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The Gaming Edge

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Ray Martinez has had a regular game of soccer with his friends for years until a recent ankle injury kept him off the field. His doctor identified some damaged cartilage and Ray went into surgery to get it repaired. Even though it was an outpatient procedure, the doctor said that he wasn’t allowed to put weight on the ankle for 3 weeks.

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  1. Creative, frog, 660 3rd ST 4th Floor, San Francisco, CA, 94107, USA

    Alex Tam BS

  2. Health Horizons, Institute for the Future, 124 University Ave, Palo Alto, CA, 94301, USA

    Vivian Distler JD & Bradley Kreit M.A., Anthropology

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  1. , Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, East Superior Street Chicago 420, Chicago, 60611, Illinois, USA

    Lyle Berkowitz

  2. Innovation Consultancy / ILN, Kaiser Permanente, Harrison St., 17th Flr 1800, Oakland, 94612, California, USA

    Chris McCarthy

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Tam, A., Distler, V., Kreit, B. (2013). The Gaming Edge. In: Berkowitz, L., McCarthy, C. (eds) Innovation with Information Technologies in Healthcare. Health Informatics. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4327-7_20

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