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Towards an Architecture for a Game Achievement Based System to Analyze Human Health Comparative Behavior

Authors:
René Baranyi
Nadja Lederer
Thomas Grechenig

Keywords: electronic health record; patient empowerment; achievements; medical informatics

Abstract:
Nowadays a few concepts of games and game design are used in different non-entertainment domains (this is also called gamification). Part of this gamification is also emerging in the health sector. This work-in-progress paper tries to define a methodology and an architecture how an achievement based service in healthcare can be designed, analyzed and implemented. This service uses patient data from different sources (e.g., from a patient’s personal health record) to share anonymized health related information/achievements with other people. Thus, it might build up a comparative behavior between patients and motivate them to increase the usage of a personal health record.

Pages: 137 to 140

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: February 24, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4359

ISBN: 978-1-61208-252-3

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from February 24, 2013 to March 1, 2013