# Metaverse for Healthcare: A Survey on Potential Applications, Challenges and Future Directions

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.04160 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2209.04160/

## Key facts

- Cited by 11 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 19 of its 222 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 9 Sep 2022.

## Builds on (most cited first, 19 of 19)

- [A Survey on Metaverse: Fundamentals, Security, and Privacy](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.02662/) (2022)
- [A Full Dive into Realizing the Edge-enabled Metaverse: Visions, Enabling Technologies,and Challenges](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.05471/) (2022)
- [Artificial Intelligence for the Metaverse: A Survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2202.10336/) (2022)
- [A Survey of Multi-Access Edge Computing in 5G and Beyond: Fundamentals, Technology Integration, and State-of-the-Art](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1906.08452/) (2019)
- [Blockchain for the Metaverse: A Review](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.09738/) (2022)
- [6G-enabled Edge AI for Metaverse: Challenges, Methods, and Future Research Directions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.06192/) (2022)
- [Security and privacy for 6G: A survey on prospective technologies and challenges](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2108.11861/) (2021)
- [XAI for Cybersecurity: State of the Art, Challenges, Open Issues and Future Directions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2206.03585/) (2022)
- [Computer Vision For COVID-19 Control: A Survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2004.09420/) (2020)
- [Exploiting WiFi Channel State Information for Residential Healthcare Informatics](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1712.03401/) (2017)
- [Blockchain for Edge of Things: Applications, Opportunities, and Challenges](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2110.05022/) (2021)
- [MetaChain: A Novel Blockchain-based Framework for Metaverse Applications](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2201.00759/) (2021)
- [Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data for Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic: A Survey on the State-of-the-Arts](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2107.14040/) (2021)
- [Edge-enabled Metaverse: The Convergence of Metaverse and Mobile Edge Computing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.02764/) (2022)
- [A Review on Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Everything (IoE) and Internet of Nano Things (IoNT)](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1709.10470/) (2017)
- [Toward Blockchain for Edge-of-Things: A New Paradigm, Opportunities, and Future Directions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.13049/) (2021)
- [Advancing Education Through Extended Reality and Internet of Everything Enabled Metaverses: Applications, Challenges, and Open Issues](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2207.01512/) (2022)
- [Big Data: Challenges, Opportunities and Realities](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1705.04928/) (2017)
- [Micro-Operator driven Local 5G Network Architecture for Industrial Internet](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1811.04299/) (2018)

## Built on by (most cited first, 11 of 11)

- [Prompt Engineering for Healthcare: Methodologies and Applications](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2304.14670/) (2023)
- [Blockchain-empowered Federated Learning for Healthcare Metaverses: User-centric Incentive Mechanism with Optimal Data Freshness](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2307.15975/) (2023)
- [Towards Ubiquitous Semantic Metaverse: Challenges, Approaches, and Opportunities](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2307.06687/) (2023)
- [A Survey on Federated Learning for the Healthcare Metaverse: Concepts, Applications, Challenges, and Future Directions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2304.00524/) (2023)
- [Medical Knowledge Graph QA for Drug-Drug Interaction Prediction based on Multi-hop Machine Reading Comprehension](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.09400/) (2022)
- [emrQA-msquad: A Medical Dataset Structured with the SQuAD V2.0 Framework, Enriched with emrQA Medical Information](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.12050/) (2024)
- [Metaverse Survey & Tutorial: Exploring Key Requirements, Technologies, Standards, Applications, Challenges, and Perspectives](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.04718/) (2024)
- [Unlocking the Potential of Metaverse in Innovative and Immersive Digital Health](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2406.07114/) (2024)
- [The Design of a 3D Character Animation System for Digital Twins in the Metaverse](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.18934/) (2024)
- [EgoEverything: A Benchmark for Human Behavior Inspired Long Context Egocentric Video Understanding in AR Environment](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2604.08342/) (2026)
- [Agentic AI-driven Immersive Simulation: A Knowledge-Aware Virtual Training Platform forHigh Dose Rate (HDR) Brachytherapy](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2608.08163/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

The rapid progress in digitalization and automation have led to an accelerated growth in healthcare, generating novel models that are creating new channels for rendering treatment with reduced cost. The Metaverse is an emerging technology in the digital space which has huge potential in healthcare, enabling realistic experiences to the patients as well as the medical practitioners. The Metaverse is a confluence of multiple enabling technologies such as artificial intelligence, virtual reality, augmented reality, internet of medical devices, robotics, quantum computing, etc. through which new directions for providing quality healthcare treatment and services can be explored. The amalgamation of these technologies ensures immersive, intimate and personalized patient care. It also provides adaptive intelligent solutions that eliminates the barriers between healthcare providers and receivers. This article provides a comprehensive review of the Metaverse for healthcare, emphasizing on the state of the art, the enabling technologies for adopting the Metaverse for healthcare, the potential applications and the related projects. The issues in the adaptation of the Metaverse for healthcare applications are also identified and the plausible solutions are highlighted as part of future research directions.