Meta-Gamofy: Automated Metaverse Gaming for Healthcare Conditions

Area of Science:

• Digital Health
• Virtual Reality in Healthcare
• Blockchain Technology

Background:

• Real-time digital communication and enhanced media connectivity are integral to modern healthcare.
• Disease diagnosis and treatment rely on performance indices derived from cognitive, visual, and psychometric data.
• The metaverse offers a platform for game-based treatments, overcoming geographical barriers and improving patient education, particularly in psychological therapies.

Purpose of the Study:

• To explore the application of metaverse gaming techniques for assessing health conditions.
• To investigate the integration of blockchain technology with the metaverse to enhance data protection, privacy, and security in healthcare.
• To articulate a taxonomy for assessing health conditions using metaverse gaming, focusing on security aspects.

Main Methods:

• Reviewing current digital health technologies and their application in wellness and healthcare.
• Analyzing the use of AI-enabled predictive analytics within the metaverse for personalized patient treatment plans.
• Examining the integration of blockchain technology to address security challenges in metaverse healthcare applications.
• Developing a taxonomy for assessing health conditions using metaverse gaming techniques.

Main Results:

• The metaverse, combined with AI, can personalize virtual environments for patient education and therapy, such as phobia treatment.
• Integrating blockchain technology with the metaverse is proposed as a solution to enhance data protection, privacy, and security in digital health.
• A framework for assessing health conditions via metaverse gaming, with a focus on security, is presented.

Conclusions:

• The metaverse holds significant potential to revolutionize healthcare delivery, patient engagement, and therapeutic interventions.
• Addressing data privacy and security challenges through blockchain is crucial for the widespread adoption of metaverse in healthcare.
• Further research into meta-gamification in healthcare is needed to explore its full potential and guide future developments.