Virtual Reality News and Resources for Healthcare

VR therapy mitigates pain for hospitalized cancer patients

April 16, 2024 - Virtual reality (VR) provided significantly more pain relief to hospitalized cancer patients than a two-dimensional guided imagery experience, according to a new study. Published in Cancer, the American Cancer Society (ACS) journal, the study assessed whether VR can alleviate acute and chronic pain among hospitalized cancer patients. According to...

What is Virtual Reality and its Healthcare Use Cases?

March 01, 2024 by Anuja Vaidya

With the advancements in digital healthcare, various tools are now being used to provide healthcare services and support the patient care journey. These include tools typically used in other industries, such as smartphones, cloud storage...

Using VR to Create an Immersive Mental Health Support System

February 20, 2024 by Anuja Vaidya

Virtual reality (VR) technologies offer exciting new promises for healthcare delivery, particularly in the mental health arena. With advances in generative artificial intelligence (AI), natural language processing, and computer vision,...

‘Getting Heads in Headsets’: Exploring Virtual Reality Use in the VA

November 15, 2023 by Anuja Vaidya

Virtual reality (VR), though initially relegated to the world of gaming, is increasingly being applied in healthcare. Healthcare research and provider organizations nationwide are actively exploring the use of VR technologies in various...

How Virtual Reality Can Help Tackle ‘Scanxiety’ Among Cancer Patients

November 08, 2023 by Anuja Vaidya

The cancer patient journey is fraught with challenges — physical, financial, and emotional. Managing the emotional toll of cancer care is especially hard as, more often than not, it is not immediately clear if therapy has worked and...

Using Healthcare VR Technology to Improve Pain Management

November 06, 2023 by Anuja Vaidya

Amid the ongoing digital transformation of healthcare, stakeholders are exploring the potential utility of various advanced technologies in patient care. These advanced technologies include artificial intelligence, blockchain, and virtual...

Virtual Reality Helps Alleviate Pain Among Burn Injury Patients

October 05, 2023 by Anuja Vaidya

Virtual reality (VR) technologies are effective in distracting burn injury patients from pain, according to recent research published in PLOS Digital Health. United States burn centers commonly rely...

Why an Orthopedic Clinic Opened a Virtual Practice in the Metaverse

September 20, 2023 by Anuja Vaidya

As demand for convenient digital access to healthcare services grows among United States consumers, provider organizations are leveraging numerous tools to bolster their digital healthcare offerings. From online scheduling to virtual...

Texas Researchers Use VR Technology to Measure Brain Activity

August 17, 2023 by Anuja Vaidya

Researchers at the University of Texas Austin (UT Austin) have modified a commercial virtual reality (VR) headset, using it to measure brain activity and better understand how humans react to stressors...

Exploring Tools for Virtual Behavioral Healthcare

August 07, 2023 by Anuja Vaidya

Though the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) has been officially declared over, people worldwide are still dealing with the life-changing repercussions of the pandemic. This includes grappling with an ongoing mental health...

Key Technologies in the Digital Therapeutics Arena

July 31, 2023 by Anuja Vaidya

Amid the ongoing digitization of healthcare, digital therapeutics (DTx) have gained popularity, with providers and payers increasingly offering these software-based therapies to patients. According to the Digital Therapeutics Alliance,...

XRHealth Merges with Amelia Virtual Care to Address Mental Health

April 25, 2023 by Mark Melchionna

XRHealth recently merged with Amelia Virtual Care to create an extended reality (XR) Therapeutics Platform through the combination of virtual and augmented reality technology and flexible virtual...

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