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MedVR Education

MedVR Education offers virtual patient conversations and immersive clinical skills training. AI-Humans lets faculty create patient cases, customize assessment rubrics and review conversation logs. Learners speak with responsive virtual patients and receive automated feedback on their interactions. Cases can run in a browser or in VR, while MedVR Ed Connect lets participants join sessions from a computer.

The broader library covers nursing procedures, emergency care, pediatrics and other clinical topics, with individual and multiplayer practice. A management platform assigns content and tracks learner progress. Sonoran University uses AI-Humans in its naturopathic medicine program, and Texas Children's Hospital developed infection prevention training with MedVR. NBME acquired the platform in 2024, retaining the MedVR Education brand.

AI Health Index verifiedOctober 14, 2026
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Founded
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Headquarters
Philadelphia, PA
Website
medvr.education
Categories
workforce-and-training
Indexed Products
AI-Humans, MedVR Education XR Platform, MedVR Ed Connect, XR Nursing Curriculum
Buyer Segments
Nursing schools, Medical education programs, Hospital educators, Clinical skills training organizations
Assessment

Capability Axes

An AI Health Index grade measures what a buyer can verify from public sources on the date shown. It is not a rating of how good the product is. A vendor can build an excellent system and grade low on an axis because it publishes nothing an outsider can check. How grades read

AI Capability
AI Centrality
BB on AI CentralityThe model is the engine of a core module. The platform carries other value, but this capability does not exist without it.
Vendor Published

AI-Humans uses learned language and speech capabilities for interactive patient encounters and automated feedback. These functions sit within a wider XR library and training management platform that also provides procedural simulations, content delivery and learner administration.

Autonomy and Oversight Model
BB on Autonomy and Oversight ModelThe oversight structure is described and one part is missing, commonly the threshold at which the system stops or what happens after it is wrong.
Vendor Published

Faculty create cases and set assessment rubrics, while learners can practice independently and receive immediate automated feedback. Conversation logs support later instructor review. No threshold specifies when the system must stop or refer questionable feedback to faculty.

Model and Technology Transparency
BB on Model and Technology TransparencyThe approach or the suppliers are named without the version and update discipline behind them. Naming a supplier is the entry to this band both here and on Model Supply Chain Disclosure, which ask different questions of the same disclosure: who receives the data, and what produces the output.
Peer Reviewed Publication

The 2026 BMC Medical Education study identifies a generative transformer language model trained by MedVR for virtual patient dialogue and feedback. The underlying base model, training corpus and production version change process are unspecified.

Model Supply Chain Disclosure
CC on Model Supply Chain DisclosureThe architecture is described and no model provider is named. Naming a hosting provider alone does not lift a record out of this band. Record the host in the note, because it matters for residency and breach scope, and grade on the model layer, which is the question this axis is named for.
Peer Reviewed Publication

The 2026 BMC Medical Education study identifies MedVR as training the dialogue model. That does not identify any underlying model supplier, speech service or hosting chain, or establish which outside parties receive learner conversations.

Clinical and Operational Evidence
AA on Clinical and Operational EvidencePeer reviewed or independently evaluated performance, prospective and multi site where the claim requires it, with the method available to read. The grade describes the strength of the evidence, not its direction: a rigorous study that found no benefit grades by its design, and the note leads with what it found.
Peer Reviewed Publication

A July 2026 BMC Medical Education randomized study of 87 learners found no overall advantage over video training. Four MedVR sessions improved perceived competence and confidence but not knowledge. Outcomes were largely self reported, with substantial dropout before the final sample.

AI Safety and PHI Stewardship
CC on AI Safety and PHI StewardshipGeneral assurances of privacy and security that do not answer the questions artificial intelligence raises: what is retained, what reaches a model, and what happens to it there.
Vendor Published

Learner completion records and virtual patient transcripts are retained under NBME's purpose based privacy policy. Retention is not fixed for these records, and model training use is unspecified. Procedures for handling unsafe generated feedback are also unclear.

Regulatory and Compliance
HIPAA and BAA Posture
BB on HIPAA and BAA PostureBusiness associate status is stated and supported by a substantive privacy document, with the agreement or its scope not fully published. For a vendor outside the United States, an equivalent regime documented to this depth grades here. A vendor whose product does not process protected health information grades here too when it says so plainly and explains the scope, with a service privacy document behind it: stating a position a buyer can rely on is the posture this axis grades, and the band above is closed to it because there is no agreement to publish.
Vendor Published

Hospital customers can request a BAA, and HIPAA handling is claimed for clinical content. NBME's service privacy notice explicitly covers MedVR learner records and transcripts. The agreement text and subcontractor obligations remain unavailable.

Security Certifications and Trust Center
DD on Security Certifications and Trust CenterControls are asserted with nothing independent behind them, or nothing is published. Read the note before concluding anything: this is the grade most often corrected on a second pass, because assurance material frequently sits on a parent domain or inside an old announcement rather than on the product pages.
Vendor Published

Account permissions, OAuth authentication and encryption support access control and data protection. NBME also commits to administrative, technical and physical safeguards. No independent security attestation with a defined MedVR application scope accompanies these controls.

FDA and Regulatory Status
CC on FDA and Regulatory StatusNo device claim is made and the product is scoped accordingly. Most administrative and operational products sit here and are not penalized for it, because this axis grades the appropriateness of the positioning rather than possession of a clearance.
Vendor Published

MedVR supports education through simulated patient encounters and procedural practice. Learners rehearse clinical reasoning and communication in a training environment. The product does not claim to diagnose or treat real patients as a medical device.

AI Governance and Bias Disclosure
BB on AI Governance and Bias DisclosureA governance framework with named process behind it, such as certification to an artificial intelligence management standard, or material written for a customer own review committee to evaluate the product with. A framework covering the vendor whole portfolio counts when its scope reaches this product; what it cannot supply is the product specific evaluation the band above asks for. Published results within the one group where the performance of this product is most at risk also sit here: evaluation on the question this axis asks, short of the comparison across groups the band above requires. A medical device clearance or certification, and the quality system behind it, does not reach this band on its own; it is graded under regulatory status. A regulator reviewed plan governing how the model may change does reach it.
Vendor Published

NBME checks patient characteristics for medical relevance across its assessment content. In a 2026 BMC Medical Education study, a psychotherapist also compared automated feedback on four sessions. That limited comparison does not establish performance across patient or language groups.

AI Liability and Recourse
BB on AI Liability and RecourseA published falsifiable commitment, or a real correction route the affected person can exercise against the vendor. A published error rate with its method and denominator grades here. A statutory right that runs to the covered entity rather than to the vendor does not reach this band on its own: every other route here asks something of the vendor, and being located in a particular jurisdiction is not conduct.
Vendor Published

Learners can contact MedVR directly to verify, modify or request deletion of their completion records and virtual patient transcripts. This provides a vendor correction route for retained data, without a guarantee that generated clinical feedback is accurate.

Integration and Deployment
EHR and Interoperability Depth
BB on EHR and Interoperability DepthNamed systems with read access or one directional writing, or standards support with named deployments behind it.
Vendor Published

Hospital plans name HealthStream integration, while the XR platform supports xAPI, LTI and custom APIs for learning systems. These connections concern training administration and learner records. A clinical EHR connection and detailed production data directions are not established.

Deployment Model and Data Residency
BB on Deployment Model and Data ResidencyOptions and residency are stated with isolation or the processing path left open.
Vendor Published

Training runs on headsets and through web or desktop access, with centralized administration. NBME's privacy policy places personal information processing and storage in the US. Tenant isolation and the complete processing route for generated conversations are unspecified.

Commercial
Commercial Transparency
CC on Commercial TransparencyNo price is published and the posture is discoverable: a buyer can establish how the product is sold and what drives the cost before contacting the vendor. Most of the index sits here.
Vendor Published

The main offer is an annual subscription with unlimited sessions and a demo led purchase process. Institution and hospital plans require a quote. Institution size and deployment scope shape the package, without a stated license price.

Setting and Specialty Coverage
BB on Setting and Specialty CoverageCoverage is named with validation behind part of it.
Vendor Published

The library spans nursing, emergency care, pediatrics, mental health and procedural skills. Texas Children's Hospital uses infection prevention training, and Sonoran University deploys virtual patient encounters. These examples support selected uses rather than validation of every specialty collection.

Commercial

Pricing

Vendor-published figures are labeled as such. Figures labeled “Estimated” are derived from third-party sources and have not been confirmed by the vendor.

Entry Price Pricing Basis BAA Tier Implementation Source
Custom quote
 Annual subscription; institution and enterprise packages quoted by scope. BAAs are offered on request to hospital system customers. Onboarding support is included in the plan description; no implementation amount confirmed for the main offer. Vendor Published

The main offer includes unlimited sessions. No numeric license price is stated.