give a 3-D view of a patient’s body and help interpret, plan, and perform them.
VR and AR simulation is used for surgical training and is widely used for efficient, safe, and measurable medical training.
However, VR or AR comes with unique technical challenges in healthcare.
These obstacles include creating realistic physical objects and surgical interfaces within a computer-generated space.
VR systems
Representing interactions between items and processing signals for complicated events during surgeries.
Furthermore, mobile VRs offer pocket size immersion because VR systems are limited to specific clinical settings. Resolution of devices and computer specifications are limiting aspects for medical facilities.
These challenges can overcome with the intervention of the metaverse in the healthcare sector.
As it offers space and realistic interaction between doctor-patient, including objects.
Thus, it is easier to explain surgical operations to patients and complications.
2. Mental health
The metaverse raises interesting concerns regarding mental health, such as the following:
Addiction to virtual realities
Harming people suffering from mental disorders such as psychosis, schizophrenia, depression, or anxiety
Revolutionising mental health treatment altogether
4. Interoperability
Conclusion
Finally, the healthcare technology industry is constantly evolving due to innovations in the medical space.
After the metaverse is a promising technology and holds lucrative opportunities in the medical field.
In addition, this can address specific issues such as mental health, access to health without geographical limitations, virtual wellness and fitness, and just connecting with people.
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