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Glass Helps Save a Life In A Boston Emergency Department

May 8, 2014 By Dan Rosenbaum

CIO has an interesting story about a neat use of Google Glass in the emergency department of Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. An ER doc was able to access and read a patient’s medical records while providing emergency care — learning from the documents that the standard treatment that was about to provided would probably have killed the guy.

It’s worth noting that, because of Google’s software licensing and privacy policies, the hospital had to write its own software from scratch, and teamed with Wearable Intelligence (which specializes in healthcare and energy verticals) to do so. The win was really more for the form factor — wearable visor hardware — than for Glass itself. But still…

Last updated by Dan Rosenbaum on May 8, 2014.

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  1. Blues and Twos says

    May 26, 2014 at 6:49 am

    Hello sir,
    Thank you for your nice posting.It’s worth noting that, because of Google’s software licensing and privacy policies, the hospital had to write its own software from scratch.
    Thank you for your nice posting………..

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