What virtual reality technologies could provide to specialized healthcare in Finland?
Salmi, Sami (2018)
Salmi, Sami
Metropolia Ammattikorkeakoulu
2018
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201805046507
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201805046507
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This Master’s thesis explored the emerging new technology of Virtual Reality (VR) for healthcare industry. The purpose was to introduce the possibilities and studies what have been done in this field. Secondly, the aim was to evaluate the usability and maturity of the VR healthcare solutions. The goal was to create a road map for a Finnish specialized healthcare provider HUS.
In the beginning the study presents the VR technology hardware and software and what components does it comprise of. The study drew an overview to the current VR market situation to emphasize the importance why VR is booming to main stream.
Thesis searched literal sources of healthcare related VR solutions and introduced those. Main categories presented were VR solutions for psychotherapy, pain reduction, rehabilitation, simulation, education and surgery. Found use cases were evaluated by the evaluation criteria. The selected criteria were effectiveness, patient amounts, cost and other criteria. Combining the technology characteristics with found research studies and evaluating these formed the study output.
The result of the study recommended the most cost-efficient and useful VR solutions for the healthcare organizations. This provided broad scale of information of the VR solutions that should be further studied to introduce it to the clinical practices.
Secondly, the study provided information concerning researched fields of VR in healthcare for anyone interested. The VR solutions for the healthcare industry will change the way how the patients are treated in the future.
In the beginning the study presents the VR technology hardware and software and what components does it comprise of. The study drew an overview to the current VR market situation to emphasize the importance why VR is booming to main stream.
Thesis searched literal sources of healthcare related VR solutions and introduced those. Main categories presented were VR solutions for psychotherapy, pain reduction, rehabilitation, simulation, education and surgery. Found use cases were evaluated by the evaluation criteria. The selected criteria were effectiveness, patient amounts, cost and other criteria. Combining the technology characteristics with found research studies and evaluating these formed the study output.
The result of the study recommended the most cost-efficient and useful VR solutions for the healthcare organizations. This provided broad scale of information of the VR solutions that should be further studied to introduce it to the clinical practices.
Secondly, the study provided information concerning researched fields of VR in healthcare for anyone interested. The VR solutions for the healthcare industry will change the way how the patients are treated in the future.