5 examples of the utilization of technology in the health field, ranging from Therapy To cancer treatment

Now, technology has touched various fields and can help meet various needs, ranging from transportation needs with the presence of Bluebird, ease of shopping with the mushrooming of marketplaces such as Amazon and Alibaba, until now reaching the medical world.

The outside is usually, the utilization of technology in the health field uses advanced technology and relatively new such as Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR).

Here are 7 examples of the utilization of technologies ranging from to therapy and treatment of cancer:

1. The healing Therapy of autism By AR glasses

For people with autism, the type of everyday social interaction that we think is underestimated can become a very difficult challenge to face. If not immediately addressed and allowed away these difficulties will continue to drag on even to mature and reach the working environment. 

Discuss company stub, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, creating a platform for Augmented Reality that can help sufferers of autism in interacting with others, discuss the smart glasses with tracking technology his emotions.

The system empowers me to get predicate as a platform of smart wearable ar glass is the world's first designed specifically to help the sufferers of autism. This technology serves as "coach digital".

Google can be run on the glass and provides a range of games – with a focus on helping those who suffer from autism in developing skills that are important in life.

AR technology in the health field has a set of applications. For example, in an emotional Guess oriented on children, the player must identify the emotions that fruit in others now and then happens to match it with emoji. 

Emotions in the process by using the smart glasses facial-recognition technology are cutting-edge, so players can learn based on real people, not his pen.

2. Alzheimer's Treatment with the technology of Virtual Reality

Virtual Reality (VR) has become a trend, especially in the entertainment industry, more specifically in the gaming industry, including Playstation which now has its own PS VR. And what about the use of technology in the health sector? Doctors at the Visiting Angels Hospital are now using Virtual Reality for the treatment of Alzheimer's.

Larry Meigs as the CEO of the HOSPITAL Visiting Angels greets with the goodwill of the Group technology in the health sector to help seniors can live with easier, particularly for Alzheimer's sufferers.

Impact of VR is visible, though in ways that are limited in how some advocates and their current status are diagnosed and treat the disease. Here are a few pictures about a group of Virtual Realities in influencing the future treatment of Alzheimer's and dementia.

Alzheimer's has become very easy to detect thanks to VR technology. In October last year, Alzheimer's care scientists from Germany published a study in which they used a virtual maze to help detect Alzheimer's.In the study, scientists tested the people aged between 18 and 30 years old and have them try to navigate a maze of VR.

Amazingly, this test proved successful. On the basis of their difference in motion, scientists are able to identify the body of Accurate days has genetic markers for Alzheimer's. 

This means that with the help of VR, scientists can diagnose high-risk patients even that is still 18 years old though, allows families to plan for the treatment of Alzheimer are in the future.

Alzheimer's care professionals have tested and treated Alzheimer's using VR.

One of the experiments, carried out in the year 2014, using Microsoft's Kinect technology to create a relaxing scene such as the sunlit forest is Alzheimer's sufferers are able to interact with the scene such.

In addition, there is also a more recent experiment. 

This type of treatment is called "sensory therapy," which has advantages in terms of safety and therapeutic use. Usually, it's too risky to introduce Alzheimer's sufferers to a particular environment, no matter how comfortable and soothing. 

But with VR, Alzheimer's treatment professionals have been able to build a relaxing environment where patients are completely safe and comfortable.

One interesting possibility is the creation of a virtual environment that reminds patients of Alzheimer's about their childhood. Even it is possible to create an environment that is customized for each patient, introducing music or detail that is very soothing.

3. the Imaginary Friend Society, the AR Application For child cancer Sufferers

An Imaginary Friend Society present to entertain the kids with cancer. Remember not all people especially children can get through cancer treatment with quite unruly, expected the presence of this application can help them to be more powerful underwent rehabilitation and healing process.

Applications of Imaginary Friends Society was born over the collaboration between Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation, a non-profit organization that is responsible for the health of children suffering from cancer, with technology company Kika.

"Brain tumors are the most common cancers that occur in between the ages of 0-14," said Bill Hu, CEO of Kika Tech.

A diagnosis of cancer is a scary thing for anyone, but for children, it can be even more frightening again. 

They are bombarded with terminology and procedures that are intimidating and are not known. Things like radiation, hair loss,  chemotherapy, blood transfusions,and surgery. That's where the Imaginary Friend Society was present.

Imaginary Friends Society, entertaining children with cancer through cute monster characters displayed on the screen. Existing characters created seem to appear in the real world with the technology of Augmented Reality (AR).

The Imaginary Friend Society is technology in the health field who can help young patients understand the various aspects of cancer in a way that is lighter. 

Through a series of 22 short animated films, Imaginary Friend Society explains various complicated cancer topics in a way that is comprehensible to children. Because the more they understand about their care, then the not scary things.

In the meantime, there are films that are made to help children understand medical terms that are foreign to them. The film also describes the stages of treatment that must be traversed with cancer.

Entertainment judged as needed to help children get through treatment. Site Creativity, May 23, 2018, calling it based on a survey conducted by the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation earlier this year. The results of the survey mentioned that anxiety is the biggest problem for a child who is diagnosed with cancer.

Monster characters can say various sentences of motivation. "You are stronger than you know", "believe in yourself", and "don't give up, son", are some of them.

Since its launch, the Imaginary Friend Society has a tremendous impact on helping families and children worldwide face a diagnosis of cancer.

You can get this application by downloading it on the App Store for iOS and Android Store to Play.

4. Treating addiction to illegal drugs

Researchers at the University of Houston using the technology of Virtual Reality (VR) to explore innovative methods in addiction treatment against illegal drugs.

When a person with an addiction to participate in this program, they put up a virtual reality headset and navigating through the various scenarios. 

The user is taken to a fully immersive environment based on the environment of their drug use, its location can be at the party House, a private home or in a club. 

For alcoholism, could use a simulation of the bar. For users of heroin, the details may include an open pizza box or spoon and a shot on the table designed to trigger the desire to consume heroin.

Basically, the technology in the health field this is an expansion of therapeutic exposure for various psychological disorders, providing a virtual environment that is as close as possible to the real environment allows users to teach them how to hold an uncomfortable feeling that trigger the use of the substance.

The more immersive the environment, the more useful therapeutic tool as a function anyway. What is the music in the background is appropriate? Whether scent kissed realistically? Do people speak and looks as expected by the patient? the objects in a virtual environment can be touched, with patients able to touch objects such as giver of drugs without actually using illicit substances in it.

Technology in the health field which one is not intended to replace the comprehensive addiction treatment, further to the addition of tools to complete the treatment.

Craving some is a physiological and psychological part. Virtual reality cannot Setup will be able to put out the physiological aspect, but expected can allow patients to hold their psychological cravings. 

And the results in May, of course, are not instant because it requires a process.

The expectation of the use of technology in the health field this is so that people with addictions will be able to learn how to examine the desirability and manage it correctly in a controlled virtual reality scenario, so when the desire arises in a real environment so they have a choice not to give in to the urge to use it.

Of course, learning to hold the desire is simply part of the recovery, and it is important to master. Addiction is a complex disease that requires treatment at various levels over the span quite a long time. 

A comprehensive treatment approach at Lakeview Health aims to address not only substance abuse but also its underlying causes.

5. Overcome Phobias With AR Technology

Arachnophobia is the technical term for the fear of spiders. In Indonesia, there are no spiders that threaten the safety of humans, however many people panicked when saw it. 

Their bodies react with heart palpitations, chills, sweating, dizziness, and shortness of breath. 

Sometimes psychological pressure is so great, the fear is so wonderful, so sufferers of phobias have to undergo therapy for phobias. 

Exposure therapy, which involves confronts patients with one or more real spiders, are considered very effective. However, phobia sufferers often do not benefit from such treatment, either because of exposure to these eight-legged creatures too daunting for facing or because of the lack of options available in the phobia therapy where they live.

In the project "DigiPhobie", researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering IBMT is working to fix the problem, working with Promotion Software GmbH, Saarland University, and Saarland University Medical Center. 

They developed the technology in the health field by constructing a new type of digital therapy system is designed to allow for exposure therapy in a household environment. It is based on the idea that by facing the dreaded objects in virtual reality or augmented reality, patients will find it easier to confront their fears. 

This system comprises a digital sensor, a therapeutic environment that can be used and glasses of augmented reality (AR).

All tasks digitally simulated phobia therapy. 

Sufferers of phobias can perform various challenges – such as arresting spiders with glasses and postcards or touch it with their fingers – in virtual reality, "said Dr. Frank Ihmig, scientists at the Fraunhofer IBMT, describing the therapeutic approach. 

Ihmig and his team create software for the management and control systems of biofeedback therapy, which consists of a sensor that can be worn to measure the vital parameters of patients during the session, such as the variability of heart rate, skin conductance, and rate breathing.

Of the parameter being measured, it is possible to extract features that indicate emotional distress. 

Using the features of this stress, the researchers trained a machine learning algorithm. Game elements such as the size, the number, and distance of a spider, an arachnid movement, behavior can be adjusted dynamically. 

Imagine, for example, that therapy can be applied to other phobias such as a fear of snakes or cockroaches.

It is remarkable that the technology could be the solution to treat psychological illness to treat a particular ailment, is expected in the future more and more inroads made in the use of technology for the treatment and therapy other types of disease, that technology doesn't merely have an impression of "sophisticated" only, but can also be helpful to save many lives.

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