Encouraging Accountability and Good Behavior
Patients are demanding affordable healthcare, providers are asking for fair reimbursements and payors are suggesting that rendered care should be medically necessary and of high quality to be...
View ArticleBusiness Gamification in Healthcare: What are 3 practical uses?
In the months after Perficient published a whitepaper on Gamification, the interest from our readers has been gratifying and it seems to be time for a follow-up to that interest. Business gamification...
View ArticleGamification: Playing a Game to learn how to create one?
At Perficient, we have been focusing on using gamification in healthcare applications to improve the patient engagement experience and help consumers of healthcare enjoy the experience more. One of...
View ArticleAre you sensing my stress?
Stress is a killer and each of us struggles with controlling stress in our own way. Often stress relief comes in the form of equally destructive behaviors including over-eating, smoking, watching too...
View ArticleGaming and Gamification for Healthcare with the Xbox One
Earlier this week two of my colleagues, Michael Porter and Ryan Duclos, each wrote blogs about the potential uses beyond gaming for the upcoming Xbox One. Micheal explored some of the possible uses in...
View ArticleHealthcare Games Aren’t for Everyone
This morning, I read an article called “Stop playing games with healthcare” about gamification being “a buzzy word, not a real fix” for healthcare. The author, Ryan Bradley, sat in on a case...
View ArticleSwallowing Sensors Gives New Meaning to the Quanitifed Self
You’ve heard of wearables in healthcare technology, but have you considered swallowables? Swallowing a piece of electronics is something that people are actually willing to try. Forrester Research’s...
View ArticleConnected Health Trend Countdown: #4 Reaching the Mobile 91%
Quick, grab your mobile phone. It’s pretty close at hand, I’m guessing. Hence, our next trend in the 2014 Connected Health Trend Countdown: Trend #4: Gamification, Quantified Self, and the Internet of...
View ArticleHealthcare Gamification: Avoiding Chocolate Covered Broccoli
Last week, at IBM Connect, I met an individual with the coolest title in all Profession Land: Global Lead for Serious Games. Her name is Phaedra Boinodiris, and after sitting in on her Birds of a...
View ArticleMarket Driven Patient Portal: Gamification and Serious Games
More than half way through our “What the market says you need in your patient portal” series I bring to you one of my favorite topics: healthcare gamification and serious games. Games are great at...
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