Committing to exercise regularly is not an easy task. Following evaluation investigate the adequacy of gamification techniques within wearable devices by analyzing the multiple aspects of gamification, wearable technologies, and the healthcare industry. Gamification is not about learning how to play a game; instead gamification emphasizes using game mechanics or elements in a non-gaming system ...

True success of Serious Games depends on consumers' realization of the inherent value of those products for various self-efficacy applications in life. Additionally, there exist numerous challenges for Serious Games developers from a market perspective including smaller consumer audiences, higher development cost, the need for embedded evaluation and assessment functionality, as well as insuffi...

Numerous challenges confront managers in the healthcare industry, making it increasingly difficult for healthcare organizations to gain and sustain a competitive advantage. Contemporary management challenges in the industry have many different origins (e.g., economic, financial, clinical, and legal), but there is growing recognition that some of management's greatest problems have organizationa...

BACKGROUND Recent legislation empowering providers to embrace the electronic exchange of health information leaves the healthcare industry increasingly vulnerable to cybercrime. The objective of this systematic review is to identify the biggest threats to healthcare via cybercrime. OBJECTIVE The rationale behind this systematic review is to provide a framework for future research by identifyi...

Healthcare has made great efforts to reduce preventable patient harm, from externally driven regulations to internally driven professionalism. Regulation has driven the majority of efforts to date, and has a necessary place in establishing accountability and minimum standards. Yet they need to be coupled with internally driven efforts. Among professional groups, internally-driven efforts that ...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to estimate the incidence and prevalence of hearing loss for noise-exposed U.S. workers by industry sector and 5-year time period, covering 30 years. METHODS Audiograms for 1.8 million workers from 1981-2010 were examined. Incidence and prevalence were estimated by industry sector and time period. The adjusted risk of incident hearing loss within each ...

The healthcare industry is under pressure to improve patient safety, operate more efficiently, reduce medical errors, and provide secure access to timely information while controlling costs, protecting patient privacy, and complying with legal guidelines. Analysts, practitioners, patients and others have concerns for the industry. Using the popular strategic analysis tool of strengths, weakness...

Transform healthcare by putting data to work, revealing clinical and operational insights 2 IBM Content and Predictive Analytics for Healthcare Every single day, modern medicine delivers miracles. Across the world, millions of people benefit from routine medications, procedures and therapies that extend and improve life in ways that would have been thought impossible a decade ago—or pure magic ...

One truth holds for the healthcare industry nothing should interfere with the delivery of care. Given this fact, the access control mechanisms used in healthcare to regulate and restrict the disclosure of data are often bypassed. This “break the glass” phenomenon is an established pattern in healthcare organizations and, though quite useful and mandatory in emergency situations, it represents a...

Big data analytics will transform every industry, and none more than healthcare. To simplify integration, Intel is working with GE to deliver Predix® for Healthcare, a computing platform designed specifically for integrating applications and for sharing and analyzing large, complex data sets. Predix will help healthcare providers turn mountains of isolated data into actionable insights across t...