Sheba ARC Healthcare Game Jam
Partnering with game jams across Israel to solve real medical challenges
Brought to you by ARC at Sheba Medical Center
Unleash game design to help doctors and patients
About
Sheba ARC Healthcare Game Jam brings together game developers, designers, and healthcare professionals to create meaningful solutions for real medical challenges.
We partner with game jams across Israel and provide clinical problem statements from Sheba Medical Center—one of the world's top 10 hospitals—giving developers the opportunity to create games that could genuinely improve patient care.
Get Involved
Interested in participating? Whether you're a game jam organizer, a university looking for senior projects, or a team wanting to tackle medical challenges—reach out to us.
Sheba provides advisory support from world-class clinicians to help guide your healthcare game development.
Past Game Jams
Global Game Jam 2026
Local Diversifier with SMKB (Kibbutzim College)
January 2026 • Design School, Kibbutzim College, Tel Aviv
Our inaugural partnership brought healthcare problem statements to GGJ Israel, with teams creating games addressing pediatric mental health, AI literacy for clinicians, and rehabilitation challenges.
Partners
Problem Statements
Explore healthcare challenges from our clinical partners at Sheba Medical Center. These problem statements are available for game jams, hackathons, and senior projects.
Game-Based Behavioral Observation
Design games that capture observable behavior patterns to help clinicians understand how kids respond to challenge, uncertainty, and change.
Dr. Hen Meltzer, Sheba Hospital AI LiteracyMaking AI Less of a Black Box for Doctors
Help clinicians build an intuitive mental model of how AI works, including its strengths, limits, and failure modes, through interactive play.
Shifra Samber, CHEO Research Institute Pediatric Inpatient PsychiatryDe-Escalation & Emotional Regulation
Build tools that help children recognize early signs of emotional overwhelm and access calming, evidence-based regulation techniques in the moment they need them most.
Dr. Tal Shilton & Dr. Mariela Mosheva, Sheba Pediatric Psychiatry Pediatric OncologyHelping Kids Swallow Pills
Build games that teach pill-swallowing as a skill, reduce anxiety, and reward consistency. Turn one of the hardest moments of the day into something achievable.
Michal Singer, Pediatric Hemato-Oncology Nurse, Sheba Autism SpectrumTeaching Social Skills Through Games
Design cooperative games that help kids on the autism spectrum practice social interaction, using play as a bridge for connection, expression, and communication.
Dr. Omer Bar Yosef, Sheba Hospital Immersive Rehab • Track 1Physical & Cognitive Rehabilitation Games
Design room-scale games where movement is input, space is the interface, and the body is the controller. Target balance, coordination, memory, and more.
Maya Ehrlich & Ilanit Nit, Sheba Rehabilitation Immersive Rehab • Track 2Tools for Therapists to Create Custom Scenarios
Build fast, flexible tools that let therapists tailor immersive therapy to each patient: swap environments, adjust difficulty, and personalize content.
Maya Ehrlich & Ilanit Nit, Sheba Rehabilitation Immersive Rehab • Track 33D / Full-Body Tracking Interactions
Push beyond touchscreen-style interaction with designs that respond to stance, reach, balance, and multi-limb coordination in 3D space.
Maya Ehrlich & Ilanit Nit, Sheba Rehabilitation Mental HealthGames to Support PTSD Treatment
Design games that help patients stick with proven therapeutic practices: grounding, journaling, structured routines. Make adherence easier.
TBD, Sheba HospitalGames for Healthcare
Examples of how games are transforming medicine:
Games for Doctors
Games can be certified for CME (Continued Medical Education) credit in the US.
CME is a $4B market in the US alone
Games for Patients
Help patients understand what they need to, at their own pace.
Drastically improve the patient experience
Digital Therapeutics
The FDA will approve games that treat disease (ADHD, PTSD, etc.)
Doctors can prescribe them, insurance will pay
Synthetic Data
Use game tools to create AI training data that fills in the gaps.
Make better, less biased AI systems
Games for Rehab
Help patients recover from traumatic injury or surgery.
Make treatments and therapy rewarding and fun
Behavior Change
Modify bad habits and encourage good ones.
Employers, governments, and insurers will pay
Learn More
Talks and videos on games in healthcare:
Get Involved
Whether you're a game jam organizer interested in adding a healthcare track, a university looking for meaningful senior projects, or a team wanting to tackle medical challenges—we'd love to hear from you.
Sheba Medical Center provides advisory support from world-class clinicians to help guide your healthcare game development.