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Google Glass embraced at Beth Israel Deaconess

Google Glass embraced at Beth Israel Deaconess

Wearable screens a part of everyday medical care

SUZANNE KREITER/GLOBE STAFF

Dr. Steven Horng shows Google Glass that he and other doctors will use to read patient records.

Dr. Steven Horng launched a Google Glass pilot program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center late last year because he thought the futuristic device could help save lives. One night in January proved that.

A patient with bleeding in the brain told Horng he was allergic to certain blood pressure drugs — which the doctor needed to slow the hemorrhage — but didn’t know which ones. Horng had little time to leaf through the man’s medical files or search for records on a computer, but with Google Glass, he didn’t have to. Instead he quickly called up the patient’s information on the device’s tiny screen and saved his life with the correct medication.

This week, Beth Israel Deaconess is expanding the use of Google Glass to its entire emergency department, and the hospital said it is the first in the United States to employ the device for everyday medical care. Now, whenever ER doctors begin their shifts, they will slip on pairs of the high-tech glasses as routinely as they put on scrubs.

“We're doing this to prove that the technology can work and really motivate others to explore this space with us,” said Horng, who helped pioneer the use of Google Glass at the hospital.

Google Glass -- called simply “Glass’’ by the Internet giant and users of the device -- is the company’s foray into wearable computing, which some technologists believe is the next frontier in mobile devices. The eyeglass frame has a small clear screen over one eye, which can display pretty much anything users can also see on a smartphone or mobile device, from email to web pages. Glass devices that are specially programmed, such as the ones at Beth Israel, can access information for specific uses, such as medical records, that can only be seen by the wearer.

In addition to its small screen, Google Glass features a high-resolution camera that can capture videos and still images. A thin touchpad on the right earpiece allows the user to control the device in the familiar style of a laptop, though Glass also responds to voice commands and head movements.

It is not yet commercially available, and Google has not announced a public release date. But the company has made prototype versions available to hand-picked “explorers” — mostly software developers willing to shell out $1,500 apiece — to identify potential commercial uses.

One such use may well be the medical community, which has been quick to embrace Glass. Hospitals and doctors across the US have been testing it to conduct remote consultations with specialists, for example, record live-videos during surgery for instruction, or provide quick access to patients’ charts, vital stats, doctors’ notes and other medical information--all without having to use their hands to operate a computer.

“And not only is it hands free, it’s always on, always in front of you and always giving you information,” said Horng, adding he frequently uses Glass to retrieve information that comes up during the course of conversations with patients.

“Rather than having to excuse myself, it means I can quickly access that information without having to interrupt the patient, lose eye contact, or even leave the room,” said Horng, who also holds degrees in computer science and biomedical informatics.

Getting used to Glass isn't easy.

The screen sits just below the top frame of a pair of glasses, so that it is unobtrusive when a wearer looks straight ahead, but snaps into focus when a wearer’s eyes glance up and to the right. but Horng said he spent four months perfecting the display so that it is easy to read. It shows only a few lines of text at a time, and doctors can scroll through additional information by tilting their heads.

Beth Israel doctors get access to their patient’s records because Google Glass can read what are known as Quick Response codes -- or QR codes -- that are much like bar codes found on the sides of cereal boxes and other commercial products.

Beth Israel has begun posting QR codes on the doorways to patients’ rooms. Each code is unique to that patient, linked to his records that are stored on the hospital’s electronic database. Before entering the room, the Beth Israel doctor can scan the QR code with his Glass, and the patient’s information is promptly displayed on the screen.

The Glasses used by Beth Israel were modified for the hospital by a San Francisco startup called Wearable Intelligence to read the QR codes. Patient records are not shared with Google, according to hospital officials.

Other hospitals are also experimenting with Google Glass. In February, surgeons at the Indiana University Health Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis used the device during an operation to remove an abdominal tumor. Voice commands enabled the doctors to call up the patient’s MRI scans and keep the images in their field of vision for easy reference, without having to put down a scalpel.

At the University of California-Irvine Medical Center, experienced doctors have been able to monitor procedures performed by resident physicians who are wearing Glass devices that stream video live to their mentors.

Later this month, 13 doctors from around the US will gather at Google’s Cambridge office to pitch clinical uses for Glass in a contest sponsored by the Presidential Innovation Fellows program, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the website MedTech Boston.

The common goal of many Glass projects is to keep health care workers’ hands free to perform their jobs.

“It’s literally the holy grail of hospital IT,” said John Rodley, cofounder of a Cambridge startup called Twiage, which is developing an application for Glass for ambulance attendants to quickly relay patient info to hospital emergency rooms. An EMT wearing Glass could just use voice commands to snap photos of a patient’s injuries, dictate notes, and send them to the nearest ER.

Beth Israel and Wearable Intelligence plan to expand the hospital’s use of Google Glass in the near future. Additional uses could include using Glass for doctors to consult with each other remotely.

For example, at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence emergency room doctors are using the device to stream video of patients who arrive with burns or rashes to dermatologists who can help direct the course of treatment.

“It’s essentially a live teleconference from your point of view,” said Wearable Intelligence chief executive Yan-David Erlich. “You can call a physician in another wing of the hospital who can see what you see and guide you by talking just to you.”

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The great chateaux of Bordeaux - Red Obsession

Red Obsession 

The great chateaux of Bordeaux struggle to accommodate the voracious appetite for their rare, expensive wines, which have become a powerful status symbol in booming China.

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Genre: Documentary , History  | Length: 75 minutes | Land/Year: Australia/China/France/UK/Hong Kong 2013

A Bordeaux wine is any wine produced in the Bordeaux region of France, centred on the city of Bordeaux and covering the whole area of the Gironde department, with a total vineyard area of over 120,000 hectares,^[1] making it the largest wine growing area in France. Average vintages produce over 700 million bottles of Bordeaux wine, ranging from large quantities of everyday table wine, to some of the most expensive and prestigious wines in the world. 89% of wine produced in Bordeaux is red (called "claret" in Britain), with sweet white wines (most notably Sauternes), dry whites, and also (in much smaller quantities) rosé and sparkling wines (Crémant de Bordeaux) collectively making up the remainder. Bordeaux wine is made by more than 8,500 producers or châteaux. There are 54 appellations of Bordeaux wine.

The vine was introduced to the Bordeaux region by the Romans, probably in the mid-1st century, to provide wine for local consumption, and wine production has been continuous in the region since then.^[3]

In the 12th century, the popularity of Bordeaux wines in England increased dramatically following the marriage of Henry Plantagenet and Eleanor of Aquitaine.^[4]The marriage made the province of Aquitaine part of the Angevin Empire, and thenceforth the wine of Bordeaux was exported to England.^[4] At this time, Graveswas the principal wine region of Bordeaux, and the principal style was clairet. This accounts for the ubiquity of claret in England. The export of Bordeaux was interrupted by the outbreak of the Hundred Years' War between France and England in 1337.^[4] By the end of the conflict in 1453 France had repossessed the province, thus taking control of wine production in the region.^[4]

In the seventeenth century, Dutch traders drained the swampy ground of the Médocin order that it could be planted with vines, and this gradually surpassed Graves as the most prestigious region of Bordeaux. Malbec was dominant grape here, until the early 19th century, when it was replaced by Cabernet Sauvignon.^[5]

In 1855, the châteaux of Bordeaux were classified; this classification remains widely used today. From 1875-1892 almost all Bordeaux vineyards were ruined byPhylloxera infestations.^[4] The region's wine industry was rescued by grafting native vines on to pest-resistant American rootstock.

MH370: Chinese patrol ship detects pulse signal

A pinger locator sits on an Australian ship in the southern Indian Ocean during the search for the black box of the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370. Photograph: Reuters

A Chinese search ship has detected an electronic pulse in an area of the southern Indian Ocean where it is believed the missing Malaysian Airlines plane crashed, state media has announced.

"Chinese patrol ship Haixun 01 searching for flight MH370 discovered a pulse signal with a frequency of 37.5kHz per second in south Indian Ocean waters Saturday," the official news agency, Xinhua, said. It also reported that a Chinese air force plane spotted a number of white floating objects in the search area.

Anish Patel, president of Dukane Seacom – which has said it made the beacons for the flight data and cockpit voice recorders on board MH370 – told CNN the pulse was identical to the standard beacon frequency.

The Haixun 01, one of two Chinese ships in the area, picked up the signal at about 25 degrees south latitude and 101 degrees east longitude, Xinhua reported.

"It is yet to be established whether it is related to the missing jet," it said.

China's Liberation Daily reported that three people on board the ship had heard the signals, which had not been recorded because they came suddenly.

The Australian defence minister, David Johnston, said he had not received a report on the signal and warned that it may not be from the plane.

"This is not the first time we have had something that has turned out to be very disappointing," he told ABC television.

The report is the first potentially positive sign in the race against time to find the Malaysian aircraft's black box. But there is as yet no indication of whether the pulse is in fact connected to the plane, and no wreckage has been found in the area despite a massive international hunt.

Experts have warned that the electronic beacons designed to guide searchers to the flight data and cockpit voice recorders will stop emitting signals within the next two weeks, and perhaps even within the next few days, as they run out of power.

The Beijing-bound Boeing 777 disappeared in the early hours of 8 March, shortly after taking off from Kuala Lumpur with 239 people on board. Investigators believe it was deliberately diverted from its course, but experts say that without the flight data and cockpit voice recorders there is little hope of finding out who was responsible and why. Even then, they caution that the information may not shed much light on the mystery.

Multiple countries are involved in the search, with 13 aircraft and at least 11 vessels scouring an area some 1,700 kilometres north-west of Perth on Saturday.

Australia is leading the hunt for the plane. Authorities there have yet to comment on the Xinhua report.

More than 150 of those on board the flight were Chinese nationals and China has contributed several ships and vessels to the search.

Malaysia said on Saturday it had launched an investigation into the disappearance of MH370 that would bring together international aviation experts.

The defence and acting transport minister, Hishammuddin Hussein, told a news conference that Australia, China, the US, the UK and France had agreed to take part in the investigation. The team would examine maintenance records, flight recorders, meteorology and "medical and human factors", including psychology.

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Google Glass...

Google Glass users get mostly warm reception

Despite the controversy around Google Glass, early adopters say the attention they've received has been mostly positive.

JR Curley got a pair of Google Glass in November. Not once has he been asked to take off Glass in an establishment and no one has expressed discomfort that he might be taking photographs of them he said. (Brian van der Brug, Los Angeles Times / April 3, 2014)

SAN FRANCISCO — At 6 feet 4 inches, JR Curley is used to getting noticed.

Just not like this. Ever since he got a pair of Google Glass in November, he has been turning heads at the grocery store, in restaurants, on the street, even at Disneyland.

People approach him all the time to ask about his head-mounted, Internet-connected computer, which is worn like a pair of glasses. He spends so much time letting them try on Glass that his wife has begun referring to herself as the "Glass bystander."

For all the controversy Glass has generated for its ability to take pictures or film video with a simple gesture or voice command, Curley says the attention Glass gets on the streets of Los Angeles has been positive.

Not once has he been asked to take off Glass in an establishment and no one has expressed discomfort that he might be taking photographs of them or video recording them, he said.

In fact, he's the one who has had to get accustomed to people whipping out their smartphones and taking pictures of him without first asking permission.

"As with any new technology, the more people have it, the more it generates a broad understanding," said Curley, 41, a design studio director of an accounting firm who lives in Manhattan Beach.

Curley and dozens of others who are early testers of the device report little or no backlash from the public. In fact, they say a series of high-profile yet isolated incidents have given Glass an unfair rap.

Glass users have been tossed from movie theaters. The device has been banned in bars, restaurants and casinos. A San Diego woman was pulled over for driving with Glass, and a few states are considering banning drivers from using Glass out of concern that the small screen will distract them on the road.

One of the most notorious incidents took place in a San Francisco bar in February when social media consultant Sarah Slocum said she was attacked for wearing Glass. Despite allegations from bar patrons, Slocum denied surreptitiously recording anyone there. But court records show that in 2012 her neighbors got a restraining order against her for crouching outside their open window and recording them with her smartphone.

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http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-google-glass-20140404,0,4163189.story#ixzz2xyhd75XE