Telus funding pilot program using VR to decrease anxiety, use of prescribed medication

Alma Hospital is testing a brand new digital actuality (VR) anxiety-management mission that goals to enhance affected person well-being.

The pilot will see members interact in “peaceable scenes and guided respiration workouts” utilizing immersive VR headsets. The objective is to enhance medical remedies and reduce the usage of prescribed anxiousness treatment.

The Quebec hospital has partnered with Paperplane Therapeutics to make it occur. Telus is offering monetary assist.

The necessity to deal with mental-health session is pressing, Jean Lamoureux, government director of the Fondation de l’Hôtel-Dieu d’Alma, stated. Session requests elevated upwards of 40 % throughout the pandemic; inflation and labour shortages are additionally growing stress ranges.

“Our basis is working arduous to be on the forefront of psychological healthcare and, because of the innovation of Paperplane Therapeutics and Telus, we are going to remodel the way in which well being companies are delivered, whereas having a major constructive affect on affected person wellbeing via the usage of expertise.”

The hospital can even trial the expertise in different departments as nicely, together with oncology.

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Supply: Telus