Abstract
The healthcare sector is expanding more quickly now that automation and digitization are progressing at a quicker rate. These advancements have given rise to creative models that create new opportunities for treatment delivery at reduced prices. The advent of the metaverse has attracted global interest as a cutting-edge digital environment with enormous potential to offer patients and medical professionals an extensive spectrum of health services. The potential of healthcare services to promote well-being and lifespan while simultaneously reducing the detrimental effects of sickness, injury, and illness highlights their important nature. Although the healthcare sector has developed swiftly, many issues still need to be resolved. These include the constant weight of lifelong chronic illnesses, growing healthcare costs, population aging, a lack of healthcare professionals, and a lack of resources. The metaverse might turn out to be an influential factor in this situation. It is the result of the integration of numerous cutting-edge technologies, including robotics, blockchain, quantum computing, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, and the Internet of Medical Devices. Using the potential of these cutting-edge technologies presents fascinating chances to investigate novel approaches for providing top-notch medical care and services. The metaverse offers fresh opportunities to enhance healthcare results because of its capacity to give patients and healthcare professionals lifelike experiences. This chapter provides a comprehensive examination of the primary healthcare enabling technologies, as well as the healthcare technological innovations specific to the metaverse. The necessity to bring healthcare services to people's living rooms has been prompted by these major challenges, which will be addressed in this chapter. This chapter will draw attention to the current literature, which addresses healthcare-related problems based on healthcare using the metaverse. The study offers prospective solutions as well as an identification of potential problems and obstacles when integrating the metaverse into healthcare, and future research directions are also discussed.