Penn Nursing Games and Apps Pipeline
Below find descriptions of games and apps in the Penn Nursing Game Solutions for Healthcare pipeline.
Body Wars: A Youth Education Game (PDF) »
Body Wars is a board game designed to teach incarcerated adolescents about the body and the effects of various adverse agents, such as drugs, alcohol, STDs, and HIV on the body.
Find-A-Doc (PDF) »
An android smart-phone application to provide more efficient access to a centralized directory, searching for providers by insurance network to simultaneously view ratings or reviews about potential providers.
Foods with Friends (PDF) »
An interactive and cooperative game to teach nutrition estimation with the goal of improving awareness of lifetime food choices.
Healthy Cities, Healthy Women (PDF) »
Raise awareness around urban women’s health issues and the cultural and social determinants that affect their health, such as: safety, housing, education, access to healthy foods, and healthcare.
Mama*cue (PDF) » Mama*cue Blog »
Mama*cue's mission is to help mamas and their babies breastfeed and to grow breastfeeding friendly communities to support them. Mama*cue is a web-based game targeting low income teens that will provide information and support for birth and breastfeeding.
mhsSIM: Mental Health System Simulator (PDF) »
An agent-based simulation of a mental health system that allows users to experiment with different government policies and organizational structures to determine optimal mental health intervention designs.
Mission Reintegration (PDF) »
Soldiers report one of the most difficult aspects of combat is the return to civilian life. Our ability to connect service members with mental health professionals is difficult. The goal of Mission Reintegration is to begin 'reintegration education' from the very start of a soldier's deployment.
MyDia Text (PDF) »
A smart phone and web-based application for kids with diabetes to send and receive information from providers about their blood sugar status and health goals. Its purpose is to engage youth in the management of their diabetes.
Stat Me Up (PDF) »
A web-based application for patients receiving chemotherapy designed to track vital information - such as easily overlooked data like variant baselines, potentially leading to detrimental errors.
Trigger Busters Asthma Game (PDF) »
A phone game for asthma control in children that teaches about asthma triggers and daily medication management.