This project aimed to develop a game-based personal health record (GB-PHR) platform, “Z,” that uses game-derived elements for helping consumers manage their health and wellbeing by themselves. During the last year, this project has created a detailed ...
This project aimed to develop a game-based personal health record (GB-PHR) platform, “Z,” that uses game-derived elements for helping consumers manage their health and wellbeing by themselves. During the last year, this project has created a detailed three-year plan to develop “Z”. To consider different perspectives of health consumers, professors and master's or doctoral students from various fields, such as consumer health informatics, medicine, psychology, philosophy, ontology, and digital information convergence, have participated to this project as researchers or research assistants. Also, in order to accelerate communication among the participants, last year, three workshops have been held under the names of “IMIB (Idea Machine & Implementation Battle)” or “Grand Master.”
The future health and medical service we defined for developing “Z” has three different groups of participants: “Individuals”, “Professionals,” and “Peer Groups,” in each of which people share the same interests and experience about health and medicine. And these participants in the three groups will utilize the final product “Z” developed for organically combining the following six objectives:
1. Change Health Services: Analyzing examples of and requirements for the future health and medical service;
2. Cultivate Health Manpower: Training professionals needed for the future health and medical service;
3. Control Health Tools: Harnessing tools measuring vital signs of the user;
4. Comply Health Prescriptions: Applying game-derived elements for making people adhere to prescribed regimens;
5. Connect Health Networks: Bridging different health-related networks and systems to share PHRs;
6. Communicate Health Thoughts: Enabling communication over SNSs and big data anlysis.
This project has being conducted according to the objectives mentioned above, and thus this report has also been written based on those objectives. According to the created plan for developing “Z,” the final outcome of conducting the project for three years will include a future health and medical service model, a business guideline for future health and medical service professionals and an education curriculum, a way to link “Z” with other devices, a way to harness health-related networks of users and social health data, as well as a GB-PHR platform.