Talk about your really cool mashups of Web 2.0 technology being employed in clever ways to help improve people’s health! The non-profit Diabetes Hands Foundation has teamed up with Joslin Diabetes Center and pharma sponsor Boehringer Ingelheim to introduce a new interactive, Facebook-based game with social networking features that teaches you about healthy eating and diabetes management, and encourages you to take actions. The game is called HealthSeeker, and it goes live today!
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AmyT on
April 26, 2010
The tech blogs are all abuzz today over Bayer’s new DIDGET meter, designed just for kids, which integrates BG testing into the world of video games:
“Bayer’s DIDGET is the first and only blood glucose meter that connects directly to Nintendo DS and DS Lite and helps kids manage their diabetes by rewarding them for consistent testing habits with points to unlock new game levels and options. Bayer’s DIDGET meter is made for kids ages…
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AmyT on
December 8, 2008
You like games? Got diabetes? Then you are going to love this: A small Massachusetts-based startup company called Glymetrix has created an online game that aims to help you improve your diabetes management, but without all the boring and preachy “diabetes stuff.”
Seriously, the game is modeled after Trivial Pursuit, Jeopardy and similar games you’ve probably played before or watched on TV. Only about 20% of the total content is diabetes-related. (Categories include Sports, Television,…
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