SXSW 2020

Extended Reality = Better Doctor, Patient, Health

Description:

In this session participants will learn that in today’s world “ there is too much to learn,” – too much information, coming at us all too fast, and we need better ways to learn more holistically, experientially and with greater competency. The answer that is emerging is “eXtended reality (XR) technologies, including virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR). Here leading physician and technical experts will outline and discuss the emerging role these technologies have in health education – for the health worker, patient, family and related individuals. The breakthrough of XR will be discussed as relates to new methods of diagnosing disease, development of new enhanced therapies and preventative strategies as well. Use cases (the ER, CPR, etc) will be presented.


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Takeaways

  1. We live in an era of information overload, at the same time the means of learning has changed with less books & classroom and greater digital feed
  2. Extended reality technology allow greater immersion, physical imprinting & sensory experience to occur for a given use application = greater learning
  3. XR technologies are coming on strong as enhanced training tools for health, improved diagnostic methods and non-drug therapeutics with broad utility

Speakers

  • Randy Osborn, President/CEO & Co-founder, BioflightVR
  • Marvin Slepian, Founder & Director, Arizona Center for Accelerated Biomedical Innovation; Regents’ Professor with 4 professorships: Medicine & Medical Imaging, Materials Science & Engineering, Clinical & Industrial Affairs; Member, Sarver Heart Center and BIO5 Institute, The University of Arizona

Organizer

Misha Harrison, Dir, Creative Services & Brand Mgmt, The University Of Arizona


Meta Information:

  • Event: SXSW
  • Format: Panel
  • Track: Fantastic Future
  • Track 2
  • Level: Intermediate


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