Behavioral Virtual Reality (VR) Tool

• Allows interaction with real-world scenarios

• Elicits more genuine, valid responses to stimuli

• Suspends patient disbelief, allowing for more efficient diagnosis and earlier intervention

• Fosters a deeper patient engagement with behavioral therapy

• Enables more integrated coaching• Drives the patient to more readily

accept social/behavioral concepts

• Expedites intervention, leading to faster patient improvement

• Identifies more accurately the triggers present and the reaction to those triggers

• Allows the clinician to adjust personalized scenarios on-the-fly, escalating and/or deescalating the experience

• Shows progress over time by recording scenarios to pinpoint responses and related biometrics

• Helps the patient learn new skills and and how to practice them

Patient Benefits Provider Benefits

“What would you do?” A diagnosis and rehearsal tool for behavioral analysis using a virtual reality headset.

• Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)• Anxiety/Panic Disorders• Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity

Disorder (ADHD)• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)• Phobias (i.e. Claustrophobia)

Potential Clinical Applications

Today’s assessment is based on the patient’s imagination and the therapist’s clinical impression.

Tomorrow’s assessment is based on empirical evidence and ecological validity.

Tomorrow’s therapy will hinge on rewinding and reworking scenarios, and strengthening and adapting the neural networks.

“Imagine you are confronted with…”

Today’s assessment, diagnosis & coaching model

Tomorrow’s assessment & diagnosis

Tomorrow’s therapy & coaching

Virtual Reality (VR) Distraction

1. For a procedure or visit, patient selects a VR Distraction from a variety of relaxing and engaging immersive content.

2. Patient selects from a variety of relaxing and engaging, distracting immersive content.

3. Patient uses an optional game controller to complete tasks that require concentration and coordination, creating a further distraction.

4. Content can be specifically tailored for certain procedures and the needs of the patient.

5. Pain, discomfort and anxiety are decreased, reducing the need for pain medication while improving patient experience.

• Decreases awareness of pain and discomfort

• Patient perceives procedures as being shorter in duration

• Motivates appointment adherence; patients may even look forward to it!

• Reduces anxiety, improves mindset and attitude

• Reduces need for pain medication• Reduces transportation coordination

that’s needed with the use of stronger anesthesia

• Incorporates educational content, increasing patients’ health management knowledge and skills

• Improves outcomes and decreases costs

• Improves patients’ experiences• Reduces need for pain medication• Creates more pleasant patient

experiences and associations with procedures/clinics

• Prompts fewer appointment cancellations (patients have something to look forward to!)

• Differentiates practice in provider market

• Creates “buzz” • Enables providers to spend less time

accommodating “difficult” patients• Generates educational and branding

opportunities

Patient Benefits Provider Benefits

Making difficult procedures more comfortable, relaxing and enjoyable.

• Dental & Orthodontic exams and procedures

• Ambulatory procedures (stitches, surgery, dialysis, chemotherapy, etc.)

• Pediatrics (vaccines, shots, blood draws, etc.)

• Blood/plasma donations• Any procedure/setting that can cause

anxiety, fear or claustrophobia (dentist, shots/needles, MRI’s, etc.)

Potential Clinical Applications