Healthcare links 07/10/2014

• We streamed live surgery from South America using … – Explorers Community

  Lots of promise, but the hardware has some way to go before it can be used reliably

  tags: healthcare google-glass

  • Direct streaming worked about 30% of the time.  The majority of failures were due to inadequate wi-fi signal (60%), Glass overheating (20%), power failures (10%), or Glass’s OS freezing (10%).
  • Surgeons who wore Glass could either see the display OR capture the surgical field, but not both at the same time.
  • a >300Kbps stream generated a halfway-decent picture
  • 30 – 40-second delay in the stream

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.