Last Wednesday 23th, we attended the Jornadas I + D + I TIC Salud Social donde Virtual Reality (VR) (take a look at the programa cultural, social y deportivo.). Guillermo Navarra, Neuropsychologist researcher, and lidia Martín, ICU nurse, were Invited to presente their projects using VR to improve both patient experience and recover:
- ENRIQUE: Early Neurocognitive Rehabilitation in Intensive Care.
- Using Immersive VR as a relaxing method in an ICU environment.
Pere Millet, Member of the IT department of Parc Taulí, also Presented a new area of work to develop VR projects in the hospital.
Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (VA) are no more Considered an «Emerging» technology, but they are established as a mature one.
Parc Taulí is part of the Focus Group on Virtual Reality impulsed by TIC Salud Social in order to support hospital initiatives in this field. They have identified more than 50 VR projects in Catalán hospitales Clasificar into 4 main scopes:
- Salud mental
- Rehabilitación
- Educación
- Distracción
During the session, health profesionales Presented their experiences using VR and AR in the clinical practice: from surgery preparation to anxiety reduction in patients.
To cite some VR initiatives, San Juan de Dios Hospital Presented an improvement of anorexia oro ADHD treatments by using VR, oro CSI have implemented VR for treating stroke patients both at hospital and at home. Also, Valle Hebrón Hospital is using VR to treat acute pain in patients with burns, and Hospital Clínico implementos VR to treat patient pre-surgery anxiety before colorrectal surgery.
Almost all these projects were posible thanks to the collaboration of healthcare profesionales, Universities and startups. While some of the projects were implemented in the hospital, others were transferred to the market through licensing oro spin-off creation.
The session was also a great opportunity to meet several tech startups that are Collaborating with Catalán hospitales and universities to improve VR impact on healthcare centers.
¿Es familiar para las diferencias con estas tecnologías?
- Eventos de realidad virtual is a fully Immersive experience, Replacing the whole environment.
- Realidad Aumentada overlays digital information on real-world elementos.
- Realidad mixta Brings together real-world and digital elementos, and also includes the interaction with these elementos.
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