Clinical and surgical applications of smart glasses

Technology and Health Care

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 381-401

  Mitrasinovic, Stefan ^a,b   Camacho, Elvis ^a,f   Trivedi, Nirali ^a   Logan, Julia ^a   Campbell, Colson ^a   Zilinyi, Robert ^a,f   Lieber, Bryan ^c   Bruce, Eliza ^a   Taylor, Blake ^a,f   Martineau, David ^d   Dumont, Emmanuel L P ^e   Appelboom, Geoff ^a   Connolly, E Sander ^a  

^a New York Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital   (United States)

^b ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Jacobs Technion Cornell Institute   (United States)

^f Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

Author keywords

Augmented reality; Electronic Health Records; Epson moverio; Google glass; Heads updisplay; Meta Pro spaceglasses; Smart glasses; Telemedicine

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; CAMERA; CONFIDENTIALITY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DOCUMENTATION; EDUCATION; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MEDLINE; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVACY; REVIEW; SMART GLASSES; SPECTACLES; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TELEMEDICINE; VIDEORECORDING; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DEVICES; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; INTERNET; POINT OF CARE SYSTEM; PROCEDURES;

CONFIDENTIALITY; DOCUMENTATION; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; EYEGLASSES; HUMANS; INTERNET; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; TELEMEDICINE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84938590968     PISSN: 09287329     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/THC-150910     Document Type: Review

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