Healthcare Metaverse: Applications, Challenges, and Future Development DOI

Nitin Rane,

Saurabh Choudhary, Jayesh Rane

et al.

SSRN Electronic Journal, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Jan. 1, 2023

The incorporation of metaverse technologies into the healthcare sector has emerged as a revolutionary paradigm, creating new possibilities for patient care, medical research, and education. This paper explores varied applications, challenges, future prospects Healthcare Metaverse within different subfields, utilizing spectrum technologies. In domain facilitates remote consultations, monitoring, development personalized treatment plans. Virtual Reality (VR) Augmented (AR) provide immersive simulations, assisting patients in rehabilitation mental health interventions. Furthermore, investigates potential elevating education by enabling students practitioners to participate realistic, interactive scenarios surgical simulations. Medical research reaps benefits through collaborative platforms that transcend geographical boundaries. Researchers can engage shared virtual environments, thereby accelerating pace discovery innovation. delves application blockchain technology ensure secure transparent data sharing, which is crucial advancing knowledge. challenges implementing Metaverse, including concerns related privacy, technological interoperability, ethical considerations. It addresses these proposes strategies mitigation, underscoring significance interdisciplinary collaboration regulatory frameworks. Looking ahead, envisions evolution with integration emerging such Artificial Intelligence (AI), haptic feedback, Internet Things (IoT). These advancements hold promise improved diagnostic capabilities, approaches, enhanced outcomes. Across diverse surgery, diagnostics, health, rehabilitation, showcases its versatility. study reviews impact VR, AR, Mixed (MR) on each subfield, highlighting their unique contributions synergies. serves guiding resource professionals, researchers, policymakers navigating dynamic intersection

Language: Английский

Metaverse Wearables for Immersive Digital Healthcare: A Review DOI Creative Commons
Kisoo Kim,

Hyosill Yang,

Ji-Hun Lee

et al.

Advanced Science, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 10(31)

Published: Sept. 22, 2023

The recent exponential growth of metaverse technology has been instrumental in reshaping a myriad sectors, not least digital healthcare. This comprehensive review critically examines the landscape and future applications wearables toward immersive key technologies advancements that have spearheaded metamorphosis are categorized, encapsulating all-encompassed extended reality, such as virtual augmented mixed other haptic feedback systems. Moreover, fundamentals their deployment assistive healthcare (especially for rehabilitation), medical nursing education, remote patient management treatment investigated. potential benefits integrating into paradigms multifold, encompassing improved prognosis, enhanced accessibility to high-quality care, high standards practitioner instruction. Nevertheless, these without inherent challenges untapped opportunities, which span privacy protection, data safeguarding, innovation artificial intelligence. In summary, research trajectories circumvent hurdles also discussed, further augmenting incorporation within infrastructures post-pandemic era.

Language: Английский

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Revolutionary Point‐of‐Care Wearable Diagnostics for Early Disease Detection and Biomarker Discovery through Intelligent Technologies DOI Creative Commons
Fatemeh Haghayegh,

Alireza Norouziazad,

Elnaz Haghani

et al.

Advanced Science, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: July 3, 2024

Early-stage disease detection, particularly in Point-Of-Care (POC) wearable formats, assumes pivotal role advancing healthcare services and precision-medicine. Public benefits of early detection extend beyond cost-effectively promoting outcomes, to also include reducing the risk comorbid diseases. Technological advancements enabling POC biomarker recognition empower discovery new markers for various health conditions. Integration wearables with intelligent frameworks represents ground-breaking innovations automation operations, conducting advanced large-scale data analysis, generating predictive models, facilitating remote guided clinical decision-making. These substantially alleviate socioeconomic burdens, creating a paradigm shift diagnostics, revolutionizing medical assessments technology development. This review explores critical topics recent progress development 1) systems solutions physiological monitoring, as well 2) discussing current trends adoption smart technologies within settings developing biological assays, ultimately 3) exploring utilities platforms discovery. Additionally, translation from research labs broader applications. It addresses associated risks, biases, challenges widespread Artificial Intelligence (AI) integration diagnostics systems, while systematically outlining potential prospects, challenges, opportunities.

Language: Английский

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Digital technologies to unlock safe and sustainable opportunities for medical device and healthcare sectors with a focus on the combined use of digital twin and extended reality applications: A review DOI Creative Commons
Neil J. Rowan

The Science of The Total Environment, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 926, P. 171672 - 171672

Published: March 12, 2024

Medical devices have increased in complexity where there is a pressing need to consider design thinking and specialist training for manufacturers, healthcare sterilization providers, regulators. Appropriately addressing this consideration will positively inform end-to-end supply chain logistics, production, processing, sterilization, safety, regulation, education, sustainability circularity. There are significant opportunities innovate develop appropriate digital tools help unlock efficiencies these important areas. This constitutes the first paper create an awareness of define different technologies informing enabling medical device production from holistic life cycle perspective. It describes added-value using innovations meet emerging many disposable reusable devices. addresses value accessing integrated multi-actor HUBs that combine academia, industry, healthcare, regulators society opportunities. Such as cost-effective access pilot facilities expertise converges innovation, material science, biocompatibility, sterility assurance, business model sustainability. highlights marked gap academic R&D activities (PRISMA review best publications conducted between January 2010 2024) actual list U.S. FDA's approved marketed artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML), augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR) enabled-medical applications. Bespoke examples benefits underlying future use includes potential implementation machine supporting parametric release sterilized products through efficient monitoring critical process data (complying with ISO 11135:2014) would benefit stakeholders. also focuses on transformative combining twin extended thinking, patient circularity

Language: Английский

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AI-enabled full-body dynamic avatar reconstruction using triboelectric smart clothing for metaverse applications DOI Creative Commons
Chi Zhang, Lei Zhang, Yu Tian

et al.

eScience, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 100373 - 100373

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Photonics-powered augmented reality skin electronics for proactive healthcare: multifaceted opportunities DOI
Bakr Ahmed Taha, Ali J. Addie, Ahmed C. Kadhim

et al.

Microchimica Acta, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 191(5)

Published: April 8, 2024

Language: Английский

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Advances in Piezoelectret Materials‐Based Bidirectional Haptic Communication Devices DOI

Yanting Gong,

Kaijun Zhang, Iek Man Lei

et al.

Advanced Materials, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 36(33)

Published: June 19, 2024

Abstract Bidirectional haptic communication devices accelerate the revolution of virtual/augmented reality and flexible/wearable electronics. As an emerging kind flexible piezoelectric materials, piezoelectret materials can effortlessly convert mechanical force into electrical signals respond to fields in a deformation manner, exhibiting enormous potential construction bidirectional devices. Existing reviews on primarily focus energy harvesters sensors, recent development piezoelectret‐based has not been comprehensively reviewed. Herein, comprehensive overview construction, along with advances devices, is provided. First, timeline, key characteristics, various fabrication methods are introduced. Subsequently, following underlying mechanisms electromechanical signal conversion piezoelectret, strategies improve d 33 coefficients proposed. The principles perception feedback also highlighted, representative works progress this area summarized. Finally, challenges opportunities associated improving overall practicability materials‐based discussed.

Language: Английский

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The Impact of the Internet of Behavior on Wearable Technology DOI
Nitin Aggrawal,

Atul Pandey

Advances in psychology, mental health, and behavioral studies (APMHBS) book series, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 337 - 410

Published: Jan. 22, 2025

This paper explores the integration of Internet Behavior (IoB) with wearable technology and its potential to enhance user engagement improve health outcomes. IoB allows for collection analysis behavioral data, offering personalized insights that can significantly influence efficacy health-focused wearables such as fitness trackers smartwatches. The strategic framework developed in this presents a pathway optimizing by leveraging better meet individual goals behaviors. Key findings indicate IoB-driven positively impact motivation, adherence plans, long-term

Language: Английский

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Digital twins and AI transforming healthcare systems through innovation and data-driven decision making DOI
Adel Oulefki, Abbes Amira, Sebti Foufou

et al.

Health and Technology, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Feb. 18, 2025

Language: Английский

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Social prescribing in the metaverse: a new frontier for primary care practice DOI Open Access
Arunpirasath Nadarasa

Global Health Journal, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 8(1), P. 32 - 35

Published: Feb. 7, 2024

The advent of immersive technologies such as the metaverse, extended reality, artificial intelligence, and blockchain offers novel possibilities to transform healthcare services. These innovations coincide with clinicians' aspirations deliver more comprehensive, patient-centered care tailored individuals' singular needs preferences. Integration these emerging tools may confer opportunities for providers engage patients through new modalities expand their role. However, responsible implementation necessitates deliberation ethical implications steadfast adherence foundational principles compassion interpersonal connection underpinning profession. While metaverse introduces channels social prescribing, this perspective advocates that its ultimate purpose should be strengthening, not supplanting, human relationships. We propose an framework centered on respect patients' dignity guide integration platforms into medical practice. This serves both harness potential benefits mitigate risks dehumanization or uncompassionate care. Our analysis maps developing topology metaverse-enabled while upholding moral imperatives medicine promote healing relationships flourishing.

Language: Английский

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Artificial intelligence to enhance prehospital stroke diagnosis and triage: a perspective DOI Creative Commons
Zoe Wolcott, Stephen English

Frontiers in Neurology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 15

Published: May 2, 2024

As health systems organize to deliver the highest quality stroke care their patients, there is increasing emphasis being placed on prehospital recognition, accurate diagnosis, and efficient triage improve outcomes after stroke. Emergency medical services (EMS) personnel currently rely heavily dispatch accuracy, screening tools, bypass protocols notification for patients with suspected stroke, but novel tools including mobile units telemedicine-enabled ambulances are already changing landscape of care. Herein, authors provide our perspective current state diagnosis several these emerging trends. Then, we commentary highlight potential artificial intelligence (AI) applications detection, timely dispatch, enhance EMS training performance, develop diagnostic use.

Language: Английский

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