Recent Development of Augmented Reality(AR) in medical field

Posted by ameliaabha on January 18th, 2018

Technology has been benefiting the healthcare, the latest developments taking place in the augmented reality. Medicine and Healthcare have a number of sub-categories .The best part of including the Augmented Reality in the field of medicine is that every section of the society gets to use it at their own pace. You might think that it will mainly be the healthcare specialists making good use of this technology but the real story is quite different. Doctors, patients, medical students and the health conscious people  are going to benefit from this assimilation tremendously.

First of all, doctors will be the most obvious benefactor with the addition of augmented reality in medical field. Diagnosis and treatment will become much more simpler and swift for the healthcare personnel and they will also get to save every  second when it counts the most. The next category  is going to benefit greatly with the integration of Augmented Reality in the medical practices is that of the patients. For them, Augmented Reality should make each and every process, right from the point of infection to the aftercare once they leave the hospital , highly comprehensible. Also each and every patient will have complete access to the multi-sensory Augmented Reality(AR) demonstration that will ease them into the entire treatment process. In dental care, Usual dental procedures can be made a lot simpler for the clients and the patients as well with the help of Augmented Reality. You already heard about the AccuVein AR app. AccuVein uses augmented reality by using a handheld scanner that projects over skin and shows nurses and doctors where veins are in the patients’ bodies. EyeDecide is one of the medical app, which uses the camera display for simulating the impact of specific conditions on a person’s vision. Using apps like EyeDecide, doctors can show simulation of the vision of a patient . The app can demonstrate the impact of AMD and thus helping patients understand their symptoms and their actual medical state.