What You Should Know:
- Mayo Clinic will launch a new Mayo Clinic Proceedings expansion journal on digital health, with the first issue to be published in early 2023. Articles will be published ahead of issue as they are accepted.
- The journal, Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Digital Health, will focus on the digital transformation that is reshaping healthcare. It will join Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Innovations, Quality & Outcomes, an open-access journal edited by Taimur
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Virtual Reality
New Meta Quest Pro Enables Scientists to Step Inside Molecules Using Nanome
What You Should Know:
- Meta released details of its Quest Pro headset today. In a departure from gaming-only content, the new headset comes with Nanome, a virtual and augmented reality app that allows users to step inside and interact with molecules - helping scientists make “eureka” discoveries, and revolutionize the way students learn biology and chemistry. Nanome is available for free on the new Meta Quest Pro headset, releasing on October 25.
- Nanome helps scientists discover
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MIT System “Sees” The Inner Structure of Body During Physical Rehab
What You Should Know:
- Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Massachusetts General Hospital have created an unsupervised physical rehabilitation system called MuscleRehab.
- Motion tracking captures motion activity, while Electrical Impedance Tomography measures “what the muscles are up to”, whereas a virtual reality headset and tracking suit lets one watch themselves perform alongside a physical therapist.
Virtual Reality Driven
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Virtual Reality Therapy May Serve as Effective Adjunct To Anesthesia For Surgical Procedures
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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XRHealth Adds NeuroReality Cognitive Training to Virtual Clinics
What You Should Know:
- XRHealth, the gateway to the healthcare metaverse, announces today that the company adds NeuroReality’s cognitive training to their virtual clinics.
- The NeuroReality’s virtual reality neuro rehab, a serious game, is an immersive experience known as Koji’s Quest. NeuroReality’s VR neuro rehab is designed for individuals who suffer from the consequences of stroke and brain injuries, where patients are guided through activities aimed
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FundamentalVR Expands into Urology with Teleflex Partnership
What You Should Know:
- FundamentalVR, a provider of virtual reality (VR) integration for medical simulation is expanding its offering into urology through a partnership with Teleflex Interventional Urology.
- Bringing its immersive, haptic VR training solution to urologists, the partnership highlights how FundamentalVR’s advanced technology and high-fidelity graphics will accelerate the learning curve in the use of Teleflex’s UroLift® 2
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Cedars-Sinai Accelerator Adds 10 New Digital Health Startups
What You Should Know:
- Cedars-Sinai Accelerator, today announced its eighth accelerator class of ten new digital health startups.
- From digital health mental health services to wearable devices to manage chronic asthma, these innovative healthcare-focused startups are working to transform health and healthcare delivery as part of the Los Angeles-based accelerator program.
Cedars-Sinai Accelerator Overview
During the three-month term, company representatives collaborate with
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Ion and Houston Methodist to Open Healthcare Innovation Tech Hub
What You Should Know:
- Houston Methodist joins the Ion as its first healthcare-centric partner in its growing innovation hub.
- The hospital will build out a space at the Ion modeled after Houston Methodist’s Center for Innovation Technology Hub located at its flagship hospital in the Texas Medical Center to showcase the latest in healthcare innovation.
Opening a New Window Into the Future of Healthcare
The Ion anchors a 16-acre innovation district, the epicenter for
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FundamentalVR Raises $20M for VR Surgical Simulation Platform
What You Should Know:
- FundamentalVR has raised an additional $20M to significantly accelerate medical skill-transfer and increase surgical proficiency through its world-leading medical simulation platform, Fundamental Surgery.
- The funding was led by EQT Life Sciences investing from the LSP Health Economics Fund 2 and joined by prior investors Downing Ventures. The new investments follow a Series A round in October 2019 and bring the
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Hospital Deploys Immersive Virtual Reality Treatment Room 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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