Games for Health [Baltimore, MD - Sept 2006]

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3rd Annual Games for Health Conference

The University of Maryland School of Medicine

West Baltimore St

Baltimore, MD 20201

Thursday, Sep. 28, 2006 - Friday, Sep. 29, 2006

8:30 AM - 5:00 PM


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.

Our Goals

The goal of the Games For Health is to help foster and support a community of researchers, developers, and users of applications that use game, game technologies, and game development talent to create entire new ways of improving the management, quality, and provision of healthcare worldwide.

As part of that goal Games For Health also plays a greater role in helping to organize and accelerate the adoption of computer games for a variety of challenges facing the world today.

Our Interests

We are most interested in working to address four interrelated questions:

• Can games improve the provision, and quality, of healthcare?
• What existing and emerging game technologies (such as multi-user, virtual environments) might be particularly useful when applied to healthcare issues?
• How can we expand the application of computer-based game technologies to face key challenges in the healthcare sector?
• How do we identify and proactively deal with any social, ethical, and/or legal issues that might arise through the application of game-based tools to healthcare issues?

The Serious Games 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.


Conference Information and Registration