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Continuing the “Glass is good for healthcare” theme comes news that the device recently made the ECRI Institute’s 2015 “Hospital C-Suite Watch List” — basically, a list of important things this year for medical administrators to know about. The ECRI Institute is a 45-year-old, non-profit research organization focused on healthcare, and its watch list “answers [...]

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Continuing the “Glass is good for healthcare” theme comes news that the device recently made the ECRI Institute’s 2015 “Hospital C-Suite Watch List” — basically, a list of important things this year for medical administrators to know about.

The ECRI Institute is a 45-year-old, non-profit research organization focused on healthcare, and its watch list “answers key questions on new and emerging health technologies that potentially provide new ways to treat patients, improve care, and reduce costs.”

In its report, ECRI explains what Glass is and how it works, and says some medical providers are optimistic about the results from their initial trials with Glass.

In January 2014, Dignity Health (San Francisco, CA, USA; formerly Catholic Healthcare West) began a pilot study in collaboration with software firm Augmedix (San Francisco, CA, USA) to evaluate whether Google Glass could help family practice physicians redirect more time to patient care and less time to data entry for electronic health records (EHRs). According to Dignity Health, Google Glass let its physicians who were testing the device increase direct patient care time from 35% to 70%, while decreasing daily time spent on EHR data entry from 33% to 9%. Physicians report Google Glass facilitates patient record review without the need to turn away from patients to view a computer screen. Most patients seem to view Google Glass favorably, based on reports that less than 1% of patients in the study asked physicians to remove Google Glass during their visits.

The report goes on to say that some medical clinicians that have tried Glass believe “a new version designed specifically for healthcare applications would be required to fully realize its potential.”

You can download the report for further reading.

(Photo credit: cobalt123 via photopin / cc.)

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