Google Glass Has Potential for Rheumatology, Orthopedic Surgery

Karandeep Singh, MD, is a fellow in Nephrology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a graduate student in Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston. He is the developer of Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s electronic health record prototype for Google Glass.

Gunnar O. Klein, MD, PhD, is a professor in Health Informatics at the Center for Empirical Research on Information Systems, Örebro University School of Business, Örebro, Sweden. He is also affiliated with NTNU, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim. Klein is partly practicing as a primary care physician in Stockholm.

Johan von Heideken, MD, PhD, is a pediatric orthopedic surgeon at Astrid Lindgren Children’s Hospital and affiliated with Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. He is currently working on a project, Google Glass and Medical Education, as a postdoc fellow at the Department of Physical Therapy, Movement and Rehabilitation Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston. He is also a visiting scholar at Clinica de Traumatologia y Ortopedia Pediatrica, Universidad del la Republica, Facultad de Medicina, Montevideo, Uruguay.

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