by medicaltechont | Feb 3, 2020 | AI, AR, Google, Samsung, Technology
So what is Augmented Reality Technology anyway? In it’s simplest form it is fusion of an interactive experience. It connects the real-world with a computer-generated one. You can use mobile devices, Smart Glasses, AR contact lenses, VR displays or special hardware. Google jumped into the world early, with the hope of pushing consumer technology forward. Google Glass arrived with fanfare and the possibilities were endless.
With the might of Google how could it fail? Unfortunately it did, but not totally. Google Glass was pricey, and possibly just too ahead of it’s time. Also many had concerns over privacy and how data was being used. However Google did help to push the technology forward. Augmented Reality hasn’t died. It merely has morphed and moved forward, in various forms. Amazon and Samsung have plans, along with a host of other companies. The glassware form of AR is only one aspect of the technology. Continue to follow as we delve into other areas of AR and it’s possible impact in the healthcare field.
by medicaltechont | Jun 16, 2018 | Technology
DeepMind’s foray into digital health services continues to raise concerns. The latest worries are voiced by a panel of external reviewers appointed by the Google-owned AI company to report on its operations after its initial data-sharing arrangements with the U.K.’s National Health Service (NHS) ran into a major public controversy in 2016.
The DeepMind Health Independent Reviewers’ 2018 report flags a series of risks and concerns, as they see it, including the potential for DeepMind Health to be able to “exert excessive monopoly power” as a result of the data access and streaming infrastructure that’s bundled with provision of the Streams app — and which, contractually, positions DeepMind as the access-controlling intermediary between the structured health data and any other third parties that might, in the future, want to offer their own digital assistance solutions to the Trust.
https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/15/uk-report-warns-deepmind-health-could-gain-excessive-monopoly-power/
by medicaltechont | Jun 9, 2018 | Canada, Cloud, e-Health, eHealth, Election, Electronic Medical Records, Healthcare, Hospitals, Medical Records, Technology
I have been a family physician practising in this province for 30 years. It is a great joy looking after my patients. However, looking after them in the health care quagmire of disconnected information and bureaucratic silos is becoming a nightmare. It is alarming seeing my young colleagues bewildered so early in their careers, and new graduates of family medicine are afraid to set up practice.
The province is carved up into 14 Local Health Integration Networks and 76 sub-LHINs each seemingly reinventing the wheel while consultants analyze the same things over and over again. There is an obsession with accountability frameworks designed by this ever growing bureaucracy that has little idea about what we actually do and what tools we need to do our job.
Hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent on a huge array of electronic repositories and information systems that don’t integrate at the most basic level with each other years after they were built. Providers spend countless hours trying to locate who does what where and what hoops to jump through to get appointments. We fax long paper forms with lab and other reports that are somehow not available from these expensive repositories. We typically access each other by phone in the absence of electronic messaging capabilities.
Read more at https://www.thespec.com/opinion-story/8651966-survival-at-the-front-lines-of-the-health-care-quagmire/
by medicaltechont | Oct 1, 2016 | Uncategorized
Can you imagine visiting your physician while he or she communicates with a scribe thousands of miles away? Google and Augmedix believe that is the future of medicine, according to The Washington Post.
Augmedix, a San Francisco-based Google Glass startup, uses the pair of glasses and its own medical scribes to enhance the patient-provider relationship.
Approximately 500 physicians in 27 states pay between $1,500 and $4,000 per month to wear Google Glass throughout the day. Attached to the pair of glasses is a small camera, through which a medical scribe can watch an entire appointment and transcribe the patient’s information. If the physician has a patient-related question, the scribe can check the patient’s information and send the physician an answer, which will pop up in the right-hand corner of the glasses.
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by medicaltechont | Apr 20, 2014 | eHealth
Google Glass could revolutionise the way doctors treat diseases and illnesses.
Google Glass could be about to revolutionise the way a range of medical conditions are treated and there are now a number of trials currently taking place across the world. Helping to repair cleft palettes Doctors in Alabama have been collaborating with clinics in El Salvador to train surgeons in repairing cleft palette. Plastic Surgeon Raj Vyas viewed children’s faces through a pair of Google Glasses worn by the trainee, and gave direction by placing his ‘hands’ virtually into the same picture. In February, a team from the University of California introduced an app which allows users perform instant, wireless diagnostic tests for a variety of diseases and health conditions.
Read more at
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10753600/Google-Glass-may-revolutionise-medical-treatment.html
