Mobiddiction creates Patient Virtual Reality to enrich lives on patients in Palliative Care
Mobiddiction creates Patient Virtual Reality (VR) to enrich the lives of patients in palliative care
In consultation with experts, community organisations, doctors, and health professionals, Mobiddiction has created a virtual reality application currently being trialled in the Palliative Ward at Nepean Hospital. Mobiddiction partnered with Our Community Cares (OCC), a local Penrith, community-funded charity that supports the local community by providing comfort goods to those in need, and who sponsored Oculus Meta Quest 2 headsets for use in the palliative care ward.
Through a series of workshops, ideation sessions, and careful planning, we developed the Patient Virtual Reality experience for the Meta Quest headset with the end user in mind. The experience, along with content managed through our Mobiconnect ™ platform, is designed to help patients feel immersed in a calming virtual environment. We hope it offers positive distraction for patients facing challenges such as pain, mental health concerns, isolation, depression, and more, helping bring a few moments of joy back into their lives.
The virtual reality patient experience is one of its kind for Nepean Hospital, with a specific design and implementation for use in palliative care wards. We worked on this for months in partnership with community and professional organisations.
Mike Vasavada, Director – Mobiddiction
We are grateful to everyone who supported us, offered advice, and guided us along the way to help bring this project to life. This is just the beginning of what we believe can be expanded into many areas of digital patient experience, including mental health, post-operative care VR, chemotherapy and waiting area experiences, aged care provider VR, and special needs care settings that can benefit from virtual reality.
We are already in discussions with several organisations and care providers to extend the scope of the application and explore how VR can be used as an emerging—and now far more accessible—technology, thanks to advances in hardware and software.
Our platform is open to discussions with organisations interested in learning more about, or trialling, this technology. You can get in touch with us here.
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