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Senior undergraduates at UAB started the project at the beginning of the spring semester this year with the help of professors Greg Walcott and Jack Rogers. The open source software was developed on computers and is meant to be transferred to the Wii via WiFi. The students made a "successful" presentation of their work this May, at which time the AHA decided to offer the grant.

According to the UAB, the project "could be" completed by fall of , at which time it will be made available as an open source download from the AHA website. This isn't the first time that health monitoring or training has made its way to consumer-level devices, of course, and it's become something of a recent fad. Aside from the obviousness of the Wii Fit, there are now a handful of iPhone apps that help patients and doctors alike monitor patient conditions, ranging from blood sugar levels to full-on hospital vitals.

What's next, surgery training on the Xbox as in the board game Operation? The UAB team says it could complete its program development by early fall of Known for its innovative and interdisciplinary approach to education at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, the University of Alabama at Birmingham UAB is an internationally renowned research university and academic medical center and the state of Alabama's largest employer.

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