Virtual reality Archives - HIT Leaders and News https://us.hitleaders.news/tag/virtual-reality/ Healthcare Innovations and technology news and views Mon, 01 Sep 2025 15:53:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 Chulalongkorn University: Virtual Reality Is No Longer a Novelty in Emergency Care Training https://us.hitleaders.news/academic-research/49640/virtual-reality-is-no-longer-a-novelty-in-emergency-care-training/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=virtual-reality-is-no-longer-a-novelty-in-emergency-care-training Mon, 01 Sep 2025 15:53:50 +0000 https://us.hitleaders.news/?p=49640 The expansion of virtual reality (VR) training in emergency medicine, as demonstrated by Chulalongkorn University’s nationwide rollout of its ER-VIPE platform, signals a larger shift in how global health systems are redefining preparedness, team performance, and workforce resiliency. The program, designed to improve real-time collaboration among emergency clinicians through gamified, VR-based simulations, offers more than an instructional upgrade. It highlights an emerging operational strategy: using immersive, low-risk environments to hardwire team-based competencies at scale.

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]]> Study: Mental Health Gets a Boost From Artificial Intelligence https://us.hitleaders.news/academic-research/42141/study-mental-health-gets-a-boost-from-artificial-intelligence/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=study-mental-health-gets-a-boost-from-artificial-intelligence Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:02:18 +0000 https://us.hitleaders.news/?p=42141 Cedars-Sinai physician-scientists have developed a first-of-its-kind program that uses immersive virtual reality and generative artificial intelligence to provide mental health support.

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]]> Study Finds the Addition of Haptics to VR Training Substantially Improves Student Outcomes https://us.hitleaders.news/academic-research/37776/study-finds-the-addition-of-haptics-to-vr-training-substantially-improves-student-outcomes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=study-finds-the-addition-of-haptics-to-vr-training-substantially-improves-student-outcomes Tue, 27 Sep 2022 13:36:44 +0000 https://us.hitleaders.news/?p=37776 The Annals of Medicine and Surgery has published the results of a trial, testing the promises of haptics integrated VR surgical simulations. Conducted by Drs Gani, Pickering, Sabri, Ellis and Pucher, the trial aimed to evaluate the educational impact of integrated haptic feedback in an immersive VR bone drilling simulation on the real-world benchtop performance of a cohort of surgeons in a double-blinded randomised controlled trial. The trial demonstrated a significant improvement in trainees’ learning curve and significantly better surgical outcomes, supporting the role of haptic integration in VR simulation models.

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