Serious Games in Healthcare

Initially, Serious Games were created for professional training. Now, they are becoming accessible to everyone, including in the healthcare field. With a perfect blend of fun and educational elements, these games offer new perspectives for raising awareness, training, and treatment. In this context, we introduce here how these innovative tools are truly transforming the healthcare landscape.

A New Approach to Prevention

In the healthcare sector, Serious Games are transforming prevention through their innovative nature. For healthcare organizations, it is an opportunity to raise awareness among teams about health issues in a fun and accessible way.

Training Healthcare Professionals Differently

Have you ever thought about this? Serious Games are also a valuable tool for training healthcare professionals within companies. For nurses, doctors, and first responders working in your workplace health services, learning through play has an important role.

These games offer them the chance to face realistic emergency situations without any risk. They are, in fact, interactive simulations that allow practitioners to enhance their skills, learn to manage stress, and make quick decisions in response to real-life cases.

They can practice handling workplace accidents, sudden illnesses, or crises, for instance. This significantly improves their responsiveness and efficiency in real situations when called upon.

A good example is the simulator developed for Novartis using the VTS Editor software. This Serious Game, designed for Medical Representatives, allows them to practice interacting with healthcare professionals. To make it truly effective, it includes educational sequences of up to 20 minutes in which the Medical Representative can encounter random events, just like in real situations. Each scenario offers an interactive, non-linear, and variable experience.

Faced with different healthcare professionals, the Medical Representative conducts their medical visit in various ways depending on the interactions they choose, leading them through different scenario paths. They must ask the right questions and propose solutions tailored to the healthcare professional’s needs. Qualitative feedback based on the representative’s choices is included to provide relevant and useful insights for improving practices.

 The simulator created for our client Novartis using the VTS Editor software incorporates elements of interaction, simulation, active learning, and skills assessment.

Towards Personalized and Connected Workplace Health

The rise of Serious Games in healthcare is part of a broader trend: that of personalized and connected medicine. These games will provide new perspectives on the individualized health monitoring of your employees. By collecting data on players’ performance and progress, they enable the adaptation of prevention programs and recommendations based on the specific needs of each employee. Occupational doctors can thus target awareness-raising actions and offer tailored solutions to prevent workplace risks. Furthermore, thanks to their digital format, Serious Games promote continuous support for employees, even outside of regular medical check-ups.

VTS Editor: Revolutionize Workplace Health with Your Serious Games

VTS Editor: Revolutionize Workplace Health with Your Serious Games

With VTS Editor, you can create custom Serious Games to offer a modern approach to health challenges. This intuitive tool enables you to design interactive simulations without any programming skills. For an even greater impact, you can also choose educational escape games to effectively convey your message.

You can easily tailor your scenarios to meet your specific needs:

  • Workplace or health risk prevention
  • Stress management, workplace ergonomics
  • First aid, and more.

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