Utilization of Augmented Reality Visualizations in Healthcare Education: Trends and Future Scope

Augmented reality (AR) is a recent technology with applications in multiple sectors, including the healthcare industry. AR incorporates (or overlays) digital or computer-generated data such as audio, video, images, and contact or haptic sensations into a real-time setting. Innovations in augmented reality can assist medical personnel in diagnosing, treating, and operating on patients more precisely. However, healthcare differs from other disciplines because it focuses on something that is unique, unpredictable, simultaneously extremely complex, and fragile: The Human Body. This paper aims to comprehend the application of augmented reality and visualizations in medical and healthcare education and practice. The novelty of the paper is that in addition to providing an overview of recent successful augmented reality applications in healthcare, we emphasize that educational use of these in the present form (or after appropriate adaptation) provide benefits to teachers, students and working healthcare professionals. some of the key benefits are fast learning and better knowledge retention.