Extended Reality for Enhanced Telehealth During and Beyond COVID-19: Viewpoint

The COVID-19 pandemic caused widespread challenges and revealed vulnerabilities across global health care systems. In response, many health care providers turned to telehealth solutions, which have been widely embraced and are likely to become standard for modern care. Immersive extended reality (XR...

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Autores principales: Ong, Triton, Wilczewski, Hattie, Paige, Samantha R, Soni, Hiral, Welch, Brandon M, Bunnell, Brian E
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: JMIR Publications 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8315161/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34227992
http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/26520
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author Ong, Triton
Wilczewski, Hattie
Paige, Samantha R
Soni, Hiral
Welch, Brandon M
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description The COVID-19 pandemic caused widespread challenges and revealed vulnerabilities across global health care systems. In response, many health care providers turned to telehealth solutions, which have been widely embraced and are likely to become standard for modern care. Immersive extended reality (XR) technologies have the potential to enhance telehealth with greater acceptability, engagement, and presence. However, numerous technical, logistic, and clinical barriers remain to the incorporation of XR technology into telehealth practice. COVID-19 may accelerate the union of XR and telehealth as researchers explore novel solutions to close social distances. In this viewpoint, we highlight research demonstrations of XR telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic and discuss future directions to make XR the next evolution of remote health care.
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spelling pubmed-83151612021-08-11 Extended Reality for Enhanced Telehealth During and Beyond COVID-19: Viewpoint Ong, Triton Wilczewski, Hattie Paige, Samantha R Soni, Hiral Welch, Brandon M Bunnell, Brian E JMIR Serious Games Viewpoint The COVID-19 pandemic caused widespread challenges and revealed vulnerabilities across global health care systems. In response, many health care providers turned to telehealth solutions, which have been widely embraced and are likely to become standard for modern care. Immersive extended reality (XR) technologies have the potential to enhance telehealth with greater acceptability, engagement, and presence. However, numerous technical, logistic, and clinical barriers remain to the incorporation of XR technology into telehealth practice. COVID-19 may accelerate the union of XR and telehealth as researchers explore novel solutions to close social distances. In this viewpoint, we highlight research demonstrations of XR telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic and discuss future directions to make XR the next evolution of remote health care. JMIR Publications 2021-07-26 /pmc/articles/PMC8315161/ /pubmed/34227992 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/26520 Text en ©Triton Ong, Hattie Wilczewski, Samantha R Paige, Hiral Soni, Brandon M Welch, Brian E Bunnell. Originally published in JMIR Serious Games (https://games.jmir.org), 26.07.2021. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in JMIR Serious Games, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on https://games.jmir.org, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.
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