Have you taken the challenge yet?  “What challenge?”, you ask. The Health 2.0 Developer Challenge or those on Challenge Post. These sites take advantage of the recent US initiative to make health databases available to the public. Since 2010, both sites have hosted challenges sponsored by organizations,...

Organized by the the IU School of Informatics at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), the 2nd annual Midwestern Conference on Health Games conference will be held in Indianapolis on October 28, 2011. Abstracts are being accepted now. The submission deadline is June 1. 2011. For...

It’s that time of year again where the best and brightest in the games for health field gather together for the Games for Health Conference. The 2011 conference will be held at the Hyatt Harborside Hotel in Boston, MA from May 18-19 with a pre-conference May 17. Opening keynote. This year, the...

It is with bitter sweetness that I inform you of my resignation as editor of the healthGAMERS blog. I have accepted a new position with the world-renowned Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke’s Episcopal Health System and will be leaving my position as Director of Marketing for Archimage. Today, March...

An opportunity to go international. It’s been recently brought my attention that Dublin City University’s 11th annual DIVERSE International Conference is seeking papers on eHealth for their upcoming meeting in June.  The conference centers around effective uses of visual media in education...

American Journal of Preventive Medicine reports on randomized clinical trial American Journal of Preventative Medicine, Elsevier: San Diego, CA, December 7, 2010 – Obesity in youngsters has risen dramatically in recent decades. Fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption and increased water intake can lower...

Health games expand to Midwest. On October 29th Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) and the School of Informatics at IUPUI will be hosting the first-ever Midwestern Conference on Health Games in Indianapolis. The conference is a Games for Health Regional Event for 2010 and is...

What we’ve been waiting for. The University of California in partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Pioneer Portfolio have been working on a fantastic health games site this year for their national program Health Games Research.  Health Games Research funds research to advance the...

Expansion. The Games for Health Conference will be holding its sixth meeting this year at the Hyatt Harborside Hotel in Boston, and the schedule is finally out.  The traditional two-day conference will offer over 40 sessions with 60 speakers and will cover a wide range of topics including exergaming,...

Last week I got wind of some pretty cool activity going on over at the Wii Mommies site. The wonderful folks over there [remember our interview with Wii Mommy Julie?] have launched a contest that pulls together elements of reviewing, reporting and hands on interaction specifically for the Wii Fit Plus...