Video Games Improve Medication Compliance

Play video games can help with pediatric patient medication compliance (16% increase). From the August 2008 issue of Pediatrics, cited in a Yahoo! (Reuters):

In Re-Mission (http://www2.re-mission.net), developed by HopeLab, a Redwood City, California-based non-profit company, players control a tiny robot called Roxxi who moves around in a 3-D environment representing the inside of the body of a young cancer patient. Players can use Roxxi to blast cancer cells and control side effects, and winning the game requires taking chemotherapy drugs and antibiotics, using relaxation techniques, eating food, and keeping up with other types of self-care.

SOURCE: Pediatrics, August 2008.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080805/hl_nm/game_cancer_dc;_ylt=Ah1j5t0IB1cChOYyoe4T99Ks0NUE

Telehealth Technologies Addressing the Global Impending Nursing Shortage

Telehealth Technologies Addressing the Global Impending Nursing Shortage...

In addition to providing better care for patients at a distance, telehealth technology applications can provide a real means for the nursing profession to alleviate the impending nursing shortage. According to a report of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), there will be an unmet need for more than one million nurses in the United States by 2020.
http://www.nursingcenter.com/CareerCenter/static.asp?pageid=800469


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HealthVault - A Healthy Idea?

e-Health meets social software from Microsoft. With HealthVault, all of your health information is in one place that you control….. what does everyone think ?

Source : OLWeekly