SensAble Technologies, a company providing devices used in medical simulation, has announced  a substantial upgrade to their already existing shoulder and knee arthroscopy simulator - insightArthroVR. The new version of the simulator was developed with GMV, a solution provider from Spain.
insightArthroVR is a training tool, teaching surgeons the essential skills of triangulation, camera orientation, and [...]

Research and Markets, "World's largest market research resource", "+/- 375,000 reports", included in its offering a report named Virtual Reality in Healthcare 2008 - 2012.

Supposing that VR is an unavoidable element of all future technology developments, the company proposes to its customers a deep insight of how healthcare can benefit from virtual reality tools. The [...]

MediGait, a Haifa (Israel) based company founded by a former NASA researcher, released a virtual reality training tool aimed to improve walking ability in patients suffering from Parkinson Disease (PD) and other movement disorders.
A mobile phone (a big one, though) sized black box and a set of VR HMD glasses form the product, named GaitAid, [...]

University of Limeric, Ireland, is developing a training simulator that will help medical staff to learn the delicate procedure of spinal anaesthesia.
Spinal anaesthesia is a form of regional anaesthesia where the effect is obtained by injecting of a local anaesthetic into the spine (cerebrospinal fluid, more precisely). It is sometimes preferred to a complete anaesthesia [...]