India Pharma Outlook Team | Tuesday, 28 February 2023
Medijourn, India's biggest healthcare facilitator and super aggregator in the global medical value travel industry, has announced a partnership with 8chili Inc., a deep-tech start-up based in California that is developing the underlying infrastructure for Metaverse content creation and dissemination. The strategic partnership is being formed with the goal of establishing a two-pronged initiative.
To begin, using Virtual Reality (VR) technology to provide patients with a personalised link with their physicians located anywhere in the world for a more engaging experience, thereby improving patient outcomes. Second, it will enable patients to digitally visit hospitals and take virtual tours of the facilities, allowing them to make informed decisions about their medical travel, treatment, and healthcare partners.
VR technology is revolutionising the healthcare business by incorporating innovative practises. From increasing surgical efficiency to treating mental health, technology is rapidly transforming healthcare functions across all segments, ensuring that its potential and effect are acknowledged. It has quickly reshaped the industry, allowing healthcare practitioners and patients to engage in simulated environments designed to improve medical education.
Because of its ability to provide immersive, interactive experiences, virtual reality (VR) offers new solutions to long-standing healthcare issues and opens up new avenues for patient care. Medijourn aims to significantly improve the patient's travel experience, reducing stress and providing access to personalised medical care even after the treatment. On this association, Shaaz Mehmood, director, and promoter, Medijourn said, “At Medijourn, we are always looking for solutions to improve and streamline the healthcare industry for a better patient experience and outcomes. We are excited to collaborate with 8chili, a pioneer in the field of virtual reality, to include VR tools into our continuum of care. VR technology will not only be transformational in delivering healthcare services and bringing together patients and healthcare providers, but it will also play a pivotal role in taking the Indian healthcare ecosystem global.” “We are very excited about this partnership with Medijourn as there is a huge potential that we see. At a larger level, we will work with Medijourn in the capacity to build skilled healthcare professionals outside India.
This partnership will also enable us to engage with patients in virtual reality as well as train nurses and doctors in the host country on basic and advanced procedures to deliver post operative care required by the patient” said Navaneeth Mohanan, Head of Sales, and BD, 8chili. The VR platform HintVR purposes personalized training needs for healthcare professionals ranging from surgeons, nursing, and paramedics. The platform is trusted by some of the leading education and healthcare institutions in the world for teaching and training students and staff, and engaging patients for pre-op and post-op consultation and therapy. Medijourn is India's largest medical value travel company, established with the objective of enhancing health systems and promoting continuous quality improvement and patient safety. The NABH-accredited company has 27+ global hub offices with over 40,000+ patients facilitated and 100,000+ queries handled of diverse nationalities.
The company aims to bring a paradigm shift to the Medical Value Travel industry through technology, robust systems and strategic partnerships with world-class hospitals. Promoting both clinical and traditional medicine, Medijourn hopes to touch 1 million lives by 2030 and become the "Made in India" global MVT company. The company’s digital application Medisupport adds great value to the overall journey of international patients as a technology platform for query management and other information. Medijourn aims to work towards creating an organized ecosystem for patient facilitation modules in the industry. 8chili is a San Ramon and Bengaluru-based deep tech company that is powering immersive training and engagement with the HintVR platform. HintVR makes it easy for anyone, anywhere to create, curate and distribute 3D content for education and training.
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