Surgeons operating on a patient in Nigeria right from a Hospital in the United States!
From getting people to roam around trying to catch imaginary monsters to beautifying yourself with Snapchat filters AR has a wide range of applications indeed! Yet one of the most important impacts of AR is its direct effect on our health.
In the past 200 years the average human lifespan has more than doubled. Technology has played a clinical role in eradicating diseases and improving general health. It allowed us to drastically improve our life-span as well as quality of life.
With the onset of
upcoming technologies like Augmented Reality, the healthcare industry is all
set to enter the future!
From changing education
and training methodologies to improving surgical procedures, AR will become a
quintessential tool in any doctor’s arsenal!
Ted Talk- Impact of AR in Hospitals by Nassir Navab
AR Changing Medical Education
One of the hardest challenges of medical
training is providing experience to trainees without risk. AR along with
Virtual Reality is set to overcome this challenge by allowing trainees to
practice in virtual and semi-virtual environments, thus training a whole
generation of superior surgeons and doctors!
Microsoft Hololens
transforming medical education
The possibilities are not
just limited to surgery though, everything from studying anatomy to
neuroscience seeks to gain from having Augmented Reality provide greater real
time information!
These technologies
promise to help the doctors education change to a more hands on practical
training where they can visualize instead of simply reading from books!
In The Operating Room
The hardest tasks a doctor faces as well
as the one with infinite variables and possibilities for mistakes, surgery is a
scary procedure for almost everyone. Augmented Reality hopes to ease the
surgeon’s problems by providing crucial data right in front of their eyes!
While earlier surgery required monitors
in the operating room to display vital statistics and images delivered by an
endoscopic camera, thanks to AR, a surgeon can now wear smart glasses and stay
focused on the task at hand, therefore minimizing multitasking and improving
focus.
AR can also avoid complications by
helping surgeons and doctors visualize possible problems or organs better and
aid in precise and accurate decisions.
3D
visualization is a technique which provides information to doctors in a 3D
contextualized and interactive manner. It is especially helpful in highly
precise and difficult tasks like brain and Neurosurgery!
Top medical Innovation
Diagnosis
and Remote Treatment
Ever heard of people from small towns or
3rd world countries flying to get treatment from specialists and
experts?
Well for people who can afford it, it’s
all well and good but for most of us, especially those from underdeveloped
continents like Africa, it is a huge problem.
AR is expected to intervene to an extent
in which it will help doctors to make significantly more accurate diagnosis’
and assessments.
There is a huge shortage of qualified and
skilled surgeons in certain countries. This is where AR comes in hand, where it
can help doctors to remotely advise other doctors residing in different
locations, by projecting the situation at hand in real time. This technology
ensures that cities around the world have accessible medicine treatments at
hand.
Ted Talk-Nadine Hachah-Haram-
Impact of AR on surgeries
Scope
The potential for
Augmented Reality in the Healthcare industry is immense! It is not long before
AR becomes standard in every hospital and operating room, helping improve
healthcare standards and minimizing scope of Human Error.
AR has come a long way
from filters to assisting in surgeries and this groundbreaking technology is
surely going to improve the experience of both the patient and the doctor!
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