However promising gamification in health care may be, it is the AR that may well hold the most promise for health care. Google was not wrong to pursue Google Glass, just premature. Pokémon Go may be signaling that we're now finally ready for AR, and that it will be consumers as well as professionals who can benefit from it. The potential uses in health care are virtually endless, but here are a few examples...Ever feel like your doctor spends too much time staring at your chart or a screen? Instead of looking there for information about you, how much better would it be if he/she was looking at you, with AR notations for key information about you?...
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10 Promising Technologies Assisting the Future of Medicine and Healthcare
Technology will not solve the problems that healthcare faces globally today. And the human touch alone is not enough any more, therefore a new balance is needed between using disruptive innovations but still keeping the human interaction between patients and caregivers. Here are 10 technologies and trends that could enable this...
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10 Things We Learned From Pew Research's Internet Of Things Report
Health tech will boom but privacy effects may be ‘pernicious’. Oh, and ‘we will all have cyberservants’
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11 Wonderful Wearable Open Source Projects
LEDs are on everything, and almost everyone you know has at least tried a FitBit or similar device, whereas Google Glass didn't really take off. Despite several years of growth, whether wearable electronics are a fad, or here to keep growing from fun to truly functional is too early to tell. Judge for yourself—read through a few of our favorite wearable projects from 2016. You might even get inspired to start creating...
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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.
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7 Google Ventures Poised To Revolutionize Healthcare
Forget the “sky’s the limit.” Google is reaching for the moon when it comes to healthcare innovation...
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A Genius And His Motley Cart Of Pioneering Innovations
It just took around two weeks of hard work and a paltry `4,800 for Arvind Sanjeev, the smart geek at tech domain, to make the prototype of Smart Cap, the wearable head mounted display device that catapulted him into the league of promising young entrepreneurs...
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Alfresco Enables Digital Collaboration Among Pathologists to Advance Patient Healthcare
The American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP), the world’s largest professional membership organization for pathologists and laboratory professionals, has paved the way to digital pathology with the creation of ASCPedia, an innovative and educational online slide library utilizing Alfresco Software...ASCP created a library using high resolution digital scanning to convert glass slides to digital files and used Alfresco One, Alfresco’s Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform, to compile, store and organize the digital slides to make it easier for ASCP’s more than 100,000 members to collaborate and share information.
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All Your Worst Fears About Google Glass Are Coming True
It only took about six weeks for developers to take all of the theoretically creepy things the Internet dreamt up about the face computer of the future and turn those into real-life Google Glass nightmares. [...] For most people, however, Google's new facial recognition API presents a more terrifying scenario... Read More »
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Are Mapbox And OpenStreetMap's Personalised Maps The Future Of Cartography?
People are creating their own maps and databases in a movement called open-source mapping, as Sarah Shearman discovers. Read More »
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Arrest Caught On Google Glass Reignites Privacy Debate
The Fourth of July holiday brought about another first for Google Glass, the computing device that you can wear on your face. Read More »
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Augmedix
Augmedix simplifies how physicians use EHRs by providing a technology-enabled documentation service for health systems and doctors. We are on a mission to re-humanize the doctor-patient relationship, and address the largest pain-point in the US healthcare system – the burden of documentation. Read More »
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Beyond Glass: Inside Epson’s Scheme To Make The De-Facto Smart Glasses
Epson can forgive you if your first thought when you hear augmented reality is Google Glass, even though you're wrong. Google may never had actually described its wearable as an AR device, but a combination of the over-promising original concept video and a general naivety about the segment overall led many would-be Glass wearers to be surprised at what the headset really is: a convenient notifications pane in the corner of your vision.
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Condom Airborne Meds: 6 Ways Drones Could Change Health Care
Drones have been used to deliver sunscreen to a conference in Palm Springs, Calif., and pizza to a family in New Zealand, but they’re also in the air for far more urgent purposes — such as saving lives. In fact, in some cases, drones could carry defibrillators to heart attack victims faster than an ambulance, according to a paper published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Researchers simulated emergency situations and found they could get automatic external defibrillators to the scene an average of 16 minutes faster by drone than by ambulance...
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Could Pokémon Go Help Fix Healthcare and Lead to Usable EHRs?
Does Google Glass Have a Place in the Operating Room?
Hospitals are finding innovative ways of adapting the head-mounted computer to healthcare environments. Read More »
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