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Gamifying My Asthma Tests
One of the most amazing transformations using gamification has come from the medical field. Concepts using game mechanics are making their way into a myriad of medical interactions – and probably...
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CyberDoctor Gamifies Medication Regimen With Novel Mobile App
As patients take more pills, tracking that medication and staying on the pill schedule gets harder and harder. There’s no shortage of mobile apps that aim to help patients stick to the drug regimen....
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Dizeez Crowdsources Cures by Bringing Games Into Health Research
Playing a game could help uncover a potential cure for breast cancer, lung cancer or any number of diseases that have a genetic component. The game is called Dizeez, and it’s got some geneticists...
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Health Games Research: Leading the Way for Gamification in Health
From casual smartphone gamers to hardcore console and PC elitists, almost everyone plays games. It comes as no surprise then that with the popularity of games on an upward slope, groups have come...
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MalariaSpot: Gamified App For Malaria Diagnosis
How Gamification in a Mobile App Could Help Improve Malaria Diagnosis The competitive nature of people brought out by playing games has a new application in training people how to diagnose the disease...
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New Research Suggests Fitness Games Improve Long-Term Health
New Research Yields Evidence That Fitness Games Improve Long-Term Health If someone gave you the chance to claim a reward in exchange for boosting your physical activity, would you do it? It turns out,...
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MilestonePod: Running to Train and Win with Gamification
Training for a marathon feels like a lonely challenge for many runners, quietly logging in the miles. To alleviate this, Milestone Sports is launching a platform called MilestonePod for runners to...
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C8 Sciences Offers Alternative ADHD Treatment with Activate
Health Based Video Game Offers Novel Alternative to ADHD Drugs The numbers of children diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, have steadily increased in the last decade,...
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Integrate Popular Fitness Tracking Apps With NewU
Make Health And Exercise Into A Game With NewU App For IOS When asked what he did to stay in shape for his concerts, famous Van Halen front man David Lee Roth was rumored to have answered thusly: “I...
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Welltok Gamifies Employee’s Journey to Wellness
Welltok’s Gamified Wellness Platform Offers Customizable Health Programs It’s not an easy road towards achieving wellness for working adults. With day-to-day obligations and distractions, health is an...
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A Brief Overview of Gamification in Healthcare
Use of games in healthcare has become a focus among startup companies, largely concentrating on combining self-monitoring with games. The question remains if these new gamification products can lead to...
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Boosting Children’s Physical Wellbeing with Zamzee
Zamzee Gamification Software Turns Kids on to Physical Activity Health care experts warn that child obesity rates are rising to alarming levels. With the increase in obesity-related medical conditions,...
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Improving Surgical Skills with Medical Simulations
Studies Reveal New Ways Simulators Can Improve Surgical Skills Two studies are taking a fresh look at an old standby of medical education and game based learning: simulators. With growing focus on...
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Detecting ADHD Early with CogCubed’s Groundskeeper
Groundskeeper: An Innovative Game That Spots ADHD Early ADHD is one of those medical issues that come into the limelight more often than not for those diagnosed with the condition being over medicated,...
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Video Games Research Turns Into Physical Therapy for Stroke Patients
Video Game Research Reveal Opportunities for Application in Stroke Therapy There are two schools of thought on the best way to help regain the muscle movement and dexterity lost by those who suffer a...
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AssessMs: Diagnosing Multiple Sclerosis with Microsoft’s Kinect
AssessMs Taps Microsoft’s Kinect Technology To Diagnose Multiple Sclerosis When Microsoft introduced its Kinect motion-sensing camera, the technology brought a new element to console gaming. Kinect...
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VirZoom: New Gamification Startup Gets Physical!
VirZoom Combines Virtual Reality and Fitness Technology Gamification is about to get… “Physical, physical!” Ok, it may not be getting Olivia Newton-John physical, but one gamification startup will...
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Amyloids: Enlightening The Public On Alzheimer’s
Game Based Learning Platform, Amyloids Teaches About the Cause of Alzheimer’s Disease Alzheimer’s is an incredibly terrifying disease that has a detrimental impact on both the patient and his or her...
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EteRNA: Unraveling The Mysteries of RNA Molecules
EteRNA Leads Crowdsourcing Efforts To Help Scientist Better Understand RNA Molecules A game called EteRNA is being used to further research into how RNA folds itself into particular shapes. The game is...
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My Health, My Choice: Enlightening The Impact of Healthcare Cost
Pharmaceutical Company Turns Healthcare Cost Management Into a Simulation Game It’s hard to go a day without hearing news about the rising cost of healthcare. Prescription drugs are getting more...
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