Google Glass in Health Care

Stanford University Medical Center’s Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery has started using Google Glass in its resident training program. Stanford will use software from Glass app maker CrowdOptic to help train residents on performing cardiothoracic surgery.

One of the few instances I see Google Glass ever being viable is during surgery.

While a resident is operating on a patient, surgeons can use the CrowdOptic software to watch the resident’s progress and send visual feedback to the resident on technique. Before using Google Glass, the company explains, because views are restricted, it was difficult for surgeons to fully understand how the procedure was going from the resident’s perspective.

Other instances would be in a busy ER or for telemedicine calls to off-site specialists.