1. 2017 HUMAN CAPITAL INVESTMENT CONFERENCE
PALMER HOUSE HILTON CHICAGO | NOVEMBER 14-15
Steve Grubbs
Founder & Healthcare
Virtual Reality Expert
Victory Enterprises
Using Technology to Develop the Future Workforce

2. Virtual Reality in Healthcare by Steve Grubbs

3. Virtual Reality: Definition
Virtual Reality: Immersed into a realistic, but artificial environment that is capable of having interaction. Might include 360 video or graphically created environments.
Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Samsung Gear VR

5. Augmented Reality
A combination of artificial elements overlaid into a real environment, providing the ability to interact with these elements in the same experience.
Microsoft Hololens
Phone-based apps (Pokemon Go)

6. The Problems Virtual Reality Can Solve
Medical errors
Medical device training on virtual humans
Tech and nurse training in surgical simulations (Penn State & UC Davis)
Patient management training
Pain Management
During procedures some are beginning to use VR to transport the patient to another place, providing a secondary tool for pain management.
Detailed Medical Imaging
VR is already impacting the world of medical imaging through EchoPixel’s True 3D system that renders standard ultrasound, CT scan and MRI images into 3D forms.

7. Let’s Pause for a Demonstration..

8. What the Research Says
A 2016 test in China reinforced virtual reality’s effectiveness:
Passing rate for the groups that engaged with the subject matter in VR was 90 percent
Pass rate for the non-VR group - studying the same material - was 40 percent.
In 2006, Journal of Cases on Information Technology showed students using VR increased their mean test scores by 14 percent.

9. Practical First Steps Consider problems to overcome
Brainstorm whether VR or AR is a potential solution
Explore path of phone-based VR/AR or computer-based
Construct VR beta
Test
Refine
Deploy