Back in May, MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper announced it was teaming up with behavioral health technology company Polaris Health Directions (Polaris) on an behavioral health pilot project using the Apple Watch to help improve breast cancer treatment outcomes. This week, the pilot project officially kicked off reaching patient hands (wrists) for the first time via the Apple Watch.
The partnership brings together MD Anderson Cooper’s expertise in oncology and Polaris’s deep experience in
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Hospital Uses Google Glass To Diagnose Skin Conditions
A team of physicians at Rhode Island Hospital conducted a research trail with Google Glass to gauge the effectiveness, security and patient acceptance of a real-time, video skin consultation. The study began in March, 2014 and concluded after six months. The research results were recently published this week in JAMA Dermatology.
Study Overview
For the patients who qualified for the trial, the emergency department physicians at the Rhode Island Hospital used Google Glass to contact a
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Hospital Uses Google Glass to Integrate Prompts During Trauma Care
Trauma surgeons at Forbes Hospital is now using Google Glass to integrate prompts during trauma patient resuscitation to treat critically injured patients. Utilizing the software solution called Visual Info Zonal Reminder (VIZR) developed by Alex Guerrero, MD, a trauma surgeon from New York features information on a wide range of traumatic injuries.
How It Works
Once a patient program is initiated, a timer begins that provides important prompts and reminders to the trauma team every
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MedEx To Roll Out 10 Ambulances with Google Glass in Chicago
MedEx, a Chicago-based provider of ambulance and telemedicine services announced this week it is rolling out 10 ambulances equipped with Google Glass, ChicagoInno reports. Utilizing Pristine's EyeSight HIPAA compliant software, paramedics can now prepare emergency response for an incoming patient, document a call, or beam a remote specialist into the ambulance for a stroke consult in real time audio and video.
MedEx Ambulance is the first in the nation to implement Google Glass in EMS and has
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Smart Glasses App Developer VitalMedicals Raises $925k
VitalMedicals, a San Francisco-based company developing smart software platform for surgical teams and hospitals, to improve operational efficiency and patient safety, has announced it has raised $925k in seed funding from professional angel investors and the Stanford-StartX Fund. The capital will allow the company to expand their technical team needed to continue building innovative smart glasses technologies for the hospital and beyond. Additionally, it will enable them to expand their pilot
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3 Facts Proving The Future of Google Glass in Healthcare is Brighter Than Ever
There have been tons of recent reports and op-eds following recent announcements from Google about the changes to the Glass program. Unfortunately, much of the reporting has been misleading. Let's start by getting the facts straight, then consider what's next for Glass.
Facts:
1) Glass is “graduating” from Google[x], the company’s research division, and becoming a full-fledged business unit within Google proper.
2) The new business unit will be overseen by Tony Fadell, who led the iPod
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Study: Google Glass Not Reliable for Remote ECGs Readings
Cardiologists have found Google Glass technology for remote electrocardiogram (ECG) readings significantly less reliable than paper ECG, according to a recent study published in the Feb. 1 issue of The American Journal of Cardiology.
Study Overview
In the study, Omar M. Jeroudi, M.D., from the Veterans Affairs North Texas Health Care System in Dallas, and colleagues sought to nvestigate the accuracy of remote electrocardiogram (ECG) interpretation using Google Glass by comparing by 10 ECGs
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Augmedix Raises $16M to Expand Google Glass in Doctors’ Offices
Today, Augmedix announced that it has received $16 million in Series A venture funding co-led by the company's seed investors Emergence Capital and DCM Ventures. Augmedix plans to utilize the capital to expand to expand operations, fuel product development, and establish new partnership initiatives. Augmedix has raised $23 million in total venture funding to date.
Founded by Stanford grads CEO Ian Shakil and Chief Product Officer Pelu Tran in 2012, Augmedix — a service powered by Google
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Can A Google Glass App Help the Hearing Impaired?
Close to 30 million people in the US alone suffer from hearing impairment. Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a Google Glass app especially designed for the hearing impaired called Captioning on Glass (CoG). How does the technology work? Is it genuinely useful to the hearing impaired? What are the pitfalls of the app? While some researchers say that it is possible, others deny it.
How does Google Glass work for the hearing impaired?
A Georgia Tech research team is credited with
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Google Glass in Healthcare Is Here to Stay
Kyle Samani of Pristine shares his insights on the state of Google Glass in healthcare and why its demise is an exaggeration.
In the past couple of weeks, a number of press outlets have announced what is amounting to the death of Google Glass (see here and here, for example). These reports cite lack of consumer adoption and the fact that consumer-facing software companies (i.e. Twitter) have dropped support for Glass. Following this logic, Glass must be just as dead for professionals
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