{"id":631,"date":"2019-06-03T21:46:27","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T04:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0066\/?p=631"},"modified":"2019-06-03T21:51:29","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T04:51:29","slug":"immersive-vr-in-healthcare-innovation-through-co-creation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0066\/immersive-vr-in-healthcare-innovation-through-co-creation\/","title":{"rendered":"Immersive VR in Healthcare: Innovation through co-creation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_680\" style=\"width: 1930px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-680\" class=\"wp-image-680 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0066\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2019\/06\/hand-in-hand-1686811_1920.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0066\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2019\/06\/hand-in-hand-1686811_1920.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0066\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2019\/06\/hand-in-hand-1686811_1920-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0066\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2019\/06\/hand-in-hand-1686811_1920-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0066\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2019\/06\/hand-in-hand-1686811_1920-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0066\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2019\/06\/hand-in-hand-1686811_1920-140x94.jpg 140w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1920px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1920\/1280;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-680\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Empathy: an innovative tool for healthcare disruption? Photo credit to Pixabay user truthseeker08.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-460 aligncenter lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0066\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2018\/12\/CC0-public-domain.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"88\" height=\"31\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 88px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 88\/31;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Are we being innovative enough as an organization? How can we support a more disruptive organizational culture? These are two questions that I have recently heard being asked by senior leaders in my provincial health authority. So what are they really asking and what is their vision for future directions?<\/p>\n<p>What I think they are asking:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">How do we use technology to the maximum of our capability to increase healthcare efficiency and improve population health?<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What I believe they should be asking:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">How do we support an understanding of our patient needs to the maximum of our capability, such that patients become co-creators of their own care design?<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why is the second question more innovative?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It supports user-centric, design-thinking (Stanford University Institute of Design, 2016; Crichton &amp; Carter, 2017)<\/li>\n<li>It requires maximal collaboration with healthcare &#8216;users&#8217; of all backgrounds and cultures<\/li>\n<li>It will result in the development of unique solutions as it connects numerous contexts and perspectives<\/li>\n<li>It places pedagogy, self-management, and patient experience considerations before technology<\/li>\n<li>It disrupts current power differentials and hierarchies, allowing unheard voices to come to the forefront<\/li>\n<li>It recognizes that care providers cannot build the best possible healthcare system while burnt out and sitting in silos (Neumann, Edelh\u00e4user, Tauschel, Fischer, Wirtz, Woopen, &amp; Scheffer, 2011).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lok, Ferdig, Raij, Johnsen, Dickerson, Coutts, Stevens, and Lind (2006) inform that all good innovations must start with good pedagogy&#8221;(p 185). Learning design for healthcare should consider strong pedagogical underpinnings instead of being designed primarily around the affordances of available technologies.<\/p>\n<p>For the past 8 weeks, I have been researching the use of Immersive Virtual Reality to develop healthcare provider empathy skills. The reason that this topic has been so compelling is that the central goal is to improve an understanding of the patient experience. The unique, desired learning outcome is directing the use of available technology. Developers are being led by the need for a better understanding of a human experience within the context of caregiving, to a technology that may actually be able to provide it. Instead of forcing the technology affordances to fit our needs, the needs of our patients and providers are driving a unique development. How better to create understanding than to immerse an individual in the &#8216;life&#8217; of another for a short, yet emotional experience? How better to make this experience accessible than to deliver it with the very devices that everyone walks around with inside their pockets and purses?<\/p>\n<p>I am hopeful that my research on the topic of IVR, as evidenced through my recent blog posts:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0066\/engaging-with-vr\/\">April 19, 2019<\/a>, Engaging with VR<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0066\/how-can-vr-affordances-be-leveraged-to-improve-healthcare-practice\/\">May 12, 2019,<\/a>\u00a0How can VR Affordances be leveraged to improve healthcare practice?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0066\/immersive-vr-in-healthcare-training-tool-for-patient-centered-care\/\">May 26, 2019\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Immersive VR in Healthcare: Training tool for patient-centered care?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>and my upcoming final paper for RRU MALAT LRNT 526 -Inquiry into Contemporary Issues in Learning Technologies, will help me create a framework to support a shift in the concept of innovation in healthcare. This framework will be supported by existing literature explored in the RRU MALAT Program highlighting the grounded and critical use of educational technologies.<\/p>\n<p>I welcome your thoughts on this conversation as I truly believe that the co-creation of a new era of healthcare is necessary to be truly innovative and disruptive.<\/p>\n<p>CB<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>References:<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1559620416704_35\">Crichton, S. &amp; Carter, D. (2017).\u00a0. Open School\/ITA.<\/p>\n<p>Lok, B., Richard, R.E., Ferdig, E., Raij, Johnsen, K., Dickerson, R., Coutts, J., Stevens, A., &amp; Lind, D. S. (2006). Applying virtual reality in medical communication education: current findings and potential teaching and learning benefits of immersive virtual patients. <em>Virtual Reality<\/em> (2006) 10:185\u2013195. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10055-006-0037-3<\/p>\n<p>Neumann, M., Edelh\u00e4user, F., Tauschel, D., Fischer, M. R., Wirtz, M., Woopen, C., &amp; Scheffer, C. (2011). Empathy decline and its reasons: a systematic review of studies with medical students and residents. <em>Academic medicine, 86<\/em>(8), 996-1009.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1559620416704_41\">Stanford University Institute of Design. (2016).\u00a0<a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/stanford.io\/2DwpMrJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A virtual crash course in design thinking<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are we being innovative enough as an organization? How can we support a more disruptive organizational culture? These are two questions that I have recently heard being asked by senior leaders in my provincial health authority. So what are they really asking and what is their vision for future directions? 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