Google Glass Making Its Way Into Operating Rooms

Posted by samzenpus on Monday December 2, 2013 @05:03AM from the all-the-better-to-operate-with dept.

kkleiner writes "Among the possible uses for Google Glass that early adopters are dreaming up, you can now add 'surgical assistance' to the list. With approval from the institutional review board, a UCSF cardiothoracic surgeon recently utilized Glass during procedures by utilizing its voice activation features to refer to patient x-ray scans. Aimed at providing surgeons with the most up-to-date patient data, a startup named VitaMedicals is building apps to stream in patient records and live scans to the device. Even though it's early days for Glass, its potential in the medical space is huge and could revolutionize how doctor's access and apply information from patient records."

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Re:How much does Google stand to lose with somethi by ArmoredDragon · 2013-12-02 05:17 · Score: 4, Informative

I doubt it, all they have to do is state that they never intended it for medical use. So long as they don't advertise it as such, they're fine, any liability is on the doc and/or hospital.
Re:Fuck that by game+kid · 2013-12-02 05:18 · Score: 4, Funny

From the bacteria, or the advertisements?

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combine with Clippy for even more fun by SylvesterTheCat · 2013-12-02 05:59 · Score: 4, Funny

"Hi. You appear to be performing a heart transplant. Can I help?"