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How Will the Metaverse

Transform Healthcare?
21 April 2022
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The metaverse has the potential to lead to breakthrough technologies for healthcare. Find out how
immersive innovations can help patients and doctors improve health outcomes.
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Bernard Marr
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View Latest Book The metaverse has the potential to improve all aspects of healthcare, from virtual wellness to mental
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Web 3.0 technologies like artificial intelligence, augmented reality, virtual reality, and the Internet of
     Medical Things are already being used to do things like train front-line pandemic workers and
relieve symptoms of post-traumatic stress (PTS).

Let’s explore some of the ways the metaverse will be the next frontier in the healthcare sector.

Telehealth

Research by McKinsey indicates that the use of telehealth increased 38x from the pre-pandemic
baseline to 2021.

The metaverse will enable us to expand on traditional telemedicine services. In the metaverse,
healthcare providers will be able to effectively virtually examine patients, and potentially diagnose
certain health conditions.

Metaverse telehealth consultations will also mean patients won’t need to be limited to healthcare
professionals in their geographic location. Patients in the U.S. could see specialists in Australia, and
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have trouble accessing care.

Medical Training and Education

The metaverse will offer new opportunities for highly immersive medical education and training.

Students and trainees could examine the anatomy of a human body in a virtual reality educational
environment, and the possibilities for solving problems, building creativity, and creating learning
spaces in the metaverse are practically limitless.

The World Health Organization's state-of-the-art learning center, The Academy, launched a new 
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feature in their training application that uses AR to show health workers how they can stay safe when

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working with COVID-19 patients. The app demonstrates the proper way to put on and remove
personal protective equipment (PPE).

During the demonstration, a learner can see a figure putting on and removing PPE, and then actually
direct the figure’s movements, therefore “learning by doing” instead of simply watching a training
video. 

The medical imaging software company Novarad Corporation released their OpenSight™ 
Augmented Reality System for Education, which gives students and teachers an immersive 
experience of any donor studies that can be performed with a CT machine. Using a Microsoft
HoloLens 2 headset, students can manipulate holograms using voice commands to show organs, 
bones, and soft tissues. 
Healthcare providers will also be able to use digital twins – virtual models, or simulations, of
processes, objects, or systems – to develop “test dummies” for individuals. They could use these
digital twins in the metaverse to predict how patients will react to medications, recover from illness,
or rehabilitate after surgery.

Surgery in the Metaverse

Surgeons are already using AR, VR, and AI technology to perform minimally-invasive surgeries.
With these immersive technologies, medical professionals get a 3D view of a patient’s body that
helps them plan and perform operations.

AR and VR simulations in the metaverse are also a safe way for surgeons-in-training to hone their
craft and face various technical challenges and complications. A surgeon can even get a head-up
display during an operation, so they don’t need to look away from the patient on the table to see
screen data or images.

Metaverse Mental Health Treatment

The metaverse has the potential to revolutionize mental health treatment. Psychiatrists and
psychotherapists could use the immersive experiences in the metaverse to treat issues like:

PTS
Anxiety disorders
Delusions
Psychosis
Hallucinations
Eating disorders
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