medichips

Medichips are medical devices that communicate data between living and computer systems. In some ways, we have already begun the journey toward medichips with implantable medical devices, like pacemakers, with wireless contact capability and network communication. As the advancement of such medical machines integrates with scientific developments in wireless internet machines such as cell phones, medichips will evolve. Sub-page Holography paper covers additional information about these matters.

Virtual reality can be productively applied for medical instruction and study. Given the aid of virtual visual and kinesthetic systems, robotic simulated "patients" simulate the look, feel, and response of real patients for physicians who are learning how to diagnose illness and provide treatments. Advanced kinesthetic systems allow interns and residents to move their hands along with the recorded hand movement of an expert to learn the expert's technique. Medical schools can simulate a variety of simulated and/or robotic patients with unusual ailments that medical students would probably not otherwise see "first hand." In the area of medical study, virtual reality is used modeling at the molecular scale, drug discovery, genomics, and other virtual biology applications. Linked page Bi-directional Interactive Virtual Reality also covers these subjects.

Linked page Holographic Tomography also delves into these concepts.