Stanford Children’s Heart Center - Virtual Reality Program
Pediatric cardiologists at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford are developing innovative ways to use virtual reality (VR) inside the hospital’s renowned Children’s Heart Center. This new program includes three separate projects that are currently being used within the Heart Center which leverage VR technology in distinct ways. All of these technologies and programs could potentially be adopted in other areas of specialized, acute care at Packard Children’s Hospital and elsewhere.
VR technology, which is popular in the computer gaming community, is available in only a few children’s hospitals around the world. Packard Children’s is among the first to establish a comprehensive VR program dedicated to pediatric care with this level of personalization and medical specialization.
“Virtual reality is one of the most exciting technologies that we can bring to bear for improved education and improved patient experience.”— Stephen Roth, MD, chief of pediatric cardiology and director of the Children’s Heart Center.