Virtual Reality
Peter Suderman, Reason
“It’s hard to imagine a better environment in which to test a government-run health information technology system than Britain’s National Health Service. The system is fully socialized, with a single government payer, universal enrollment, and doctors employed directly by the state. There are roughly 60 million beneficiaries, which is big enough to see if the system can scale, but perhaps not so big that it’s sure to be overwhelming.
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5 February 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News, UK EHR | Country: UK | EHR: EHR, EHR UK | Tag(s): Virtual Reality
News.com.au
“Doctors in Canada are designing a virtual world where they hope to one day treat traumatised children with colourful avatars using toy-like medical gadgets.
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3 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Canada | Tag(s): Avatar, Children, Virtual Reality
Apiscam
“Andalucía exportará su software de simulación 3D a otras unidades de cirugía y más especialidades médicas. La herramienta de realidad virtual VirSSPA, que a partir de ahora se llamará Ayra, ha sido licenciada para su explotación por parte de la empresa Ikiria, que permitirá comercializarlo a otros hospitales y otras clínicas, incluso de otras comunidades y países.
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19 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Spain | Tag(s): 3D, Simulation, Software, Virtual Reality
Jesús de la Gándara, El Mundo
“Antiguamente podíamos hacer esto ante un espejo. Y si era mágico, como los venecianos de Guido Forlani, podíamos usarlos para cambiar nuestra imagen o adivinar el futuro. Ahora ya tenemos esos espejos, son virtuales, cibernéticos, como nuestro ordenador, con el cual podemos interaccionar de múltiples formas. Veamos una de ellas:
Hágase a si mism@ una fotografía digital.
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10 August 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tag(s): Mental Health, Virtual Reality
Ann Tracy Mueller, Health Care Communication
“Being a teenaged girl is hard enough. Add diabetes to the mix and imagine the emotions at play. A winning designer in the DiabetesMine annual Design Challenge wants to make diabetes management easier for these young people.
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22 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Diabetes, Teenagers, Virtual Reality
Kurillo G et al, Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 18 - NextMed, 2011
We present work in progress on a tele-immersion system for telerehabilitation using real-time stereo vision and virtual environments. Stereo reconstruction is used to capture user’s 3D avatar in real time and project it into a shared virtual environment, enabling a patient and therapist to interact remotely.
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22 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Tag(s): 3D, Avatar, Telemedicine, Telerehabilitation, Virtual Reality
Riva G et al, Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 18 - NextMed, 2011
Since the European funded project VREPAR–Virtual Reality in Neuro-Psycho-Physiology (1995)–different European research activities have been using virtual reality and advanced information and communication technologies to improve the quality of care in the treatment of many different mental health disorders including anxiety disorders, eating disorders and obesity. Now the European Commission funding is shifting from the traditional hospital-centred and reactive healthcare delivery model toward a person-centred and preventive one.
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22 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Europe | Tag(s): Mental Health, Patient Centric, Personal Health Systems, Preventive Care, Virtual Reality
Rizzo AA et al, An intelligent virtual human system for providing healthcare information and support, 2011
Over the last 15 years, a virtual revolution has taken place in the use of Virtual Reality simulation technology for clinical purposes. Shifts in the social and scientific landscape have now set the stage for the next major movement in Clinical Virtual Reality with the “birth” of intelligent virtual humans. Seminal research and development has appeared in the creation of highly interactive, artificially intelligent and natural language capable virtual human agents that can engage real human users in a credible fashion. No longer at the level of a prop to add context or minimal faux interaction in a virtual world, virtual humans can be designed to perceive and act in a 3D virtual world, engage in spoken dialogues with real users and can be capable of exhibiting human-like emotional reactions.
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22 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | Tag(s): Artificial Intelligence, Simulation, Virtual Reality
Natasha Allen, Reuter
“Virtual reality isn’t just fun for kids — it might also be able to help many stroke patients on their way to recovery, hints a Canadian summary of the research on the technology.
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5 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): games, Stroke, Virtual Reality
John Farrell, The Mobility Blog
“New research finds that virtual reality (VR) and other video games could improve stroke patients’ recovery. According to research reported in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association, the games led to significant improvement in arm strength following stroke and could provide an affordable, enjoyable and effective way to intensify treatment.
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12 April 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): games, Stroke, Virtual Reality
Kate Taylor, Innovations Report
“New research shows using virtual reality games for treatment in stroke survivors increases upper-arm motor function.
Virtual reality and other video games can significantly improve motor function in stroke patients, according to research from St. Michael’s Hospital.
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9 April 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): games, Stroke, Virtual Reality
Saposnik G, Levin M. Stroke, 2011
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:
Approximately two thirds of stroke survivors continue to experience motor deficits of the arm resulting in diminished quality of life. Conventional rehabilitation provides modest and sometimes delayed effects. Virtual reality (VR) technology is a novel adjunctive therapy that could be applied in neurorehabilitation. We performed a meta-analysis to determine the added benefit of VR technology on arm motor recovery after stroke.
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9 April 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Tag(s): games, Rehabilitation, Stroke, Virtual Reality
Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“Medical visualization software that allows multiple physicians to consult on a patient’s condition is one of the key areas of growth for virtual reality (VR) technologies in healthcare, according to a new report from Kalorama Information.
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16 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Virtual Reality, visualisation
Ken Terry, FierceHealthIT
“Virtual reality is big business in healthcare. The market for products that rely on virtual reality (VR)–including robot-assisted surgery, medical data visualization, education and training, and rehabilitation and therapy–was worth $670 million in 2010, according to a Kalorama Information report.
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14 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Education, Rehabilitation, Surgery, Virtual Reality
Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“Once representing a niche market of specialty applications, virtual reality (VR) has been integrated into a broad portfolio of healthcare activities, including clinical IT systems, operating rooms, schools of medicine and treatment programs for returning U.S. soldiers, according to Kalorama Information’s recent report Virtual Reality (VR) in Healthcare in the U.S.
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7 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Virtual Reality
BBC News
“Burn patients in the US are being helped to escape the pain of burn injuries by immersing them in the virtual reality of a computer game during treatment.
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31 January 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): games, Pain Therapy, Virtual Reality
ScienceBlog
“For millions of enthusiasts worldwide, visiting the virtual world Second Life® on the Internet is simply entertainment.
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9 November 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): disabled, Nurses, Rehabilitation, Virtual Reality
Saposnik G et al, Stroke, 41(7)
Background and Purpose
Hemiparesis resulting in functional limitation of an upper extremity is common among stroke survivors. Although existing evidence suggests that increasing intensity of stroke rehabilitation therapy results in better motor recovery, limited evidence is available on the efficacy of virtual reality for stroke rehabilitation.
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14 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | Tag(s): games, Rehabilitation, Safety, Stroke, Virtual Reality
Rosalía Sierra, Diario Médico
“Ver un cerebro gigantesco desde dentro y en tres dimensiones, tratar el vértigo y la claustrofobia, planificar al milímetro una intervención quirúrgica y reconstruir todos los posibles rostros de una persona a partir de su cráneo son sólo algunas de las aplicaciones que la realidad virtual ha aportado al campo de la medicina, tanto en la clínica como en la docencia y la investigación.
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14 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Spain | Tag(s): Surgery, Virtual Reality
Camille Tuutti, ExecutiveGov
“Cutting-edge virtual reality medical technology will soon be available for patients at the new National Intrepid Center of Excellence, which will hold its ribbon cutting ceremony June 24, according to the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury.
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22 June 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Rehabilitation, Virtual Reality
