Developing a Theory-Driven Serious Game to Promote Prescription Opioid Safety Among Adolescents: Mixed Methods Study. Adolescents in North America are severely affected by the opioid crisis, yet there are limited educational resources for educating teens about prescription opioid safety and misuse. … [Read more...]

The future is looking bright for medical video games, with health company Brainlab acquiring clinician training video game company Level Ex. Verdict Medical Devices takes a closer look. Digital health company Brainlab has acquired clinician-training video game company Level Ex for an undisclosed … [Read more...]

Vive X Doubles Value Of Investments Adds 7 New Startups To Portfolio The HTC Vive X investment program has helped numerous XR companies around the world develop and bring their projects to market over the past few years. This week Vive X announced that the value of its investments has nearly … [Read more...]

Horror video games may have therapeutic value Fighting materialized, virtual monsters can be cathartic in stressful and precarious times. Some of the most downloaded video game genres during the pandemic quarantine have been horror games designed to inspire terror and anxiety. Authors of a … [Read more...]

Unus Terra, serious game against COVID-19, wins top prize at EIT Digital Data Deephack Unus Terra, a serious game against COVID-19 that stimulates behavioral changes in the real world by leveraging persuasive design principles, is the winner of DATA against COVID-19, the online DeepHack organized … [Read more...]

This video game can now be prescribed as medicine in the US When I was growing up, I was always told that video games were detrimental to your health: addictive, "bad for your eyes", and a general waste of time. While some of those concerns may be true when taken to extremes, games are now also … [Read more...]

iSimulate to Release Remote Control Module to Enable Distance-based Simulation ALBANY, New York,  -- Today, iSimulate announced the release of a new REALITi 360 Module: Remote Control will be available as an optional upgrade for all REALITi 360 Patient Monitor Simulators. It is part of the V10 … [Read more...]

Facens Releases Educational Game On New Coronavirus Centro Universitário making game available free of charge for desktops and cell phones (Android and iOS) SOROCABA, Brazil,  -- Since March, Centro Universitário Facens has been seeking ways to help society in the fight against COVID-19. As of … [Read more...]

A TOKYO HOSPITAL IS LIVESTREAMING SURGERIES IN VIRTUAL REALITY A COVID-19 SAFETY MEASURE COULD MAKE MEDICAL EDUCATION MORE ACCESSIBLE. In order to protect medical students and doctors during the coronavirus pandemic, a hospital in Tokyo has started livestreaming surgical procedures in … [Read more...]

Spotlight: ACLS Virtual Reality Training from Health Scholars ACLS VR training was designed in partnership with EMS agencies to provide first responders ACLS training   Company Name: Health Scholars Headquarters: Westminster, CO Signature Product: ACLS Simulation … [Read more...]

Level Ex® Releases Video Game COVID-19 Levels to Prepare Healthcare Providers Educational support from the Johnson & Johnson Institute helps create critical training for those on the frontlines of care CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Level Ex, creator of industry-leading medical video games for … [Read more...]

How The Current Health Crisis Might Change Healthcare There is a saying that everything old becomes new again. While the ultimate depth and reach of the COVID-19 outbreak, as well as the damage to people's health and ramifications for public health entities all around the world, are still to be … [Read more...]

To Support COVID-19 Healthcare Frontline Workers, SimTutor/SIMTICS Responds with Access to Simulation-based Training to Help Workers Fight the Global Pandemic Company Offers Basic and Specialized Healthcare Training Modules for Clinical Skill-Building As new and retired healthcare workers … [Read more...]

AR, VR show promise as innovative ways to control pain, reduce opioid prescriptions Pain management is a major sector in healthcare. The problem has always been there, and it always will be. As long as we have diseases, injuries and major surgeries, pain management will be an area healthcare … [Read more...]

VR Solution for Telehealth Offered Through Pico and XRHealth Partnership The physical infrastructure of healthcare can seem like a real catch-22, particularly in a pandemic. When you most need healthcare, you are most contagious and most susceptible to picking up contagions in the hospital. As a … [Read more...]

Simulation lab trains frontline workers for a variety of intubation scenarios   It’s a delicate procedure that takes skill and a steady hand. Intubation is often necessary when a patient is struggling to breathe. And during the pandemic, it’s all hands on deck. At a simulation lab at … [Read more...]

Gamification for Diabetes Type 1 Management: A Review of the Features of Free Apps in Google Play and App Stores This study highlighted the most important features of the free mobile health applications “apps” for diabetes type 1 available in Google Play and App stores that can contribute to … [Read more...]

Getting serious with serious games in health professionals’ education Games have always been played in all cultures to amuse and distract. If you’ve ever played a quiz game like Jeopardy, you have experienced the emotional thrill of getting answers right and doing so before your opponents. Time … [Read more...]