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Dominick Tyer writes in the Digital Intelligence blog: Merck & Co is working on a new mobile app for type 2 diabetes patients to help them keep taking their medicines as prescribed. The pharma company is collaborating on the Type 2 Travelers Project with behavioural change gaming firm Ayogo and the game was showcased at the mHealth Summit held near

Stephanie Baum writes in MedCity News: Merck (NYSE: MRK) is turning to gamification in a collaboration with Canadian gaming developer Ayogo in a bid to support adherence. It was one of a group of companies demonstrating their games in the Games for Health Pavillion at the mHealth Summit this week near Washington, D.C. “Our goal is to help diabetics get

Excerpt from Ayogo’s CEO Michael Fergusson’s interview with Eric Wicklund at the mHealth Summits: MF: Because it’s a fundamental aspect of human psychology to play, video games are taking advantage of what we are interested in. That’s why games work.  To keep you engaged in the game they try to mimic this effect that comes from real life – that you need

Michael Fergusson is interviewed on CBC radio’s On the Coast, December 27, 2013 about Monster Manor

Big News for Monster Manor! An open beta of Monster Manor began in the UK and Ireland on October 15, 2013!  We’re giving 100 families with at least one child who has type 1 diabetes the opportunity to take part. What is Monster Manor? A game for Apple & Android phones/tablets/iPods that helps get kids tracking their blood glucose by

This coming week at Ayogo we are challenging ourselves. While we create apps to help people living with Type 2 Diabetes, it isn’t something that many of us have the hands-on experience of living with. So, our internal diabetes expert, Adrian Estergaard, is leading the office in a week-long Diabetes Diet Challenge! A meal plan has been put together that