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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.


G4H 2006: Using Portable Game Devices to improve Pre-Op Anxiety

Posted by Peter Smith on 06-10-04

Dr. Patel's work with using portable game systems to improve pre-op anxiety is really exciting. She is a Games for Health veteran and is always interesting. She showed very compelling videos of children who had trouble with dealing with the stress of going into surgery. In the next video the same kid had a Game Boy and they didn’t even seem to notice all the things happening to them they just fell asleep playing Mario.