The wearable technology trend is beginning
to take off and two big health organizations want to make sure that they’re not
left behind. In june, 2013, health
technology company Qualcomm Life and California health system Palomar Health
announced the creation of an incubator for exploring the applications of
wearable computing in medicine.
Called Glassomics, the joint program, first
reported by MedCityNews, will look at both clinical and consumer applications
of health-related wearable technology. Although the name is clearly a nod to
Google Glass, it sounds like the incubator won’t limit itself to Google
devices.
In a statement, the companies said
Glassomics is intended to encourage industry partnerships in research and
development efforts and would encompass a range of uses, from patient data
monitoring to augmented reality-enhanced clinical applications to genomic
information mapping and visualization. The incubator will be housed at Palomar
and will make use of Qualcomm Life’s 2net platform, which is the company’s
universally-interoperable network for collecting and sharing biometric data
from connected health devices.
As Google Glass hype has escalated, many
have started pointing out the device’s many potential applications in
healthcare, from making surgery more efficient to improving how doctors use and
collect data in electronic health records to enabling better telemedicine. But,
at this point, not much has actually been demonstrated. Glassonomics could play
an early role in testing the limits of Google Glass and wearable technology in
the medical arena and showing where opportunities and challenges may lie.
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