The metaverse has reached the healthcare field and far from fiction it has come to improve the quality of the healthcare system worldwide. Some of the keys for artificial intelligence and technologies to improve the daily life of professionals have been the central axis of the proposals that Jose Martinez Olmosteacher from Andalusian School of Public Health (EASP), transfers to the health community within the framework of the National Congress of Hospitals and Health Management that is celebrated in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
Improve cybersecurity, give priority to the use of artificial intelligence in treatments and diagnoses and use technology to improve patient care These are three of the proposals that Martínez Olmos has transferred.
Improve cybersecurity
“Thanks to the metaverse we can have an alternative option that does more secure connection and more protective in relation to possible cyberattacks”, explains the EASP professor. Cyberattacks are more common than we know. Dependence on the network makes hospital systems vulnerable, which are easily hacked.
“The proposal that has been presented by Hospital Metaverso allows a connection outside the internet, a satellite connection that it is not dependent on a cyberattack and a network crash, in that sense It is a novelty to take into account“Martinez says.
training with artificial intelligence
Training in the metaverse is a reality that already exists in the most advanced hospitals in the world. “You can have professional training using virtual reality to produce in virtual operating rooms what may be interventions. This way professionals can formalize virtually without having to do it with patients and once they are trained they can intervene on people”, says Martínez.
If these new techniques were carried out, Martínez assures that healthcare might improve “because by incorporating artificial intelligence (AI), diagnoses are much more accurate. If the AI makes a diagnosis with the fundus, once the machine is capable of analyzing 10,000 million funduses, its diagnosis is much more accurate than that of a person who will never make 10,000 million eye fundsall this will improve diagnostic accuracy and will improve the quality of care”, and he continues, “in fact, many of these technologies are already being validated with the accreditation agency la EMA or la FDA because they are mechanisms that make treatment or diagnosis much more effective”.
take advantage of technologies
The metaverse also refers to the patients themselves being able to do use of technologies to avoid having to go to health centers, hospitals and physical consultations. “They can do clinical sessions that don’t have to be face-to-face, they can interact with patients at home using this technology, be more productive with the same resources we have,” says the EASP professor.
“This way doctors can care for patients in hours that are favorable for your life daily and professional and not having to physically occupy that space in the hospital, even reducing the risk that people have when we go to the hospital. We know that one of the problems of hospitals are the infections and the more we prevent people with health problems from visiting hospitals better for them“.
However, to achieve this digitization it is essential that society bridge the digital divide. “There will be people who will have to be helped so that they can use digital technologies and maybe even for them this model is not valid because they are not capablebut the population that today uses technology he is also old. There is a segment of the population where the answer is not valid, will have to be trained and if not, then it will have to continue as usual in those age segments“concludes the expert and one of the speakers at the National Congress of Hospitals and Health Management, José Martínez Olmos.
