Application of mobile games to support clinical data collection for patients with niemann-pick disease

Abstract

Collection of clinical information can be a fraught and intimidating process in hospital environments, especially for children with neurological conditions. Gaming and mobile technology offer many potential advantages for data collection where clinically important data can be collected as a side effect of playing games. Niemann-Pick Disease (NPD) is one example of a condition where gaming technology has the potential to greatly help patients and doctors alike. NPD is a severe, often fatal neurological condition where extensive physiological and cognitive information needs to be collected by doctors, typically in hospital environments. To help healthcare providers collect far richer informati..