Last Saturday, during the second day of the Digital Acacdemy intensive course promoted by the Italian Hygiene Societt (SItI) at the Phyrtual Innovation Gym, health professionals developed and tested virtual reality applications: functional prototypes to implement for focus on HPV, rubella, measles, chicken pox and mumps vaccinations [see news: Health Lab].
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN PUBLIC HEALTH
Rome, Phyrtual Innovation Gym
Dec. 16-17, 2019
Jan. 24-25, 2019
Programme [brochure, pdf]
The educational session was held by Gianluca Bombini, a Fondazione Mondo Digitale Coach specialised in new technology. In a short interview, Gianluca describes the issues faced during the course and its objectives: use the immersive technology of virtual reality to provide entertainment that will distract young patients from their vaccinations.
Rocco Guerra, Hygiene Coordinator at the Bari ASL, is developing a video that can be viewed through the Google Cardboard Visor to distract children during vaccinations and reduce their fear. His team is working on a range of evocative scenarios.
Anna Odone, Associate Professor of Hygiene and Public Health at the “Vita-Salute San Raffaele” University, reviews the challenges addressed by the second edition of the SItI Academy.
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