Metaverse in Healthcare

While Metaverse is evolving, it holds new potential in healthcare that combines technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Internet of Medical Devices, Web 3.0, intelligent cloud, edge and quantum computing along with robotics to provide new directions to healthcare.

It is undoubtedly true that digital health is on the booming stage and today, many people are unaware of how the metaverse can revolutionize multiple industries, including the healthcare sector, but the larger question is - can it bring the cost down while we embed all of them together to create the new health metaverse, in complying within the regulation.

The Metaverse is expected to be an effective tool to help perform complicated surgical procedures and enhance patient care. As surgical procedures were already using robotics, now complicated surgeries are all set to use Augmented Reality and for efficient diagnosis are using tech such as smart glasses.

At the same time, Virtual reality is getting used by doctors and experts to train fellow doctors and medical staff, wherein virtual reality can be leveraged to take a learner within a human body and can provide 360 degree view of a patient's ailment or to replicate procedures that are applied in the real world.

The entire interactions can be recorded and viewed over the desktop screens to provide minute details. There has been the use of Augmented reality in Surgical procedures, as surgical procedures were already using robotics, now complicated surgeries are all set to use augmented realities.

it removal of cancerous tumors or performing a complicated spinal surgery, doctors are looking forward to new ways of performing these surgeries with precision. Usage of robotics or what is also known as robot assisted surgeries were already in use to perform complicated procedures with precision and flexibility.

Microsoft is supporting different tech stacks to build metaverse apps rapidly, this space is definitely going to get crowded. Some of the tech stacks are provided by Microsoft on Azure around Metaverse, similarly AWS is moving ahead with the concept of digital twins. The value of Digital Twins is using this data to derive actionable insights, which is achieved by modelling and at-scale computing, representing the third and fourth key technologies.

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S Mohini Ratna, Editor, VARINDIA