Health Reading List | December 04, 2015 |
Startup Highlight: Evena Medical
Heads up displays in medicine have had mixed amounts of utility in medicine, there have been some great examples of Google Glass being used in surgical settings to improve outcomes, but also not so great examples of Google Glass as a quasi-EHR inputting tool. Evena Medical has a pretty novel, proprietary heads up display that can actually provide real time insights into the veins of the person a nurse or physician is seeing (something that previously needed a handheld device).
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