Google Glass could be a powerful tool for disruptive innovation in healthcare [Video]

I joined the Glass Explorer Program and have started using Google Glass with a focus on finding medical uses for this type of wearable computing technology. While I believe that it is analytics capabilities that will allow us to realize the value of health information technology, the convergence of hardware and software combined with an explosion of wearable sensor technology is providing powerful opportunities for some disruptive innovation in the healthcare marketplace and the practice of medicine.

Charles Webster, MD got me really interested in the potential with his presentation Google Glass and Healthcare Information and Workflow at the 2014 Healthcare Systems Process Improvement Conference held immediately before HIMSS 2014. Chuck has been posting about Google Glass for some time and one of his posts on the HIMSS Future Care blog is well worth reading. Some of the insights he brought in the post are:

“There’s lots of interest in Glass use by surgeons, EMTs, and nurses, for hands-free …