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The Combination Of Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality And AI: Creating A Loop Of Data For The Healthcare Industry

Frost & Sullivan predicted that in the next four years 45% of operating rooms will be using artificial intelligence and virtual reality. We are seeing virtual reality making this entrance now in various settings like dentist offices to relieve patients of anxiety and pain from routine to complicated procedures, to being used for chemotherapy patients, childbirth, and throughout the rehabilitation process. The reason virtual reality is so effective for the patient is that it creates a 360-degree world that can distract and redirect the patients focus so that they are no longer thinking about the pain/anxiety but rather guided in a virtual world. In effect, VR “tricks” the patient’s mind to believe they are literally in another surrounding.

However, the patient experience is not in a vacuum – in fact one of the benefits of virtual reality incorporated with artificial intelligence is that it provides comprehensive data on the patient. For instance, if a patient is using VR during the rehabilitation process, data will be produced in real-time highlighting how often the patient is doing exercises, how intense the exercise was, and how the patient is benefitting the most from the rehabilitation process. The doctor can see all of the data on their patients right at their office so they can prescribe additional therapy or make any other additional adjustments to the VR environment, depending on the results and data available.

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