US 11,996,006 B2
Virtual reality platform for training medical personnel to diagnose patients
Anthony Betteridge, Lubbock, TX (US); Nathan Lloyd, Lubbock, TX (US); and Jordan Ketring, Lubbock, TX (US)
Assigned to VxMED, LLC, Lubbock, TX (US)
Filed by VxMED, LLC, Lubbock, TX (US)
Filed on Apr. 2, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/221,579.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/005,430, filed on Apr. 5, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0312833 A1, Oct. 7, 2021
Int. Cl. G09B 23/28 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G06T 19/00 (2011.01); G09B 5/06 (2006.01); G16H 10/60 (2018.01); G16H 50/20 (2018.01)
CPC G09B 23/28 (2013.01) [G06T 7/0012 (2013.01); G06T 19/006 (2013.01); G09B 5/06 (2013.01); G16H 10/60 (2018.01); G16H 50/20 (2018.01); G06T 2219/024 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, implemented by a virtual reality platform that includes application software, for providing a virtual reality environment for training medical personnel to diagnose patients, the method comprising:
generating, by the application software of the virtual reality platform, a virtual reality environment that includes a patient, the patient being associated with patient information that represents a first condition that the patient has out of a plurality of possible conditions;
presenting a differential diagnosis coach overlay within the virtual reality environment, the differential diagnosis coach overlay identifying a first plurality of conditions of the plurality of possible conditions and a likelihood value for each of the first plurality of conditions;
detecting a first user interaction with the virtual reality environment, the first user interaction identifying a first examination or diagnostics procedure that a user desires to perform on the patient in the virtual reality environment;
in response to detecting the first user interaction, accessing the patient information to retrieve one or more elements of the patient information that correspond with the first examination or diagnostics procedure;
presenting, in the virtual reality environment, the one or more elements of the patient information that correspond with the first examination or diagnostics procedure; and
in conjunction with presenting the one or more elements of the patient information that correspond with the first examination or diagnostics procedure, adjusting a score that is based on which elements of the patient information the user has discovered by interacting with the virtual reality environment.