Metaverse phenomenon and its impact on health: A scoping review

Garavand, Ali; Aslani, Nasim

doi:10.1016/j.imu.2022.101029

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“…Nowadays researchers are focusing on this new emerging technology and there is a plethora of related research works on metaverse technology. The researchers have investigated the role of the metaverse in different fields such as healthcare [ 15 ], medicine [ 16 ], e-commerce [ 17 ], education [ 18 ], and smart cities [ 19 , 20 ].…”

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Metaverse in Healthcare Integrated with Explainable AI and Blockchain: Enabling Immersiveness, Ensuring Trust, and Providing Patient Data Security

Ali

Abdullah

Armand

et al. 2023

Sensors

121

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Digitization and automation have always had an immense impact on healthcare. It embraces every new and advanced technology. Recently the world has witnessed the prominence of the metaverse which is an emerging technology in digital space. The metaverse has huge potential to provide a plethora of health services seamlessly to patients and medical professionals with an immersive experience. This paper proposes the amalgamation of artificial intelligence and blockchain in the metaverse to provide better, faster, and more secure healthcare facilities in digital space with a realistic experience. Our proposed architecture can be summarized as follows. It consists of three environments, namely the doctor’s environment, the patient’s environment, and the metaverse environment. The doctors and patients interact in a metaverse environment assisted by blockchain technology which ensures the safety, security, and privacy of data. The metaverse environment is the main part of our proposed architecture. The doctors, patients, and nurses enter this environment by registering on the blockchain and they are represented by avatars in the metaverse environment. All the consultation activities between the doctor and the patient will be recorded and the data, i.e., images, speech, text, videos, clinical data, etc., will be gathered, transferred, and stored on the blockchain. These data are used for disease prediction and diagnosis by explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) models. The GradCAM and LIME approaches of XAI provide logical reasoning for the prediction of diseases and ensure trust, explainability, interpretability, and transparency regarding the diagnosis and prediction of diseases. Blockchain technology provides data security for patients while enabling transparency, traceability, and immutability regarding their data. These features of blockchain ensure trust among the patients regarding their data. Consequently, this proposed architecture ensures transparency and trust regarding both the diagnosis of diseases and the data security of the patient. We also explored the building block technologies of the metaverse. Furthermore, we also investigated the advantages and challenges of a metaverse in healthcare.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…During COVID-19, VR-based therapies emerged as the most convenient way of treatment for patients. Ali Garavand et al [ 15 ] presented the phenomenon of the metaverse and their impact on health. They collected data through electronic searches from famous scientific databases for example PubMed, Web of Science, etc.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Metaverse in Healthcare Integrated with Explainable AI and Blockchain: Enabling Immersiveness, Ensuring Trust, and Providing Patient Data Security

Ali

Abdullah

Armand

et al. 2023

Sensors

121

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“…Metaverse can be widely used in the sense of a living-type and game-type virtual world where both real and unreal coexist in the overall aspect of politics, economy, society, and culture through digital identities such as avatars. With the development of technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), Internet of Things (IoT), Blockchian, Non-Fungible Token (NFT), and other technologies implementing metaverse services, the transition to the metaverse civilization that provides a new level of experience by combining virtuality and reality is accelerating [ 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 ].…”

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Application of Metaverse Service to Healthcare Industry: A Strategic Perspective

Lee

2022

IJERPH

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This study is to explore a state of the art in metaverse service that is an emerging issue in applying it to the healthcare industry. The purpose of this study is to provide applicable strategic scenarios for effective metaverse service planning and implementation in healthcare settings. This study is focused on metaverse service as a business model. Thus, related literatures of metaverse service are reviewed in various aspects in healthcare industry. An exploratory approach is used to analyze current qualitative data characterizing healthcare metaverse service business positions and derive applicable strategies from business trends of current metaverse services. Several cases are examined based on the data obtained from various sources of healthcare and other related industries. This study synthesizes finding results and suggests applicable strategies of metaverse service in the healthcare industry. This study will facilitate strategic decision-making and policy-making processes to pursue a business opportunity development through an application of a metaverse service in healthcare and similar settings.

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“…Research has shown that virtual reality can be effective at reducing pain and anxiety in these situations. (19) • Virtual reality education and training: Virtual reality can be used to provide education and training to healthcare professionals, such as doctors, nurses, and other healthcare providers. For example, virtual reality simulations can be used to train healthcare professionals on techniques or technologies, or to provide simulated patient cases for practice and training.…”

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The future of health in the metaverse

Díaz-Chieng¹,

Auza-Santiváñez²,

Castillo³

2022

Metaverse Basic and Applied Research

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El metaverso es un espacio digital tridimensional inmersivo; las concepciones sobre su naturaleza y organización evolucionado, y cada vez se hace más hincapié en la evolución desde considerar el metaverso como una versión ampliada de un único mundo virtual hasta una amplia red de un número infinito de mundos interconectados. El objetivo de este artículo es describir el potencial del metaverso en la atención médica. Una posible característica de la consulta de un médico en el metaverso podría ser el uso de tecnología de realidad virtual para crear entornos de tratamiento inmersivos y personalizados para los pacientes. El médico también podría utilizar herramientas de realidad virtual para mostrar opciones de tratamiento o procedimientos, o para proporcionar material educativo. Existen varias aplicaciones potenciales del metaverso en medicina, incluido el uso de la realidad virtual y otras tecnologías inmersivas. Algunos ejemplos son: Terapia de exposición en realidad virtual para trastornos de ansiedad; terapia cognitivo-conductual basada en realidad virtual para la depresión; rehabilitación y fisioterapia basadas en realidad virtual; tratamiento del dolor en realidad virtual; y educación y formación en realidad virtual. El metaverso puede permitir un acceso más eficiente y cómodo a la atención, sobre todo para los pacientes que viven en zonas remotas o desatendidas. Estas plataformas contribuirán a experiencias de tratamiento más personalizadas e inmersivas, ya que la tecnología de realidad virtual puede utilizarse para crear entornos y experiencias a medida para los pacientes. De igual forma existe preocupación la privacidad y la seguridad de los pacientes, y los ciberataques.

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Metaverse phenomenon and its impact on health: A scoping review

Cited by 87 publications

References 15 publications

Metaverse in Healthcare Integrated with Explainable AI and Blockchain: Enabling Immersiveness, Ensuring Trust, and Providing Patient Data Security

Metaverse in Healthcare Integrated with Explainable AI and Blockchain: Enabling Immersiveness, Ensuring Trust, and Providing Patient Data Security

Application of Metaverse Service to Healthcare Industry: A Strategic Perspective

The future of health in the metaverse

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