Hospital & Healthcare Management August 16, 2022
UCHealth’s first in-app augmented reality experience is framed by patient distraction therapy, a practise the health system has long employed with virtual reality and other methods, and joy.
Starting this fall, a patient or visitor will be able to press a button in the UCHealth mobile app to be instructed to activate their device’s camera on a trigger point, which will cause an AR dog in the waiting area to digitally come to life. Patients will be able to select their favourite dog, possibly give the puppy a name, and then interact with them when they enter the room.
The UCHealth app’s use of AR is only getting started with this first use case. As per senior director of patient...
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