Here is a snippet describing the Games for Health initiative. A link to the list of the 2008 sessions below.
"Games for Health is a project produced by The Serious Games Initiative, a Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars effort that applies cutting edge games and game technologies to a range of public and private policy, leadership, and management issues.
The Initiative founded Games for Health to develop a community and best practices platform for the numerous games being built for health care applications. To date the project has brought together researchers, medical professionals, and game developers to share information about the impact games and game technologies can have on health care and policy.
In addition to the Games for Health conference, the Initiative is working to catalog use of games in health care, to assist current development, collect best practices, share research results, and explore ideas that might improve health care administration and policy."
Several sessions will cover games used for pediatrics, infectious disease and exercise. Reviewing this list and the post for prior games for health gatherins is a good way to get an overview of the type of work that is being done in online games for health.
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