PonderMed #1: Keith Grimes “The VR Doctor”

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Want more of Dr. Grimes?

Find him on twitter – @keithgrimes

Read his blog

Listen to his ‘Curistica’ podcast

Join his VR Facebook community – ‘VR Doctors’

The ‘5 ways’ of using VR in healthcare

1. Procedural distraction
2. Novel therapeutic modality
   An evidence-base is building in chronic pain management, and watch this space for Keith’s ‘PREVENT ITU DELIRIUM‘ research.
3. Novel diagnostic modality
   A great example is Vitae VR – dementia screening in the form of a virtual trip to the supermarket.
4. Education and training
   The Medical Realities Platform, founded by Shafi Ahmed (@ShafiAhmed5), is providing 360° video VR training to surgeons all over the world.
5. Breaking down barriers and delivering new perspectives
   Nick Peres (@MoorOfALife), creator of patientvr.co.uk, is pioneering the use of VR to deliver immersive patient perspective in healthcare education.

Here is a Curistica podcast where Keith describes the ‘5 ways’ in detail, and another where he interviews Nick Peres.

Important links

The #DigitalHealth conversation

Tiko’s GP Group

Google Glass. Keith has blogged about how he has experimented with it in clinical practice.

Skip Rizzo’s work on VR as a therapy for PTSD

Howard Rose’s work on VR as a therapy for pain

Types of VR headsets – Samsung Gear VR, Google Cardboard, Oculus Rift 

The Clinical Entrepreneur Programme, led by NHS England Clinical Innovation Lead Tony Young (@TonyYoung)

The NHS Innovation Accelerator

Podcasts mentioned at the beginning of the show (as promised)

Clinical:

• St. Emlyn’s Podcast
• The EmCrit Podcast 
• The RAGE Podcast

Non-clinical:

• The Joe Rogan Experience
• The Tim Ferriss Show
• Bill Burr’s Monday Morning Podcast
• Jocko Podcast
• RadioLab
• Freakonomics Radio

I hope you enjoyed Episode 1! Until next time.

Robert Lloyd
@PonderingEM

*credit to Ben Cave for podcast music, Alan Howard for podcast image, and Emilie Snaith for logo design