The future of health care at Mayo Clinic welcomes Google's new wearable mobile technology, Google Glass — a miniature electronic device incorporated in glasses — that allows users to interact with the internet without using their hands. Glass wearers can use spoken language to view, record, and transmit information.
Glass is currently in beta-test stage, says Alfred Anderson III, Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation (CFI) technology director, and not yet commercially available. Approximately 10,000 people have Glass, early adapters who participate in Google's Explorer program. At Mayo Clinic, several physicians and administrators are testing Google Glass across different specialties and departments:
Dr. Smith says that several applications already promise great potential, including:
Anderson says that multiple companies are experimenting with Glass. "They're making it suitable for health care by removing the Google software and replacing it with medical-grade security. These changes allow medical information to be safely transmitted." Much of the experimentation has occurred at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
From a security perspective, says Sewell, Glass may enable tremendous new work flows in a physician setting, but it also creates incredible challenges. "Any data involved goes directly to a internet-based cloud for storage," says Sewell. "And it's crucial that only those who should see patient data can see it."
If you or your health care organization are using Google Glass in the work place, share your experience in the comments below.
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Greetings:
We have a conference “The Future of Wearable Tech: 2014” in Indianapolis from July 25-6.
We also have a “Pre-Conference” series of Hangouts, and invite you to participate to share Mayo’s experience with Google Glass in the clinical setting.
The Hangouts are night at 9pm EST, and we could put other people relevant to the educational experience on the panel.
For further information, please email
John Bennett MD
Director of Pre-Conferences
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desertedbeach@hotmail.com
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I’ve been wearing my device in patient areas at St Vincent’s in Jacksonville for about 9 months garnering feedback and working on how the device can increase communication, responsiveness of staff
and use it to decrease reliance on the computers at the nurses station