Fierce Healthcare November 1, 2023
Technologies like wearables and virtual reality could become key tools in engaging neurodiverse patient populations, streamlining provider workflows and tracking outcomes, payers, therapists and tech founders said during a recent virtual roundtable.
“The promise of virtual technologies is to increase access and to create pathways where there’s more affordable care,” Vijay Ravindran, founder and CEO of Floreo, which organized the roundtable, said during the event. Floreo is the maker of VR behavioral therapy content focused on autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders.
While enabling technologies have been around for years, “the pandemic has elevated the conversation even more,” added Solomon Parker, director of intellectual and developmental disabilities program strategy at CareSource.
There is growing evidence of tech’s ability to address geographic...