Last week marked the culmination of another Health 2.0 conference put on by Matthew Holt of The Health Care Blog and Indu Subaiya. This was my second time at the event and it was truly an overflow of information regarding patient empowerment and improving technologies to better health care. As a public health person, I was really interested in how new technologies and innovations can bring education and awareness to health and I was happy to attend the Games for Health panel session towards the end of the first day.

Among the speakers on the panel were Kristi Miller Durazo of the American Heart Association and Douglas Goldstein of iConecto, who was a great moderator of the group. More information to come soon here on healthGAMERS with an interview on what the American Heart Association is doing with an initiative called CryptoZoo – which was unveiled as an actual activity on the morning of Day 2 of the conference. Stay tuned!

I was fortunate enough to catch up with Doug at his booth where throughout the conference he did a fantastic job (as usual) of demonstrating how consoles such as the Nintendo Wii, are shaping these new experiential media engagement tools for the next generation of health education and public health. In the video below, Doug gives us some insight into what experiential media is and why it’s important to improve the health of our society.

Interview with Douglas Goldstein of iConecto & Games4Health from Andre Blackman on Vimeo.

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