Artifact #8: Health Online

While viewing this artifact, I was amazed with how far technology has come to implement health online.  While WebMD is one of the biggest online health resources, there have been many more websites created that are much more interactive.  There is an app consumers can download from Mental Workout, which helps with psychological problems if someone doesn't have an appointment set up with a therapist or if it is not business hours.  They also have a meditation app which is the biggest selling app right now.  The next thing they talked about was social networks.  There is a website called patientslikeme.com which helps connect people that are suffering from the same diseases.  Patients can talk about which medications they are on and their side effects, which helps keep everything in perspective and helps patients feel like they're not alone.  Lastly, they discussed a new idea of health gaming.  There is a game for children cancer patients called Remission.  Remission involves nanobots that are shooting kemo therapy into the cancer cells.  All of these recent inventions will continue to make health online a bigger and better thing.

What I found most interesting about this artifact was the game, Remission.  I thought this was such an amazing idea because it puts the idea of battling cancer into something a little kid can understand.  They start to understand how they are fighting the cancer and helps their mental state too.  It makes their mind stronger, which helps them actually fight their cancer in real life.  Its great how much of an impact your mental state can make in your recover, and its wonderful that they can make a game like this for the kid cancer patients.