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Medical simulation platform FundamentalVR raises $20M to help surgeons learn through VR

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FundamentalVR , an immersive simulation platform for medical and health care professions, has raised $20 million in a round of funding to “accelerate skill-transfer and surgical proficiency” through virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) applications. Big impact. “This makes the solutions highly scalable and affordable.”

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Nanome raises $3 million to help scientists get up close with molecular structures in VR

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But they have plans to use this new funding to expand into pharmaceutical chemistry, synthetic biology, and even education. Their next product update will feature what McCloskey calls ‘Spatial Recording,’ that will allow users to record their work for later review – basically a screen recording but with a VR experience.

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10 Key Trends of Digital Transformation in Healthcare in 2022

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Modern technical advancements in healthcare have made it possible to quickly handle critical medical data, medical records, pharmaceutical orders, and other data. In addition, pharmaceutical businesses can generate more effective drugs and improve medical research and experimentation using machine learning.

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Meet the 11 startups graduating from the Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator

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Virtuleap is a diagnostics tool that uses VR to help pharmaceutical companies evaluate the outcome of drugs designed to treat cognitive illnesses. The company then offers an AI-based assistant to further address individual and unique needs of the company. StartSure policies start at $25/month.

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Storytelling for CIOs: From niche to bestseller

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The late Richard Sykes, CIO of pharmaceuticals giant ICI in the 1990s and later a columnist for CIO magazine, famously scripted starkly different scenarios of the future of ICI for board members early in his IT role. Traquina at iProov foresees AI, AR, and VR making stories more immersive and engaging. “AI Why tell stories?

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Digital Therapeutics: How Software Can Treat Diseases

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In many cases, digital medicine deals with pharmaceuticals combining prescription medications and ingestible sensors. VR technology for psychosis treatment. The VR system called gameChange aims at transforming and improving the lives of people who struggle with psychosis by enabling state-of-the-art virtual reality therapy.

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Custom mHealth App Development: The Ultimate Guide for Businesses.

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Some of the up-and-coming trends are : Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML) Big data, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and chatbots for pharmaceutical firms are no longer futuristic concepts but rather an integral part of our reality.