MedCity News November 10, 2021
VR adoption is being stifled by the medical field’s scientific mindset, where a raft of clinical trials are first expected before adoption is even considered. This is of course an extremely valid consideration in the operating and treating stages, but can be limiting when over-broadly applied to the entire life cycle of the patient experience.
As the healthcare industry struggles to emerge from the Covid crisis, we’re rapidly turning to new solutions to deal with the unprecedented influx of patients. To manage the intake, parking lots are becoming care units, the traditional waiting room is being re-made or being discarded altogether.
But there’s one experimental solution that’s rarely tried, even though its efficacy for relieving stress and discomfort has...