June - 202019TECH OUTLOOKIntroduction, what are we talking about?From past 10 years, we've been talking more and more about XR (mainly VR and AR) and it's clear now that these technologies are revolutionizing in many fields, like retail, tourism or industries. Of course, we can also find XR usage in healthcare, and, for me, it is about to deeply change relations between patients, healthcare professionals and treatments.Today XR usesToday, principal uses of XR are focused on medical staffs. They are many tools for surgeons who have to perform very precise gestures. They can be trained before operations or be helped during it. For example Microsoft and Philips had shown recently the "operating room of the future" where Microsoft Holo lens allows people to easily see 2D and 3D pictures from various instruments. Companies like Gene tech use VR to train eye surgeons, to implant small device in eye. XR are perfect technologies to apply the precept "never on a real patient for the first time"! And it's not a hype trend, as the FDA approved last October, the first AR system for using in pre-operative surgical planning. But they can be also used beyond technical gestures, to help nurses to face restless or drunk people, like with the Medic ActiV training platform of Sim for Health. It's a good way to "feel" the real stress of the emergency service. With some applications like "The SUSAN Project" from Sage Publishing, it is even possible to "be" the patient to better understand his or her feeling, and of course it's also a method to develop empathy (the real value of healthcare people in the new "AI for diagnostic" time).For patients, XR is even more a revolution because we can use it today for things that were impossible just a few years ago! Reduction of drugs prescription in pain treatment is the most spectacular result for me. There are plenty of examples especially for children like at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles), at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital (Stanford) or with the Red Cross MINIDOCS application in Lyon (France). Of course, it's also useful for adults in many In an exclusive interview with Pharma Tech Outlook, Gregory Maubon, CIO/CDO of HCS Pharma talks about how XR has evolved in the past decade and what we should be benefited from this progress. XR in Healthcare: Simple Evolution or Amazing Revolution?By Grégory Maubon, Digital Coordinator CIO/CDO, HCS PharmaGrégory MaubonCIO INSIGHTS
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