IT and Healthcare Turn Fun in Singapore with the Launch of Health Innovation Challenge 2016 : Ken Research

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IT and Healthcare Turn Fun in Singapore with the
Launch of Health Innovation Challenge 2016
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• In what is being termed as one of the most
  innovative moves in the global Healthcare IT
  industry, the National Health Group (NHG) in
  Singapore has launched its Health Innovation
  Technology Challenge, 2016. This challenge, which
  is being conducted in collaboration with the
  Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA)
  and Serious Games Association (SGA), aims at
  bringing gaming into healthcare.
• Is it really possible to use games in the
  healthcare industry?
• The answer apparently is a strong affirmative.
  Singapores healthcare IT market is currently
  evolving under the latest development of games
  for real healthcare problems. The idea behind
  such a step is not simply to develop a new
  technology and then expect the community to use
  it. Instead, the people at NHG are encouraging
  hospitals and doctors across Singapore to work
  with the community that is already using those IT
  platforms to help them better understand their
  medical condition.

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• So, if one now wants to know which amongst
  conala, olive or sunflower oil is better for a
  healthy lifestyle, they do not have to go through
  tedious and boring pages. Instead, they can play
  fun games to understand the merits and demerits
  of each.

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• What Serious Gaming really is?
• Serious games are those that simulate real-world
  events that educate and train users in a
  particular area while also being fun and
  entertaining. That is, through interactive
  platforms and subtle storylines, serious games
  enable players to gain in-depth understanding of
  the topic at hand. Such games have become very
  popular amongst users of technology these days as
  the struggle for going through lengthy lectures
  or books is eliminated and replaced by fun
  activities, while retaining the important
  learnings. Serious Gaming has recently found wide
  acceptance and application in the healthcare IT
  industry. Especially in Singapore, backed by the
  NHG, serious gaming is being used for two primary
  purposes. First of all, doctors and other
  healthcare professionals are being encouraged to
  collaborate with IT-domain experts to develop
  gaming platforms that will help their patients
  better keep-up with their treatment. On the other
  hand, students are also being motivated to
  develop gaming models that will make self-care
  much more easy, accessible and fun.

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• The HIT 2016 Challenge
• The Health Innovation Technology Challenge 2016,
  being conducted in Singapore, is open to all
  healthcare organizations. Under this challenge,
  the employees at these healthcare organizations
  are being asked to collaborate with NHG for
  conceptualizing and developing prototype for
  potential games that can become solutions of real
  healthcare problems. The theme for the challenge,
  Moving Towards Better Healthcare Enabling,
  Education and Efficiency, is self-explanatory
  about the intent of the challenge itself. The
  participating teams can choose any category
  amongst Hospital Clinical Management, Primary
  Prevention Care and Post-Discharge Continual
  Care. The participants would be judged on their
  concepts initially, and then after six-months on
  the prototypes. The winner will receive an aware
  of S 3000. Such a move by NHG is well-applauded
  as brining serious gaming into the healthcare
  market will help improve the health conditions in
  Singapore along with driving growth.

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