Case Study
Boosting confidence on the clinic floor
STORIES Enhancing medical training in the metaverse Boosting confidence on the clinic floor Copyright © 2023 Accenture. All rights reserved The dialysis machine training challenge Call for change What if new dialysis technicians can become acquainted with the ins, outs and movements associated with using the machine before they’re putting a lead in a patient’s arm? DaVita Inc., with the help of a team from Accenture, wanted to use the metaverse to offer its frontline caregivers virtual training that recreates real life scenarios with a digital dialysis machine—before interacting with real patients. Pioneering efforts such as this could be a game-changer for healthcare, namely enhancing medical training for everyone from home health aides to surgeons in the metaverse, or vir