Augmented Reality in Healthcare / Viewer Discretion Advised
It’s been just hours since Apple’s iOS11 rolled out. I guess that it will take some time before everyone tries it and gives a personal verdict.
For me, the most interesting and intriguing feature is the release of ARkit. In a few words, “…a new framework that allows you to easily create unparalleled augmented reality (AR) experiences for iPhone and iPad”.
It truly allows the blending of digital objects and information, superimposed onto the physical world (the so-called Reality), the environment around you. The key factor is the ability to interact with that object and make it a vehicle for whatever the task at hand is, allowing the user to experience Mixed Reality.
As a surgeon, futurist and technology innovator, my passion focuses in the smart use of technology to improve how we do and teach healthcare and education.
As an ExponentialMed faculty, I know that there are really no limits to what we can do to with technology, and that the only true obstacle is our own creativity and imagination.
InsightHeart and the InsightBody project, are perfect examples of this radically different way of thinking.
This app, which just became available at the App store, is the result of several months of hard work by Animares, one of the best in the industry, when it comes to digital design, production, interactive medical illustration and especially, a clear vision of what our future could be.
Its not only a very different approach to learning the anatomy and physiology of the human heart, in a very clear and explicit way (Viewer Discretion Advised! ), but also an amazing tool to get a basic understanding of how the heart functions, in health as well as in disease.
This app is for the layman and for the expert, for the medical provider and the patient…especially for the patient.
With wonder, I can only recall the face of one of my elderly patients when she finally saw how her abnormally beating heart, with Atrial Fibrillation (AFib), contrasted with a healthy one. How she could get closer and “dive” inside it and finally understand what “Irregularly Irregular” means, and most important, the reason for her palpitations!
The haptic (“sense of touch”) of the new iOS11, allows the user to literally have the heart in their hand, feeling every single beat, as if touching living tissue.
Animares wanted to create more than a Mixed Reality interface; the goal was to have a tool that would be interactive, that would reflect some of the real, measurable physiology of the heart. Since wearable devices are so ubiquitous, it seemed that the best approach was to have the device “talk to the app”, so that, for example, your own heart rate could be translated into what you are seeing and feeling.
The versatility of the Health app from Apple made it all possible. One can literally visualize one own’s heart response to the exercise in an asynchronous way (we are working on real-time, synchronous streaming of the data!).
I invite you to discover InsightHeart and to explore how the ARkit platform can certainly help us radically improve how we understand our body and its fantastic functions.
I truly believe that the smart use of this technology can take medical education, of providers and patients (ePatients) alike, well beyond any prior standards. As @EeHRNsays, “bringing Hyper-realistic animation to the table will allow patients to see their health conditions and demonstrate effects of behavioral changes”.
I also predict that InsightHeart’s integration with wearable devices will allow for better engagement with the trackers and likely result in improved health and fitness outcomes for all.
For me, the most interesting and intriguing feature is the release of ARkit. In a few words, “…a new framework that allows you to easily create unparalleled augmented reality (AR) experiences for iPhone and iPad”.
It truly allows the blending of digital objects and information, superimposed onto the physical world (the so-called Reality), the environment around you. The key factor is the ability to interact with that object and make it a vehicle for whatever the task at hand is, allowing the user to experience Mixed Reality.
As a surgeon, futurist and technology innovator, my passion focuses in the smart use of technology to improve how we do and teach healthcare and education.
As an ExponentialMed faculty, I know that there are really no limits to what we can do to with technology, and that the only true obstacle is our own creativity and imagination.
InsightHeart and the InsightBody project, are perfect examples of this radically different way of thinking.
This app, which just became available at the App store, is the result of several months of hard work by Animares, one of the best in the industry, when it comes to digital design, production, interactive medical illustration and especially, a clear vision of what our future could be.
This app is for the layman and for the expert, for the medical provider and the patient…especially for the patient.
With wonder, I can only recall the face of one of my elderly patients when she finally saw how her abnormally beating heart, with Atrial Fibrillation (AFib), contrasted with a healthy one. How she could get closer and “dive” inside it and finally understand what “Irregularly Irregular” means, and most important, the reason for her palpitations!
The haptic (“sense of touch”) of the new iOS11, allows the user to literally have the heart in their hand, feeling every single beat, as if touching living tissue.
Animares wanted to create more than a Mixed Reality interface; the goal was to have a tool that would be interactive, that would reflect some of the real, measurable physiology of the heart. Since wearable devices are so ubiquitous, it seemed that the best approach was to have the device “talk to the app”, so that, for example, your own heart rate could be translated into what you are seeing and feeling.
The versatility of the Health app from Apple made it all possible. One can literally visualize one own’s heart response to the exercise in an asynchronous way (we are working on real-time, synchronous streaming of the data!).
I invite you to discover InsightHeart and to explore how the ARkit platform can certainly help us radically improve how we understand our body and its fantastic functions.
I truly believe that the smart use of this technology can take medical education, of providers and patients (ePatients) alike, well beyond any prior standards. As @EeHRNsays, “bringing Hyper-realistic animation to the table will allow patients to see their health conditions and demonstrate effects of behavioral changes”.
I also predict that InsightHeart’s integration with wearable devices will allow for better engagement with the trackers and likely result in improved health and fitness outcomes for all.
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