XR in the era of COVID-19

Koumaditis, Konstantinos; Mousas, Christos; Chinello, Francesco

doi:10.1080/0144929x.2021.1988320

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“…Furthermore, the COVID-19 pandemic has propelled disruptive innovation to come up with new ways of delivering healthcare services. As climate change will cause more frequent viral outbreaks, XR will find a wider application in healthcare industry ( 11 – 13 ). In the UK, various XR technologies assisted healthcare roles during the COVID-19 epidemic ( 14 ) (see Figure 2 ).…”

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Implications of immersive technologies in healthcare sector and its built environment

Yang

2023

Front. Med. Technol.

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ObjectivesThis research focuses on how built environment experts can contribute to the MXR-enabled digital innovation as part of the multidisciplinary team effort to ensure post-pandemic resilience in healthcare built environment. The goal of this research is to help healthcare providers, built environment experts, and policy makers respectively: (1) Advocate the benefits of MXR for innovating health and social care; (2) Spark debate across networks of expertise to create health-promoting environment; and (3) Understand the overriding priorities in making effective pathways to the implementation of MXR.MethodsTo highlight the novelty of this research, the study relies on two qualitative methodologies: exploratory literature review and semi-structured interviews. Based on the evaluation of prior works and cross-national case studies, hypotheses are formulated from three arenas: (1) Cross-sectional Initiatives for Post-pandemic Resilience; (2) Interoperability and Usability of Next-gen Medicines; and (3) Metaverse and New Forms of Value in Future Healthcare Ecosystems. To verify those hypotheses, empirical findings are derived from in-depth interviews with nine key informants.ResultsThe main findings are summarized under the following three themes: (1) Synergism between Architecture and Technology; (2) Patient Empowerment and Staff Support; and (3) Scalable Health and Wellbeing in Non-hospital and Therapeutic Settings. Firstly, both built environment and healthcare sectors can benefit from the various capabilities of MXR through cross-sectional initiatives, evidence-based practices, and participatory approaches. Secondly, a confluence of knowledge and methods of HCI and HBI can increase the interoperability and usability of MXR for the patient-centered and value-based healthcare models. Thirdly, the MXR-enabled technological regime will largely affect the new forms of value in healthcare premises by fostering more decentralized, preventive, and therapeutic characteristics in the future healthcare ecosystems.ConclusionWhether it's virtual or physical, our healthcare systems have placed great emphasis on the rigor of evidence-based approach linking health outcome to a clinical environment. Henceforth, built environment experts should seek closer ties with the MXR ecosystems for the co-production of scalable health and wellbeing in non-hospital and therapeutic settings. Ultimately, this is to improve resource efficiency in the healthcare sector while considering the transition of health resources towards in silico status by increasing the implementation of MXR.

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Implications of immersive technologies in healthcare sector and its built environment

Yang

2023

Front. Med. Technol.

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“…Meanwhile, due to the outbreak and continuation of the global novel coronavirus pandemic since December 2019 (COVID-19), many countries have been forced to adopt lockdown measures (such as reducing unnecessary movement of people or major events, etc. ), urging people to maintain social distancing to curb the spread of the virus (Ashraf 2021 ; Ghosh et al 2020 ; Koumaditis et al 2021 ). This has brought many challenges to the development of transregional or transnational emergency drill cooperation (Ashraf 2021 ).…”

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confidence: 99%