these publications trace a coherent arc: from prenatal monitoring, to labor itself, to anxiety management across pregnancy as a whole.
What Is the Future of Therapeutic VR and Why Does It Matter?
what is the future of therapeutic VR?
It’s a future in which immersive, evidence-based experiences are integrated into everyday care—prescribed by clinicians, trusted by institutions, reimbursed by payers, and embraced by patients. It’s a future that will depend not just on technology, but on structure, collaboration, and clinical leadership.
Transforming Mental Health Care: The Role of VR in a New Era of Mental Health Treatment by Dr Farah Shiraz
VRforHealth is proud to feature the original article of guest author, clinical psychologist and digital mental health expert Dr. Farah Shiraz who explores how virtual reality is transforming the treatment of conditions like anxiety, psychosis, and treatment-resistant hallucinations. From Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy to immersive avatar-based interventions, she highlights the power of VR to personalize care and expand access in the rapidly evolving field of therapeutic VR or VR therapies
Virtual Reality: Expanding Haptic Applications in Medical Simulation Beyond Specialized Surgical Training
haptics can improve users’ sense of embodiment and support skill transfer in immersive environments.
Supporting the 18Loop & ACCO partnership to improve the lives of children with cancer and their families
Virtual Reality benefits children and their families as they face cancer. 18Loop and ACCO ensure that headsets and programs are delivered to some of the families that need them. Help us give more by donating to these worthy organizations.
#SundayResearchDive: Evaluating VR for Pain Management from Multiple Perspectives
To better understand the current landscape and potential future developments, I’ve selected four interesting articles published this week on PubMed. Each one addresses a unique aspect of VR’s role in pain management, ranging from labor pain and pediatric chronic pain to psychophysical measures and sensorimotor uncertainty.
#SundayResearchDive: The Imperative of Safety and Ethics in Healthcare VR and AR
we step back from dissecting specific clinical applications to tackle an issue that underpins all healthcare VR and AR projects: the ethics and safety involved
A VRforHealth Interview with Physician and Committed VR Innovator, Dr José Ferrer Costa
interview by Denise Silber with Dr Jose Ferrer Costa, a physician at BSA, and a committed contributor to the application of Virtual Reality in healthcare.
VRforHealth Pioneers Multi-Partner VR Pediatric Cancer Pilot
VRforHealth is proud to announce the launch of our pioneering multi-partner VR pediatric cancer pilot, whose purpose is to assist children with cancer and their families.
An Interview with VRforHealth partner, Get Real: “How can healthcare organizations jumpstart adoption of Virtual Reality?”
Denise Silber, co-founder of VRforHealth interviewed Ed Haravon, CEO of Get Real about how healthcare organizations can jumpstart their adoption of Virtual Reality, from educating themselves, on to execution. She also was able to get in a question about the VR headsets seen at CES 2023!
