«VR, especially immersive VR, draws heavily on the limited cognitive resource of attention by drawing the user's attention away from the hospital environment and the medical procedures and
into the virtual world,» said Gold who is also a professor of
Anesthesiology, Pediatrics, and Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.
Ambulatory centers run by small
anesthesiology groups, as well as urgent care practices, are other outcroppings that could be harvested
into hospital networks.