Medicaid Equity Simulations VR Training Platforms

The Health Data Matters team of Scott Frank, Amy Sheon, Matthew Kucmanic and Alex Rothbaum have designed the Neighborhood Immersion for Compassion and Empathy (NICE) Virtual Reality Simulation to increase awareness of health care providers and staff regarding social determinants of health and create empathy toward individuals living in impoverished communities.

In 360-degree video, participants can:

• Experience vignettes of life in a segregated, distressed neighborhood with the challenges of social determinants of health (e.g. poor housing, lack of transportation, food insecurity, violence and racism)
• Discover statistics representing neighborhood characteristics (e.g. foreclosures, crime prevalence)
• Observe how social and economic factors affect health behaviors, health outcomes, management of chronic illness, and life expectancy

The simulation can be viewed through our VR headsets by appointment or we can offer the simulation to groups both locally and across the State.

Contact Ms. Lauren Wooster, NICE Project Manager, at neighborhoodimmersionsim@gmail.com, or call her at 302-492-NICE (6423).

The other two simulations in this series, produced by CWRU School of Medicine are:

Families Living in Poverty and

Addressing Bias to Improve Maternal and Infant Health Outcomes

NICE is part of the Medicaid Equity Simulation Project, funded by the Ohio Department of Medicaid and administered by the Ohio Colleges of Medicine Government Resource Center. The views expressed in this presentation are solely those of the creators and do not represent the views of the state of Ohio or federal Medicaid programs.