For doctors at Riley Hospital’s Fetal Care Center, patient and family education is a top priority. They recently partnered with IU Health’s 3D innovation lab to create a virtual model to help families better understand the difficult diagnosis of congenital diaphragmatic hernia. “We worked with the artists here on a lot of different ideas. We did it over and over again… to make it as realistic as possible,” said Dr. David Gray, doctor Riley Children’s pediatric surgery said. “It’s been invaluable to be able to use the technology all around us to be able to specifically design something that allows us to completely tailor it… so that we can help these families understand better. about what’s going on.”
