Chicago startup Level Ex brings video games to the world of medicine
The company creates video games for doctors that allow them to assist virtual patients in an effort to improve their clinical decision-making skills.
The company creates video games for doctors that allow them to assist virtual patients in an effort to improve their clinical decision-making skills.
Medscape has launched the beta Oncology Decision Point tool for lung cancer. The full launch of the tool will include all major cancer types and will happen later this year.
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
As videogames have become mainstream and emerged from the dimly-lit arcade rooms of years past, gaming technology has found increasing application in medical training, pain management, rehab, and digital therapeutics.