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The Role of Gamification in Healthcare Applications
Gamification is playing an essential role in the globalization of advanced healthcare system. Most medical platforms use this technique to offer animation, simulation, and storyline environment.

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Gamification is playing an essential role in the globalization of advanced healthcare system. Most medical platforms use this technique to offer animation, simulation, and storyline environment.
FREMONT, CA: The use of game mechanics to prompt user's behavioral change and to achieve target objectives is known as gamification. Its characteristics, such as transparency, liveliness, rewards, challenges, and fun, facilitate competition and participation, enhance the user experience, and promote engagement.
The core features of gamification are:
Experience Designs
It tracks the journey of the user with the app elements like playing a game, booking an appointment, and adding a story.
Boost Confidence
Gamification aims to push users' boundaries and enable them to achieve a particular goal. Most of the goals generally align with the users, and if they reach the goal, the enterprise would automatically reap the benefit.
Digital Engagement
Doctors suggest the use of this platform to patients who are suffering from depression and other psychological problems to divert their minds. It captures the attention of the users and digitally engages them to divert their mind.
Game Mechanics
The inclusion of elements such as badges, leader points, and reward points helps inspire users to make a move and engage them.
Here are three benefits of gamification:
Introduces the Element of Health and Well-bein
Gamification includes a unique characteristic of education; many students face difficulty in learning their books and syllabus. This is where gamification allows them to acquire knowledge by solving puzzles and quests. The same things apply to gamified healthcare mobile applications and platforms.
Motivates Knowledge Acquisition
The use of gamification in healthcare mobile app development can help patients who are suffering from some diseases and needs examining, and healthy people can keep track of maintaining their health status.
Create Curiosity for Health Information
Gamification helps users to focus and enhance competitiveness and dedication while playing a game. In doing so, the electrical activity of the brain rushes up as the brain learns new things. It increases learning power, especially when there is a need to learn new health concepts and vocabulary.
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