Google Glass gets a second life in the ER

Hospitals have tried using Glass before. Some efforts involved projecting medical records into a doctor’s field of view, but physicians found the display to be too small to sort through charts and data, among other concerns. Now, a team of doctors at the University of Massachusetts Medical School may have discovered a killer app for the device—performing emergency medicine consultations. Glass, it turns out, enables off-site specialists to reliably and accurately observe and diagnose patients in real-time. It may even help first responders triage victims in disaster scenarios.