According to The Wall Street Journal, virtual simulations incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) are being used to improve health care workers’ bedside manner. Doctors, nurses and other caregivers in southern Maine are being trained in a virtual environment that simulates the conditions that patients with Alzheimer’s disease, cancer and substance addictions experience.
At the Hospice of Southern Maine in Scarborough, health care workers wear virtual reality headsets and are able to move their hands, pick up objects and get a panoramic view of the hospice setting as if they are the patient.