Evo, the First Prescription-Strength Video Game?

Post by sago » Fri, Oct 23, 2015, 7:40 PM UTC

edge17 wrote: post #12

sago wrote: post #11

I wrote a meditative slow game called Calmer (was iOS, sold terribly, no longer available). I was contacted by a US psychiatrist who said he prescribed it for anxiety patients. It never occurred to me to try to raise tens of millions of dollars for medical trials and then charge a huge amount to insurers! It does strike me as dubious that the investors are backing this game. When surely any positive result would hold…

@sago There's a fair amount of this going on rightnow, that is, using mobile games to address anxiety. Partly because your phone is always there and having treatment options outside the hospital have historically been limited. Psychiatry is very different compared to other fields of medicine in that things tend to be difficult to measure objectively.

Post by War_Machine » Fri, Oct 23, 2015, 7:54 PM UTC

sago wrote: post #11

I wrote a meditative slow game called Calmer (was iOS, sold terribly, no longer available). I was contacted by a US psychiatrist who said he prescribed it for anxiety patients. It never occurred to me to try to raise tens of millions of dollars for medical trials and then charge a huge amount to insurers! It does strike me as dubious that the investors are backing this game. When surely any positive result would hold…

Post by nsgi » Fri, Oct 23, 2015, 8:27 PM UTC

viewer5 wrote: post #9

werber wrote: post #8

If a game is "prescribed" is it illegal to use without a perception?

You can be prescribed to take over-the-counter drugs, like "take two ibuprofen with each meal for 4 days; if symptoms persist, schedule another appointment". "Prescribed" doesn't necessarily mean "prescription-ONLY".

Post by jcl » Fri, Oct 23, 2015, 9:07 PM UTC