Our vision
TOMMI is a virtual reality gaming experience designed in collaboration with doctors and psychologists to counteract the feelings of anxiety and pain experienced by pediatric patients during stressful medical treatments. Our goal is to make children more comfortable during therapy by improving their relationship with doctors and facilitate the work of the hospital staff.
TOMMI consists of a fantasy environment in which young patients can interact and play using a wand and a magic book. An initial tutorial is followed by 4 play activities designed to relax, involve and challenge children’s skills, with an activity specifically designed to involve their parents as well (the latter requires a mobile app provided together with TOMMI). Immersed in the virtual environment, children are distracted by the unpleasant emotions of therapy, relaxed and made more collaborative with medical staff.
To be played, TOMMI requires a VR headset to go through the immersive experience of virtual reality. We take care of providing the most suitable headset in the final bundle delivered to the hospital, together with the pre-installed TOMMI application and the smartphone app necessary for the collaborative activity. Furthermore, our team will take care of training of the hospital staff on the correct use of the product, both remotely (online) and on site.
- Embodied Medicine: Mens Sana in Corpore Virtuale Sano
- Virtual reality for pain and anxiety management in children
- Immersive virtual reality for pediatric pain
- Virtual reality pain reduction
- The impact of virtual reality on chronic pain
- Effect of virtual reality headset for pediatric fear and pain distraction during immunization
About Us
TOMMI is a project developed by the digital health startup Softcare Studios. Our Mission is to improve the quality of life of patients during therapy and the efficiency of work of the medical staff through the advantages offered by immersive technologies, such as virtual reality.
Our team combines technical and healthcare expertise in medical research, biomedical engineering and software development, providing the skills needed to connect the challenges of the health sector with the opportunities of digital technologies. Active players of the International network in the health and well being fields, we can count among our partners leading companies such as Merck, Roche and Novartis, and innovation hubs such as TMCx (United States), Accelerace (Denmark) and Startupbootcamp (UK).
Selected in 2018 by the European Commission as the best e-health startup in Europe, we are now collaborating with a growing network of hospitals in Italy (Regina Margherita in Torino, SS Annunziata in Taranto) and US (UTHealth School of Dentistry in Houston) together with pediatric associations and foundations, validating the impact and potentiality of TOMMI.
About Us
TOMMI is a project developed by the digital health startup Softcare Studios. Our Mission is to improve the quality of life of patients during therapy and the efficiency of work of the medical staff through the advantages offered by immersive technologies, such as virtual reality.
Our team combines technical and healthcare expertise in medical research, biomedical engineering and software development, providing the skills needed to connect the challenges of the health sector with the opportunities of digital technologies. Active players of the International network in the health and well being fields, we can count among our partners leading companies such as Merck, Roche and Novartis, and innovation hubs such as TMCx (United States), Accelerace (Denmark) and Startupbootcamp (UK).
Selected in 2018 by the European Commission as the best e-health startup in Europe, we are now collaborating with a growing network of hospitals in Italy and the USA, together with pediatric associations and foundations, constantly validating the impact and potential of TOMMI.