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"I was at Peace": Orlando VA Uses Virtual Reality for Veteran Mental Health
U.S. Navy Veteran is living with post-traumatic stress disorder. He's now coping with his PTSD through the use of virtual reality goggles. Hear his story and experience with VA Immersive at the Orlando VA.
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Winners Revealed in VA Mission Daybreak Grand Challenge to Reduce Veteran Suicides
OxfordVR's gameChange treats severe social isolation common to PTSD, psychosis, and severe depression, and a precursor to suicidal thoughts and behavior. Through virtual reality, gameChange offers an immersive and scalable opportunity to treat Veterans where they are before a crisis moment.
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Inside the Effort to Expand Virtual Reality Treatments for Mental Health | Science| Smithsonian Magazine
At Western North Carolina VA HCS, VA has completed more than 450 sessions using immersive technology as a distraction tool to help decrease pain, stress, anxiety, boredom, and restless behaviors. So far, the response from Veterans has been highly encouraging.
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Employee Well-Being Centers and Cart
The Employee Well-Being Centers and Carts uses virtual reality to improve the lives of VHA employees. It garnered support through the 2022 VHA Shark Tank Competition and will now be implemented across VISN 21, Sierra Nevada VA Healthcare System.
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Virtual Therapy Shows Real Promise for Managing Phantom Limb Pain – News Center | The University of Texas at Dallas (utdallas.edu)
Phantom limb pain is believed to be caused by mixed signals to the brain after an amputation. UTD computer scientists developed the technology in collaboration with researchers at the Veterans Affairs North Texas Health Care System.
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Veterans receive cutting edge virtual reality treatments - VA News
Veterans receive cutting edge virtual reality treatments: The lines between the virtual and real world continue to blur, providing profound experiences and limitless opportunities that once only seemed possible in science fiction.
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Boundary-breaking Extended Reality Network grows and spreads new opportunities - VA News
Boundary-breaking Extended Reality Network grows and spreads new opportunities: Developing and spreading innovative extended reality (XR) health care tools for Veterans is actively being integrated into the fabric of Veterans Health Administration (VHA).
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Inside the Effort to Expand Virtual Reality Treatments for Mental Health | Science| Smithsonian Magazine
Inside the Effort to Expand Virtual Reality Treatments for Mental Health: Medical professionals are embracing the technology to help patients deal with PTSD, anxiety disorders and more
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VAntage Point: Virtual reality collaboration is transforming Veterans' health care - FedHealthIT
Veterans Health Administration Innovation Ecosystem and Wellovate announced the launch of a groundbreaking initiative using Wellovate's Waya Health platform to enhance the care provided to Veterans.
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Face of InnoVAtion: Dr. Anne Lord Bailey – VA News
Dr. Anne Lord Bailey: The boundary-breaking work transforming VA has never been more crucial to long-time VHA Innovators Network (iNET) Innovation Specialist, Dr. Anne Lord Bailey.
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Listen: How VA is Using Virtual Reality for PTSD Treatment (governmentciomedia.com)
How VA is Using Virtual Reality for PTSD Treatment: The agency is exploring the use of augmented reality for conditions ranging from anxiety and PTSD to chronic pain management.
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Waya Health to Lead Study of Virtual Reality Health Care for Veterans | AP News
Waya Health to Lead Study of Virtual Reality Health Care for Veterans: Wellovate LLC, a national leader in the clinical use of virtual reality (VR), today announced the launch of a groundbreaking initiative using its Waya Health platform to enhance the care provided to U.S. military veterans.
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VA's Extended Reality Network Expanding Across Agency - Nextgov
VA's Extended Reality Network Expanding Across Agency: There are more than 75 Veterans Health Administration sites using extended reality in some fashion.
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Frontiers | Effect of Immersive Virtual Reality on Pain and Anxiety at a Veterans Affairs Health Care Facility (frontiersin.org)
VA researchers published the conclusions of their year-long study on the impact of virtual reality distraction on acute and chronic pain in Veterans within the Veterans Affairs Health Care System.
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Nextgov: VA's Extended Reality Network Expanding Across Agency - FedHealthIT
VA's Extended Reality Network Expanding Across Agency: Launched last fall, the Veterans Affairs Department's Extended Reality Network is gaining steam and support among veterans and health care practitioners.
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VA Improving Delivery of Health Care Using Extended Reality Tech – Potomac Officers Club
The Department of Veterans Affairs is working to improve health care delivery by fielding extended reality technologies that can transport patients to places like art museums or beaches without leaving their hospital beds.
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VA Integrates Extended Reality Technology Across Sites and Treatments – Nextgov
As it works to innovate health care delivery, the Veterans Affairs Department is deploying immersive, extended reality technologies that can transport patients to an art museum, the beach, or elsewhere—without ever leaving their hospital beds.
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VA Implements Use of Extended Reality Tech to Support Veteran Therapy (executivegov.com)
VA is implementing technologies that would allow Veterans to virtually receive therapeutic treatment. VA intends to do this through the use of extended reality, which covers virtual, augmented, and mixed reality technologies altogether.
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Donation Of Virtual Reality Devices To GCVHCS Adds Innovative Rehabilitation Therapy For Veterans | VA Gulf Coast Health Care | Veterans Affairs
The Gulf Coast Veterans Health Care System recently accepted a donation of three virtual reality systems from Penumbra, Inc., to bolster Veteran kinesiology and occupational therapeutic activities.
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New Study: Virtual Reality Tech Helps Veterans Deal With Pain|Health Tech Insider
Virtual Reality Tech Helps Veterans Deal With Pain: Waya Health has announced a new collaboration with the Veterans Health Administration Innovation Ecosystem (VHA IE) Extended Reality (VHA XR) Network.
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Charles George VA leads virtual reality use for veterans | Mountain Xpress
Charles George VA leads virtual reality use for veterans: Caitlin Rawlins, innovation specialist for the Western North Carolina Veteran Affairs Health Care System, remembers vividly the first time that a patient at the Charles George Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center long-term care facility used virtual reality.
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Durham VA takes part in virtual reality-based therapy for veterans (cbs17.com)
Durham VA takes part in virtual reality-based therapy for veterans: The Durham Veterans Affairs Medical System is adding another medical innovation to their lineup of care.
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Virtual Reality at the US Department of Veterans Affairs: a Guest Contribution (vrforhealth.com)
Extended reality, particularly virtual reality, is at the forefront of disruptive innovations in the health care industry, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is helping pave the way forward.
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Immersive technology: Defining a new reality for Veteran health care – VA News
Defining a new reality for Veteran health care: How XR is impacting health care for Veterans.
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Virtual reality: Veteran on virtual trips around the world - VA News
Veteran on virtual trips around the world: South Texas VA uses virtual reality to serve spinal cord injury & disorder patients.
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Virtual Reality Comes To Birmingham VA To Better Veteran Experience | VA Birmingham Health Care | Veterans Affairs
Virtual Reality comes to Birmingham VA to better Veteran experience: Brittany Hinton, Birmingham VA Assistant Nurse Manager, participates in the new Virtual Reality (VR) training for the hospital discharge process.
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