Kansas City plastic surgeon uses Google Glass to avoid looking at monitors in OR Dr. Jeff Colyer, a plastic surgeon and Kansas Lt. Governor is now using Google Glass to perform facial reconstructive surgeries at a North Kansas City Hospital, Fox 4 of Kansas City reports. By uploading the patient's x-rays to Google Glass, the surgeon avoids looking at the monitor in the operating room.
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Stanford University Medical School to Deploy Google Glass to Improve Surgeon Training
CrowdOptic partners with Stanford University Medical Center to deploy Google Glass to evaluate training in a variety of surgical settings for faculty and students. CrowdOptic, a maker of mobile and wearable broadcasting solutions, today announced that the company is working with the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Stanford University Medical Center to help improve resident training in complex surgical procedures, through the use of Google Glass technology. CrowdOptic is one of five
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Avinent Launches First Google Glass App for Dental Surgery
Avinent launches the world's first Google Glass app for dental surgery to provide clinicians with access to precise step by step information minimizing risk during implant surgery Avinent, a Barcelona, Spain-based dental implant company has developed a new Google Glass app for assisting surgeons with dental implant procedures. The application called Avinent Glass was developed in partnership with the software development company Droiders and Dr. Jesús López Vilagran opens up
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ProTransport-1 to Deploy Google Glass in Ambulances and Mobile Medicine Units
ProTransport-1 partners with CrowdOptic to deploy Google Glass in ambulances and mobile medicine units for real-time video evaluation of patients during transport. ProTransport-1, a Northern California based medical transport provider has announced a software partnership with CrowdOptic, maker of mobile and wearable broadcasting solutions to deploy the CrowdOptic Google Glass broadcasting solution in its ambulances and mobile medicine units.
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iPatientCare Updates Its Wearable EHR App for Google Glass Functionality
iPatientCare, Inc., provider of cloud based ambulatory EHR, Integrated Practice Management and Patient Portal Solutions, announced an updated version of its native miGlass the first Wearable EHR App for Google Glass. The new Glassware technology extends the functionality to the iPad, Android and web to Google Glass, giving physicians access to patient records at the point of care without having to look away from their patients. "Medication Adherence and other health behaviors are often the
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5 Biggest Barriers to Google Glass Adoption in Healthcare
Google Glass adoption in healthcare is promising, but also has its share of challenges to overcome. We examine the thoughts of Dr. Rafael Grossmann and Pristine’s Kyle Samani on the subject. The little wearable optical computer that could, may be helping physicians and medical professionals see things a bit differently these days—but how Google Glass will seamlessly replace other devices to enhance clinical care has yet to come fully into focus. For even the device’s biggest enthusiasts say
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5 Medical Specialties That Can Benefit from Google Glass
Learn how Google Glass and emerging health-compatible applications are changing the way physicians look at healthcare, literally. Pristine’s Kyle Samani offers his insight. Google Glass may have hit the open market with an air of exclusivity—with the wearable optical-mounted computer being available to the public at the bargain price of $1,500—but that hasn’t slowed conversation down about how the device could open a new world of possibilities for healthcare.
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Google Glass Could Help Air Force Medics Treat Wounded in Battlefield
The Air Force is currently evaluating the effectiveness of Google Glass in battlefield informatics that could allow medics to treat the wounded, WSJ reports.
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Pristine Google Glass Clients Utilizing Seamless Video Calling After KitKat Update
Pristine, developer of HIPAA-compliant Google Glass applications for telehealth, announced today that its customers are not affected by Google’s latest operating system update, which removed native video calling from Glass.
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13 Semi-Finalists Announced for Google Glass Challenge Final Pitch-Off
MedTech Boston, the online source for news about medical innovation in Boston, today announced the Final Pitch-Off Event for the Google Glass Challenge.
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