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Healthcare Frontiers in the Metaverse. Innovations and Impacts

  • Book

  • June 2025
  • Elsevier Science and Technology
  • ID: 6006259
Healthcare Frontiers in the Metaverse: Innovations and Impacts provides a deeper comprehension of the metaverse's revolutionary effects on patient care, medical education, and operational procedures in the healthcare sector. The book Includes both the fundamentals of patient experience, provider practices, and the overall framework of the healthcare business as the democratisation of medical education through virtual simulations and the individualised care enabled by AI-driven diagnostics. In 14 chapters “Healthcare Frontiers in the Metaverse: Innovations and Impacts” leads the reader to an introduction to, definition, elements, treatment and diagnostic in healthcare in metaverse, the next evolution in social connection and the successor to the mobile internet. It describes the role of robots and give a view on the future scope and challenges. " Exploration of Healthcare in Metaverse: Innovations and Impacts” serves as a road map for technologists and policymakers influencing the direction of healthcare as well as a help book for medical practitioners integrating metaverse technologies into their practice.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Definition and Elements
3. Wearables and Health Monitoring
4. VR Treatments
5. Predictive analytics and diagnostics in personalized medicine
6. Protecting Patient Confidentiality with Open Health Records
7. Simulated training environments in virtual medical schools
8. Metaverse Device Connectivity
9. Online Communities of Support
10. The Role of Robotics
11. Legal Aspects for Ethical Research Privacy
12. Case Study for Research Effective Applications
13. Future Scope and Challenges
14. Vision of the Metaverse in Healthcare

Authors

Shalli Rani Chitkara University Institute of Engineering and Technology, India.

Shalli Rani completed her Post-doc from Manchester Metropolitan University, UK in June , 2023. She is Professor at Chitkara University Institute of Engineering and Technology, India . She has 2 decades of teaching experience. She received Ph.D. degree in Computer Applications from Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar. Her main area of interest, Machine Learning and Internet of Things. She has published/accepted/presented more than 100+ papers in international journals /conferences (SCI+Scopus) and edited/authored several books with international publishers. She is serving as the associate editor of IEEE Future Directions Letters.. She received a young scientist award in Feb. 2014 from Punjab Science Congress, Lifetime Achievement Award and Supervisor of the year award from Global Innovation and Excellence, 2021.