The healthcare industry is actively embracing remote training. As telecommuting becomes the mainstream of the new crown pneumonia era, any tool that can provide professional training services for companies in different industries can attract the interest of a large number of investors, which of course includes healthcare.
The VR medical training platform Osso VR recently announced that it has completed a $14 million financing. This round of financing was led by the US medical service giant Kaiser Permanente, with participation from new and existing investors such as SignalFire, GSR, Scrum Ventures, Leslie Ventures and OCA Ventures.
Osso VR is composed of members from Industrial Light & Magic, Electronic Arts, Microsoft and Apple. The VR training platform provided by this company aims to provide surgeons with an immersive environment and allow them to practice surgical operations under safe and controllable conditions.
In addition to providing a risk-free training environment and performance analysis, this platform also allows surgeons to practice to help bridge the distance, as well as observe and learn remote training courses immersively. In addition, it can provide one-to-one or one-to-many teaching settings in a virtual reality environment.
According to the company's founder Justin Barad (Justin Barad), the current market size of medical device education services alone is between US$3 billion and US$5 billion, and it is growing rapidly.
The development team said in July 2019 that at that time, more than 1,000 surgeons worldwide were using its software every month, and more than 20 teaching hospitals and 8 medical equipment companies in 11 countries adopted Osso VR.
This company mainly uses Oculus Quest headsets and has deployed them in 20 teaching hospitals in 20 different countries. The company stated in a statement that in a recent validation study, surgeons trained with Osso-VR improved overall surgical performance by 230%.
Ballard said: "VR can improve the treatment effect of patients, popularize treatment and improve training. Now the technology is maturing, and virtual reality as a platform is gradually growing. We will be able to solve a wider range of problems."
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