The Google Glass also enter in the operating room - La Stampa

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Into Glass Of Google talk about it for months, both in terms of functionality and privacy, even before ending up on the market. And from the United States comes news of another possible use: a doctor has worn glasses for augmented reality in an operating room for surgery to the stomach and has documented it all in real time on his blog. The doctor is called Rafael Grossmann and works at Eastern Maine Medical Center.

Into “I have taken every precaution to ensure that the privacy of the patient, from which I obtained informed consent, were protected,” Grossman explains on his blog – in a post titled “Glass, hand me the scalpel” – specifying that streaming video and photos never showed identification data or the patient’s face. “I wanted to prove – adds the doctor – this is an intuitive tool with great potential for health, especially for surgery. Could improve the consultations within a team, encourage the opi nion of experts from outside, but also prove to be a useful teaching tool. ” Grossmann has donned Glass for the duration of the intervention and the images that his glasses carpivano were projected on the screen of an iPad. In addition to his blog, the physician has documented the operation in real time thanks to a `hangout ‘on Google, the feature that allows group conversations. “I think it’s the first time that Glass enter into an operating room – Grossmann concludes – we were able to show also the endoscopic technique so fast, cheap and keeping the patient’s identity anonymous.”