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- One potential solution to improve compliance is leveraging gamification and gameplay mechanics in healthcare. Gamifying treatment plans using a holistic approach can increase patient engagement and understanding of their care. Games can also provide a source of fun and distraction, which reduces patient anxiety and discomfort during procedures.
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May 7, 2019 · But combining behavioral economics and “gamification” — putting game elements such as points and achievement levels into non-game contexts — holds promise for driving behavior change when a...
Nov 21, 2023 · By integrating video games into healthcare, providers can empower patients, enhance adherence, increase knowledge retention, and ultimately improve outcomes. We will also explore nine success stories and case studies highlighting the real-world impact of healthcare games -
Jun 17, 2021 · Sidekick Health is out to show that gamified, digital therapeutics programs can help patients more effectively manage their chronic conditions.
- Ring Fit Adventure by Nintendo
- Reflexion Health by Relfexion
- CogCubed & Groundskeeper by Mit Media Lab
- Mango Health by Trialcard
- Monster Guard by Red Cross
- Mindmaze: MindPod by Mindmaze Labs
- Vital Signs by The Breakaway Games
- Touch Surgery by Medtronic
- Mightier by Mightier Team
- Puzzlewalk by Daehyoung Lee
Themes:Health and Wellness
Since the Wii, Nintendo have been pioneers in combining fun with a purpose - encouraging players to get up on their feet and get active in the comfort of their own home. Ring Fit Adventure is an exercising role-playing adventure game where the player uses the “Ring Con” and “Leg Strap” to control in-game movement. Players squat, press and flex their way through challenges designed for a wide range of body types and levels of fitness. Players traverse through an adventure and enemy-filled worl...
Themes: Treatment and Rehabilitation
Reflexion is an FDA-approved platform that allows patients undergoing at-home physical therapy to get the proper help they need to recover. All of the motion-captured exercises are monitored by real-life physical therapists in order to ensure the proper treatment and changes to routine are managed. Reflexion uses the Virtual Exercise Rehabilitation Assistant, or VERA, to facilitate lower recovery times and lower costs for patients. Considering the global shift in lifestyle preferences, remote...
Themes: Diagnosis
Following a TED talk on the application of the MIT game cubes for general entertainment, child psychiatrist Monika Hellersaw the potential for health gamification to create a new kind of attention deficit hyperactive disorder detection tool. While there are computer and written-based tests for this, most children or parents often give up halfway through the tedious tests and are often given false diagnoses. CogCubed aimed to create a tangible gaming platform to detect ADHD through simple game...
Themes: Wellness and Health
Mango Health on the surface seems like any other pill reminder and medication manager, a basic health app. But what turns this app into a gamification win for healthcare apps is the built-in reward system. While the app itself is extremely user-friendly and engaging, it is also free to use. This means the many features included in the app include an all-important drug interaction feature, which alerts patients to whether any of the medications they are taking interact adversely with each othe...
Themes: Training and Simulation
Keeping kids entertained while trying to teach them life lessons can seem impossible right? Not anymore. Monster Guardis a free app by the Red Cross that is directed toward children aged 7 to 11. In Monster Guard children go through the “Monster Guard Academy '', facing real-life challenges through gamified means and learning how to survive dangerous situations such as house fires, floods, tornadoes and even a pandemic through roleplay. The app also includes information packets that are easy...
Themes: Treatment and Rehabilitation
MindMazewas founded in 2012 with a sole pathway into the advancement of neurotechnology and how it can be used in healthcare, as well as other industries. What they call “digital therapeutics” is how they have helped Alzheimer’s, Parkinson's and dementia patients with highly engaging animation. MindPod, an immersive FDA-listed and CE-marked neurobehavioral platform based on evidence and prescribed protocols developed at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. MindPod is a dolphin imm...
Themes: Education/Training and Simulation
Developed by Breakaway Games, the game development leader in healthcare video games for the past 20 years, Vital Signs: Emergency Department is a medical game that recreates the stress and confusion of the emergency department. You play as the ER doctor, charged with handling difficult trauma cases. In the game, exam rooms will fill up quickly with patients, players are faced with the daily challenges of a doctor: seeing patients, staying on top of community issues, and running an office. Pla...
Themes: Training and Simulation
Touch Surgery is a digital tool used to train surgeons and, as a result, save lives by leveraging the power of AI, data and visualization. The Touch Surgery interactive surgical simulator provides a realistic guide to surgical procedures; allowing medical simulation trainees to learn procedures, test their knowledge and rehearse for surgery. The app has over three million global users and provides secure, seamless access to surgical videos and data. This applied game application features the...
Themes: Treatment and Rehabilitation
With Mightier, calming down is a game and learning how to regulate emotions is the goal. To play, kids wear a wireless heart rate monitor that pairs with our app. As their heart rate rises during play, the games get harder. Then, kids use calming exercises to lower their heart rate and keep playing. Mightier helps kids build emotional strength. Mightier’s biofeedback algorithm and external hardware takes challenging moments and turn them into learning opportunities. By practising calming skil...
Themes: Wellness and Fitness
Daehyoung Lee, an assistant professor of adapted physical education at the University of Minnesota Duluth, developed PuzzleWalk, a mobile game to help people on the autism spectrum get more exercise. PuzzleWalk is a free, spot-the-difference app that encourages physical activity within the ASD community by creating a correlation between playtime and daily steps. PuzzleWalk also uses behaviour change techniques, which consist of action plans and psychological determinants, such as self-esteem...
Oct 5, 2023 · Healthcare-related games and their adjunctive technologies (including virtual reality) are poised to provide great educational resources for doctors, nurses, and allied health professionals as well as patients and families.
May 19, 2019 · Playing doctor: The evolution of videogames in healthcare. As videogames have become mainstream and emerged from the dimly-lit arcade rooms of years past, gaming technology has found increasing...
Feb 21, 2023 · The future of healthcare education is fun and games. How gamification can make it easier for staff to learn and retain new information. Can a game of cards help improve patient safety and care?
