Online course for the Health Tourism Development Center for Islamic Countries on January 10th, 2023

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Healthcare
in the
metaverse
Philippe gerwill
Executive Advisor

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agenda
1. Introduction
2. What is the metaverse ?
3. Key trends
4. Healthcare in the metaverse
5. Key challenges
6. Q & A

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Philippe
GERWILL
 French citizen with >30 years industry experience in global
roles
 Former Ciba, Novartis and Lonza
 Keynote and TEDx Speaker
 Member of the Advisory Board – DeHealth (London, UK)
 Member of the Global Advisory Board – WISeKey SA
(Geneva, CH)
 Healthcare Consultant – Tata Elxsi (Bengalore, IN)
 Executive Advisor – ABrain (Tianjin, CN)
 Industry Advisor Healthcare – AllThingsConnected
(Singapore)
 Guest lecturer at the University of Medicine, Pharmacy,
Science and Technology "G.E. Palade" (Târgu Mureș, RO)

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agenda
1. Introduction
2. What is the metaverse ?
3. Key trends
4. Healthcare in the metaverse
5. Key challenges
6. Q & A

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What is the
Metaverse?
“Metaverse” is currently a major buzzword in the
worlds of tech, business, and finance, and like all
buzzwords its definition is fuzzy, contested, and
shaped by the ambitions of the people using it.
The term was coined by Neal Stephenson in his
1992 novel ”Snow Crash” to describe a virtual
world in wide use in his imagined future, a 21st-
century dystopia.
In ”Snow Crash”, the metaverse is a virtual-reality
world depicted as a planet-encircling market where
virtual real estate can be bought and sold, and
where VR goggle-wearing users inhabit 3D avatars
whose form they have freedom to choose.

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These three elements — a VR interface, digital
ownership, and avatars — still feature prominently in
current conceptions of the metaverse.
But none of them is actually essential to the idea.
In the broadest terms, the metaverse is understood as
a graphically rich virtual space where people can work,
play, shop, socialize - in short, do the things humans
like to do together in real life (or, perhaps more to the
point, on the internet).
Metaverse proponents often focus on the concept of
“presence” as a defining factor: feeling like you’re really
there and feeling like other people are really there with
you, too.

7. Some well-known movies around “Metaverse”
2009
2018
2021

8. The Metaverse is promised to be the biggest major tech
disruption to our every day's life since the smartphone

9. Which disruption looks bigger?
This?

10. Or this?

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agenda
1. Introduction
2. What is the metaverse ?
3. Key trends
4. Healthcare in the metaverse
5. Key challenges
6. Q & a

12. Gaming

13. VR Gaming

14. Top fashion brands that already joined the Metaverse

15. New digital brands

16. Arts

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agenda
1. Introduction
2. What is the metaverse ?
3. Key trends
4. Healthcare in the metaverse
5. Key challenges
6. Q & A

18. Healthcare in the Metaverse or the “MEDaverse”

19. Fitness & Wellbeing
 Health care vs Sick Care
 Preventive care
 Nudging
 Tokens

20. Virtual Gym and Sports

21. Virtual relaxation
Yoga
Meditation

22. Telemedicine
 Remote care – telehealth
 Shift of the point of care
 Virtual hospitals
 Medical diagnosis (visual
impairment, certain mental
health conditions, etc…)
 Virtual therapies

23. Mental health treatments
 Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
(PTSD)
 Anxiety disorders
 Delusions
 Psychosis
 Hallucinations
 Eating disorders
 Etc…

24. Medical training and education
 Get trained on a simulation platform enabled by AR/VR/XR technology, risk free

25. Professor Shafi Ahmed

26. Medical procedures and surgeries
 Pre-operative planning & diagnosis process
 High accuracy, high resolution CT scans
 Augmented reality in surgical procedure
(vein and organs visualizer)
 Robot assisted surgery
 Remote surgery assistance

27. Spot TIM – 5G – il futuro insieme

28. Others
 Pain management to divert a patient’s
attention
 Effective patient education independent of
language implications
 Digital twins (like a GPS of your body)
 Etc…

29. AVALON - AIMEDIS

30. Pharmacies in the Metaverse

31. LIMOVERSE

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agenda
1. Introduction
2. What is the metaverse ?
3. Key trends
4. Healthcare in the metaverse
5. Key challenges
6. Q & A

33. Healthcare data
Data Privacy
Data Security
Regulations
Ethics

34. Healthcare professionals & patients
Adoption
Adaptation
Resistance to
change

35. Technology
Hight costs
Access from everywhere
How to use a headset?
Seamless
Interoperability Scalability
Accessibility

36. World Internet Penetration

37. Seamless and easy to use…

38. MOJO Vision Lens

39. But don’t forget real life!
Metaverse should not be like a parallel
world but part of our life!
Like dreams!
Are dreams part of our life or not?
What are the impacts of dreams to our
health?

40. And there are Good and Bad dreams…

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agenda
1. Introduction
2. What is the metaverse ?
3. Key trends
4. Healthcare in the metaverse
5. Key challenges
6. Q & A

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Q & A