GIANT Healthy Innovators Replay : technologies and mental health

GIANT Healthy Innovators Live TV with Barry Shrier recently featured VRforHealth co-founder Denise Silber on the tenth episode of its third season, alongside Zain Sikafi, Co-founder and CEO of Mynurva. Sikafi aims to improve the accessibility of psychological therapies by promoting telehealth alternatives through his startup, making him a wonderful complement to this episode’s theme of technological innovations in healthcare … Read More

MedTech Insights Replay on new technologies for better patient care

This episode of MedTech Insights features VRforHealth CEO Denise Silber alongside hosts Dr. Jennifer Joe and Dr. Ami Bhatt Maniar, as well as Kim Shah, CEO of KnowYourMeds. This stimulating 45-minute conversation highlights the importance of technology and the role of companies like VRforHealth in advancing patient advocacy and access to healthcare. Silber and Shah both discuss their professional backgrounds … Read More

VRforHealth Webinar “VR & Pain” replay

VRforHealth’s first Webinar in the VRforHealth Live series is now available for viewing on our official YouTube channel. “VR & Pain – the Patient Experience” features a one-on-one conversation between VRforHealth co-founder and digital health pioneer Denise Silber and Tom Norris, a chronic pain patient, patient advocate, and retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant-Colonel.  Tom also leads chronic pain support groups … Read More

New: Attend the Launch of The Growing Value of XR in Healthcare Report

VRforHealth is proud to support the launch of “The Growing Value of XR in Healthcare in the UK Report”, the first of its kind to explore the use of XR in the UK’s healthcare sector today.  This report has been in the making for a number of months, under the direction of Ross O’Brien, Sarah Ticho and Fiona Kilkelly of the XR … Read More

Recommended Reading: A Review of 8399 VR and AR Medical Publications by a team of 14

The JMIR article entitled “Virtual and Augmented Reality Applications in Medicine: Analysis of the Scientific Literature” has 14 authors and was published online in February, 2021. This paper by Andy Wai Kan Yeung et al. constitutes the first bibliometric analysis of scientific research on the applications of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality in medicine. Spanning the entire history of VR … Read More

A Psychologist’s Journey to Treating Phobias with VR

VRforHealth invites you to learn about the work of Howard Gurr, licensed psychologist in New York State, and his journey toward the use of Virtual Reality Therapy in helping patients overcome phobias and anxieties and assist in the enhancement of mindfulness. Since the pandemic, Howard practices VR therapy remotely. He also created the “Directory of VR Therapists International” to help … Read More