There is also a wide gap between high- and low-income countries: countries such as the USA have more than 2.5 physicians per 1000 people, while countries such as Kenya have only 0.15 physicians per 1000 people, a number that is even lower for rural areas. According to World Health Organization (WHO) estimates in 2013, there was a global shortage of 7.2 million qualified healthcare workers, a number that will increase to 12.9 million by 2035.
Limited access to essential health services is a major problem in the developing world. Due to the rapid developments and falling costs of AR hardware, medical AR can also play an important role in helping with training and extending medical capabilities in resource-limited settings.
Medical augmented reality (AR) is a highly scalable technology that improves the capabilities of medical caregivers by guiding medical caregivers through diagnostic and treatment protocols and projecting relevant information directly into the medical caregiver’s field of view.
