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Students in HPA 101, Introduction to Health Services Organization, play SimHealth over a period of several weeks. In this games, students are virtual legislators who can enact health care policy reform then track the financial and political effects over a period of 16 years.

Game Objectives

  • Formulate policy based on personal values
  • Observe the financial and political impacts of policy choices
  • Evaluate the long term impact of a policy choice on the overall health care system
  • Evaluate the long term impact on specific interest groups (e.g. doctors, citizenry, hospitals)

Elizabeth J. Pyatt

Thu, 11/05/2009 - 12:03 — Elizabeth Pyatt
Website: 
Elizabeth Pyatt's TLT Blog
Biography: 

Elizabeth has been an instructional designer at Education Technology Services since 2009. Her interest in gaming lies in its ability to simulate real-world challenges/scenarios as well as game play elements.

Mark Sciegaj

Thu, 11/05/2009 - 12:14 — Elizabeth Pyatt
Website: 
http://www.hhdev.psu.edu/hpa/faculty/Sciegaj.html
Biography: 

Mark Sciegaj is Associate Professor of Health Policy and Administration with interestes on health policy, long-term care policy, as well as  health and aging and their interaction with multicultural issues. Prof. Sciegaj is also is the Associate Director of the Penn State Smart Spaces Center which focuses on creating innovative and practical solutions with technology and home design to enable the elderly to remain at home as long as possibly while maintaining a high quality life style.

SimHealth November 18

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 18:13 — Elizabeth Pyatt

There were no major problems this week. Next week we will finalize the survey and focus group questions and begin planning for Spring 2010 and winding down the project thereafter.

SimHealth November 12

Thu, 11/12/2009 - 17:21 — Elizabeth Pyatt

Students have had several training sessions for the game, and some teams were already finished by last week. The game play itself was reasonably clear, but students struggled with items such as using the PrintScreen button and working with DosBox. Jason Kaveney revised instructions for some items based on what was learned in the training session.

The next step is to create the student survey in ANGEL.

 

 

 

SimHealth November 5

Thu, 11/05/2009 - 11:56 — Elizabeth Pyatt

Jason Kaveney will conduct a training session on HealthSim tomorrow in 108 Waring Commons. Both the installation files and the documentation have been loaded into Mark's HPA course in ANGEL.

Elizabeth and Mark will continue to work on developing an assessment survey as well as a focus group section.

 

SimHealth October 30

Thu, 10/29/2009 - 17:54 — Elizabeth Pyatt

As of October 30, the following has happened

  • Instructor Mark Sciegaj is describing the theory of the different policy choices beginning October 26.
  • Mark has also created a report template based on screen captures of different reports in the game.
  • Jason Kaveney is testing download and running of SimHealth game from a Flash drive. The Flash drive will allow students to store data on any computer (from lab to personal computer).
  • Elizabeth Pyatt is reviewing documentation and instructional process.
  • Elizabeth will create survey instruments and possibly a focus group opportunity.

Demo: Scheduled for Fri Nov 6, 10 AM in Waring lab

 

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