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[Conference News] Gaming Platforms Can Manage Health Conditions

A team of researchers recently proposed a novel application for the Xbox consumer game system -home telemanagement of congestive heart failure. The system helps patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) to monitor symptoms, weight changes, and quality of life while learning more about their disease. The system is designed to run on the Microsoft Xbox videogame console using an active Internet connection and a connection to a computer running Windows Media Center. It queries patients daily on their condition, monitors their weight, and provides patients with instant feedback on their condition in the form of a 3-zone CHF action plan. The system is designed to be simple to use by patients with no prior computer or videogame experience.

Introducing Home Telemanagement of Congestive Heart Failure Using Xbox Gaming Platform,” and other papers from CBMS 2012 are available to both IEEE Computer Society members and paid subscribers via the Computer Society Digital Library.
 

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