When Healing Becomes a Game: Usage of AI and Gamification in Healthcare and their Ethical and Legal Challenges

Health is the topmost priority of every individual. Existence of good health ensures that an individual is able to perform all his life functions efficiently. At the same time a lack of good health acts as an obstruction in fulfillment of all endeavors of life. Good healthcare is an amalgamation of both prevention and cure. While the conventional therapies are helpful in cure, usage of AI and gamification in healthcare has opened gates for both prevention and cure as means of enhancing as well as maintaining good health. Games provide an attractive and engaging medium for staying healthy. They can however also lead to perils like addiction and boosting violent behavior. At the same time gamification of healthcare presents various ethical and legal challenges. Through this paper an attempt is being made to view health games from legal point of view by identifying and redressing legal and ethical challenges that health games face. A thorough doctrinal study has hence been conducted for the endeavor.