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Sharecare Launches VR Program to Bring Innovation to Exercise

by Jasmine Pennic 01/26/2023 Leave a Comment

Sharecare Launches VR Program to Bring Innovation to Exercise

What You Should Know: - Digital health company Sharecare launches Get Active, a new virtual reality program to help employers encourage exercise among their workforces in a fun, approachable, and accessible way. - In a pilot with its customer Lennar Corporation, one of the nation's leading homebuilders, Sharecare’s Get Active program for Meta Quest 2 yielded strong results for both healthy and high-risk Associates.  Lennar Pilot Program In a pilot conducted in late 2022
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VA Provides Veterans with Immersive, VR Treatment for Chronic Lower Back Pain

by Fred Pennic 12/09/2022 Leave a Comment

VA Provides Veterans with Immersive, VR Treatment for Chronic Lower Back Pain

What You Should Know: - AppliedVR, an immersive therapeutics (ITx) pioneer advancing a novel, virtual reality-based approach to medicine, today announced a contract with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide its FDA-authorized RelieVRx (formerly EaseVRx) solution to select Veterans impacted by chronic lower back pain (CLBP). - AppliedVR was awarded the contract with the VHA Innovation Ecosystem, a division of the VA that discovers, evaluates, and
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HLTH22 Day 2 News Summary: Amazon Clinic Launch, General Catalyst, Verizon, Higi

by Fred Pennic 11/15/2022 Leave a Comment

17 HLTH 2022 Predictions from Digital Health Executives to Watch

Amazon Launches Amazon Clinic Across 32 States Amazon launches Amazon Clinic, a virtual care option that will operate across 32 states that offers up-front pricing, and treatment within hours, instead of days—helping customers achieve better health. Welcome to easy-to-use, effective care for common health conditions. For customers, the cost of consultations will vary by provider and includes ongoing follow-up messages with their clinician for up to two weeks after the initial
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Penumbra Launches First Hands-Free, Full-Body VR for Rehab

by Syed Hamza Sohail 11/15/2022 Leave a Comment

Penumbra Launches First Hands-Free, Full-Body VR for Rehab

What You Should Know: - Penumbra, Inc., a global healthcare company focused on innovative therapies, today announced the first full-body, non-tethered immersive virtual reality (VR) healthcare offering. - The latest REAL® System y-Series is the only platform to use upper and lower body sensors that allow clinicians to track full body movement and progress in real-time. The expansion of the virtual reality-based healthcare platform, REAL System, will be used to address a broad range of
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Virtual Reality Therapy May Serve as Effective Adjunct To Anesthesia For Surgical Procedures

by Syed Hamza Sohail 09/21/2022 Leave a Comment

XRHealth Launches Virtual Reality Telehealth Clinic in Israel

What You Should Know: - The results of a clinical trial using software from XRHealth, developer and operator of virtual treatment rooms in the metaverse,  published in PLOS ONE demonstrated that virtual reality therapy may serve as an effective adjunct to anesthesia for surgical procedures. The trials were conducted with XRHealth’s immersive virtual reality software. - The results of the trial showed that the majority of patients (13/17) using the XRHealth VR technology did not need
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Hospital Deploys Immersive Virtual Reality Treatment Room for Kids with Cancer

by Jasmine Pennic 07/26/2022 Leave a Comment

Immersive Virtual Reality Treatment Room Changes Chemo Experience for Kids with Cancer

What You Should Know: - Lee Health’s Golisano Children’s Health Center in Naples, FL has deployed a new immersive virtual reality treatment room to improve the chemo experience for kids with cancer. Today, children battling cancer can now receive their chemotherapy while traveling to outer space, going on a deep-sea diving adventure or being immersed inside a video game. - The opening of the immersive treatment room took place earlier this year and is part of a comprehensive expansion of
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