How Video Games Can Be Used to Improve Diagnosis and Treatment Methods

These days when it comes to improving the process of diagnosing and treating patients, medtech companies are always looking for explore the unexplored. Level Ex, an innovative medical technology company based out of Chicago, may be taking the most unique approach with the release of their latest mobile game designed to train, educate, and improve the diagnosis and treatment skills of physicians. The new mobile game, known as Pulm Ex, was designed for pulmonologists and aims to bring to life the most challenging patient cases for physicians around the country to help improve their diagnosis and treatment skills using highly realistic virtual patients. The game features a library of different pulmonary cases that include obstructive and restrictive diseases, foreign bodies, endobronchial masses, lung cancers, and more. “Pulm Ex presents physicians with virtual patient case scenarios that can be seen in general and interventional pulmonology,” says Level Ex founder and CEO Sam Glassenberg. “The cases in the game are real cases submitted to Level Ex by leading pulmonologists who have identified these scenarios as some of the most challenging in the field. The game itself is incredibly realistic. Smoke rolls off of freshly-cauterized tissue, blood pools in crevices, foreign objects break and embed in bronchial walls, gooey secretions stick to your scope. These systems are 100% interactive and dynamic, and you will never see the...
Source: MDDI - Category: Medical Devices Authors: Tags: Digital Health Source Type: news