Games for Health

Games for Health is having its Fourth Annual Conference in Baltimore, May 8-9.

Games for Health, a project of the Serious Games Initiative, asks four questions:

• Can games improve the provision, and quality, of healthcare?
• What existing and emerging game technologies (such as multi-user, virtual environments) might be particularly useful when applied to healthcare issues?
• How can we expand the application of computer-based game technologies to face key challenges in the healthcare sector?
• How do we identify and proactively deal with any social, ethical, and/or legal issues that might arise through the application of game-based tools to healthcare issues?

I have a fifth: Can games make healing fun?

from Bernie DeKoven, funsmith