GloBuddys Patient experience tool for kids 

GloBuddys is a patient experience tool for kids between the ages of 4-8, to positively distract and manage stress throughout  different stages of a healthcare visits. It uses story telling as a fundamental principle to engage kids throughout the visit and enable them to comply with the healthcare process. It offers a unique communication platform between kids, their parents and the healthcare providers to better understand and support children to cope with discomfort and anxiety

Challenge

Children between the ages of 4-8 often find regular visit to the doctors office stressfull. Their fear and stress will affect their parents too, resulting an overall difficult consultation. Doctors and nurses have ad/hoc ways to distract children from their fears and stress.

Insight

Children can be distracted from a potentially stressfull situation -such as a regular jab- through introducing a story line, in which children can be engaged actively.