Online course delivered on 07/05/2022 at Marisiensis 2022. the International Scientific Congress for Students, Young Doctors and Pharmacists in Targu Mures, Romania.

1. HEALTHCARE
IN THE METAVERSE
Philippe GERWILL
Executive Advisor

2. 1. INTRODUCTION
2. WHAT IS THE METAVERSE ?
3. KEY TRENDS
4. HEALTHCARE IN THE METAVERSE
5. KEY CHALLENGES
6. Q & A
AGENDA

3. 1. INTRODUCTION
2. WHAT IS THE METAVERSE ?
3. KEY TRENDS
4. HEALTHCARE IN THE METAVERSE
5. KEY CHALLENGES
6. Q & A
AGENDA

4. Philippe GERWILL
• French citizen with >30 years industry experience in global roles
• Former Ciba, Novartis and Lonza
• Keynote and TEDx Speaker
• Executive Advisor – Fusion Consulting AG (Zug, CH)
• Executive Advisor – COSMOPlat at Haier (Shanghai, CN)
• Executive Advisor – ABrain (Tianjin, CN)
• Industry Advisor Healthcare – AllThingsConnected (Singapore)
• Member of the Global Advisory Board – WISeKey SA (Geneva, CH)
• Member of The Argonauts (Berlin, DE)
• Alumni Mentor for the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women (London, UK)
• Guest lecturer at the ESCP Business School (Paris, France) and the Utrecht
University of Applied Sciences (Utrecht, NL)

5. 1. INTRODUCTION
2. WHAT IS THE METAVERSE ?
3. KEY TRENDS
4. HEALTHCARE IN THE METAVERSE
5. KEY CHALLENGES
6. Q & A
AGENDA

6. What is the Metaverse?
“Metaverse” is currently a major buzzword in the worlds of
tech, business, and finance, and like all buzzwords its
definition is fuzzy, contested, and shaped by the ambitions
of the people using it.
The term was coined by Neal Stephenson in his 1992
novel ”Snow Crash” to describe a virtual world in wide use
in his imagined future, a 21st-century dystopia.
In ”Snow Crash”, the metaverse is a virtual-reality world
depicted as a planet-encircling market where virtual real
estate can be bought and sold, and where VR goggle-
wearing users inhabit 3D avatars whose form they have
freedom to choose.

7. These three elements — a VR interface, digital
ownership, and avatars — still feature prominently in
current conceptions of the metaverse.
But none of them is actually essential to the idea.
In the broadest terms, the metaverse is understood as a
graphically rich virtual space where people can work,
play, shop, socialize - in short, do the things humans like
to do together in real life (or, perhaps more to the
point, on the internet).
Metaverse proponents often focus on the concept of
“presence” as a defining factor: feeling like you’re
really there, and feeling like other people are really
there with you, too.

8. Some well-known movies around “Metaverse”
2009
2018
2021

9. The Metaverse is promised to be the biggest major tech
disruption to our every day's life since the smartphone

10. Which disruption looks bigger?
This?

11. Or this?

12. 1. INTRODUCTION
2. WHAT IS THE METAVERSE ?
3. KEY TRENDS
4. HEALTHCARE IN THE METAVERSE
5. KEY CHALLENGES
6. Q & A
AGENDA

13. Gaming

14. VR Gaming

15. Top fashion brands that already joined the Metaverse

16. New digital brands

17. Arts

18. 1. INTRODUCTION
2. WHAT IS THE METAVERSE ?
3. KEY TRENDS
4. HEALTHCARE IN THE METAVERSE
5. KEY CHALLENGES
6. Q & A
AGENDA

19. Healthcare in the Metaverse or the “MEDaverse”

20. Fitness & Wellbeing
• Health care vs Sick Care
• Preventive care
• Nudging
• Tokens

21. Virtual Gym and Sports

22. Virtual relaxation
Yoga
Meditation

23. Telemedicine
• Remote care – telehealth
• Shift of the point of care
• Virtual hospitals
• Medical diagnosis (visual
impairment, certain mental health
conditions, etc…)
• Virtual therapies

24. Mental health treatments
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
• Anxiety disorders
• Delusions
• Psychosis
• Hallucinations
• Eating disorders
• Etc…

25. Medical training and education
• Get trained on a simulation platform enabled by AR/VR/XR technology, risk free

26. Professor Shafi Ahmed

27. Medical procedures and surgeries
• Pre-operative planning & diagnosis process
• High accuracy, high resolution CT scans
• Augmented reality in surgical procedure (vein and
organs visualizer)
• Robot assisted surgery
• Remote surgery assistance

28. Spot TIM – 5G – il futuro insieme

29. Others
• Pain management to divert a patient’s attention
• Effective patient education independent of
language implications
• Digital twins (like a GPS of your body)
• Etc…

30. Pharmacies in the Metaverse

31. LIMOVERSE

32. 1. INTRODUCTION
2. WHAT IS THE METAVERSE ?
3. KEY TRENDS
4. HEALTHCARE IN THE METAVERSE
5. KEY CHALLENGES
6. Q & A
AGENDA

33. Healthcare data
Data Privacy
Data Security
Regulations
Ethics

34. Healthcare professionals & patients
Adoption
Adaptation
Resistance to
change

35. Technology
Hight costs
Access from everywhere
How to use a headset?
Seamless
Interoperability Scalability
Accessibility

36. World Internet Penetration

37. Seamless and easy to use…

38. MOJO Vision Lens

39. But don’t forget real life!
Metaverse should not be like a parallel world
but part of our life!
Like dreams!
Are dreams part of our life or not?
What are the impacts of dreams to our health?

40. And there are good and bad dreams…

41. 1. INTRODUCTION
2. WHAT IS THE METAVERSE ?
3. KEY TRENDS
4. HEALTHCARE IN THE METAVERSE
5. KEY CHALLENGES
6. Q & A
AGENDA

42. Q & A