✨ Digital health’s 🤖👨⚕️ metaverse 🌍💻 landscape While there’s a wide range of possibility for #healthcare in the #metaverse, we’ll focus on today’...
While there’s a wide range of possibility for #healthcare in the #metaverse, we’ll focus on today’s two most common categories of #metaverse applications in #DigitalHealth: -- Immersive environments 🌐 (#ImmersiveEnvironments): #virtual or #hybrid worlds that #healthcare providers and consumers engage with for #educational, #assistive, or #therapeutic purposes -- Digital twins 🧑🧑 (#DigitalTwins): representations of real-world entities that exist in virtual worlds and can be manipulated to glean #insights for healthcare decision making ✨ What comes next for #digitalhealth in the #metaverse? - We’re especially excited by the metaverse’s potential to reduce burden on patients’ real lives, whether by scaling #access to #therapeutic environments or by simulating possibilities before making care decisions. - We also wonder how these solutions might deepen connections in #VirtualCommunities 👨👩👧👧, break down isolation barriers for seniors and people with disabilities, and make it easier for individuals to participate in #research 🔬.