Xploro, reducing anxiety for young patients visiting hospital
Xploro® is a clinically validated Digital Therapeutics (DTx) application that uses augmented reality, gameplay and artificial intelligence to deliver health information to young patients, reducing the stress and anxiety associated with hospitalisation, improving health literacy and fostering better engagement with health services.
We started with children with cancer, but we’re building a health information platform for any patient, of any age, with any condition, anywhere in the world.
Xploro® is helping to reduce anxiety for children around the world and is in use in the UK, Spain, Switzerland, Singapore and the USA.
About
Information to prepare children for hospitalisation is poor at best and often non-existant. Yet we know that patients who are well informed prior to treatment experience reduced anxiety and that can lead to better clinical outcomes.
But lack of prior information doesn’t just impact the patient’s mental health and long-term health outcomes. When patients aren’t emotionally prepared this can result in procedures having to be repeated, longer appointment times, greater need for pre-procedural sedation, reduced adherence to medicine regimes and an increase in missed appointments – all of which considerably increases the cost burden on health services.
By putting health information in the hands of children, using language they understand and interaction paradigms that they are familiar with, Xploro® reduces anxiety and improves clinical outcomes. By preparing children for treatments Xploro® helps to reduce repeat procedures and shorten treatment times. By using gamification and rewards systems Xploro® allows clinicians to effectively capture patient-reported outcomes. And by improving child health literacy Xploro® provides the foundations for a generation of patients better able to self-manage their healthcare.
A research study has shown that children using Xploro® demonstrated a significant reduction in procedural anxiety as well as significant increases in knowledge about procedures and patient satisfaction.
Xploro is used on the patient's own device and requires minimal onboarding for healthcare staff.
