How Virtual Reality is Changing The Healthcare Industry
The world of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) is taking the healthcare industry by storm. Crafting real world patient scenarios into a virtual
VR simulation training for medical personnel allows medics to get real-time experience in advance that will give them the foundation they need for better performance in real situations they may face in the field.
Using lightweight virtual reality headsets, trainees can step into fully immersive simulation experiences. They can practice skills in environments that resemble any scenario to help them become truly prepared.
Military medical VR simulations can be customized to cover the scenarios that will be most valuable to combat medics in the field.
Military medics regularly encounter extreme situations that are difficult or impossible to duplicate in traditional simulations. With VR, trainees get the chance to experience an environment and scenario and to work through the best, most effective response.
SimX can create highly customized scenarios that fit the terrain, situations, and conditions that medics will face in the field. Trainings can be created with more than 150 patient models in over 30 environments. Skills available include more than 300 tools and procedures. Covered skills and scenarios include:
SimX partnered with the US Air Force to create the Virtual Advancement of Learning and Operational Readiness (VALOR) program. This program makes medical simulation more comprehensive, flexible, and accessible. The overall goal is to make simulation training iniquitous in both civilian and military medicine.
VALOR’s guiding principle is to enable healthcare workers to train how they fight. Fully immersive training means better retention of skills and better preparation.
VR training provides opportunities to explore scenarios that cannot always be captured in traditional simulations. Mass casualty events, battlefield triage, and severe trauma events can be experienced in VR in a way that is realistic yet safe for participants.
Personnel don wireless VR headsets and find themselves fully immersed in the sorts of scenarios they are likely to find out in the field. They will find themselves in responsive virtual environments that feel like the real thing.
A trainee can practice emergency procedures with virtual patients that provide variable responses. This training provides a more realistic experience than they could have with bulky laptops and drop-down menus. Instead, they move in a virtual environment performing procedures, manipulating tools, and performing just as they would in a real combat situation.
The world of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) is taking the healthcare industry by storm. Crafting real world patient scenarios into a virtual
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