While numerous examples exist of hospitals deploying the HoloLens to assist doctors, surgeons, medical professionals, and students while treating patients, California’s Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford is actually using the augmented reality headset to improve the patient’s experience.
The hospital’s Childhood Anxiety Reduction through Innovation and Technology (CHARIOT) program uses augmented and virtual reality experiences to help put children at ease as they undergo a variety of potentially painful or stressful procedures, such blood draws to surgical preparation.
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