"NHS to pilot smart goggles to free up time for community nurses"

c/o Digital Health:

"The NHS is to trial the use of smart goggles that will be worn by community nurses on home visits in order to free up time with patients.

Providing that the patient consents, the virtual reality style headset can transcribe the appointment directly to electronic records, reducing time-consuming admin for nurses.

Staff will have the ability to share live footage directly with hospital colleagues to get a second opinion, avoiding the need for further appointments or hospital admission."

Read more at Digital Health ...

My source:

Eleanor Hayward, Smart goggles give nurses advice during home visits, The Times, 20th August 2022, p.16.

Event January 2022: How VR and other technologies will impact the future of NHS service delivery

Hi all,

Hope you’re keeping well.

I’m working with the South-West AHSN to put on a Future of Care distinguished address in January featuring Health Futurist Dr. Shafi Ahmed talking about how VR and other technologies will impact the future of NHS service delivery; it should get Universities thinking about how our teaching and learning needs to develop.  I’m hoping it will be a really inspiring event for colleagues as well as our students at the University.

It will be an online as well as on campus event, although given the way Omicron is going could well be just online.

The event is planned for Thursday January 20^th 2022, 7-8pm.

I wondered if it would be possible to promote this within your organisations for colleagues to sign up to if interested.

The flyer is available online here > https://pub.lucidpress.com/future-of-care-event/

Best wishes

Rob

Rob Blagden

Director of Libraries, Technology and Information

University of Gloucestershire

FW103, Fullwood House

The Park, Cheltenham

GL50 2RH

Email: rblagden AT glos.ac.uk

My source: NHS-HE-FORUM list

ERCIM News No. 103 Special Theme: "Augmented Reality"

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ERCIM News No. 103 has just been published at

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Special Theme: "Augmented Reality"
http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/en103/special

Guest editors:
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- Eija Kaasinen, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd

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ERCIM News No. 102 Special Theme: "Trustworthy Systems of Systems"

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ERCIM News No. 102 has just been published at http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/en102

Special Theme: "Trustworthy Systems of Systems"
Guest editors: Poul Heegaard, NTNU and Erwin Schoitsch, Austrian Institute of Technology
http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/en102/special

Keynote by Werner Steinhögl, Programme Officer at the European Commission, Components and Systems, Directorate General CONNECT: "Trustworthy Systems of Systems – A Prerequisite for the Digitalization of Industry"  
http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/en102/keynote

Invited contribution by Andreas Wild, Executive Director of the ECSEL Joint Undertaking: "ECSEL JU Launches Research and Innovation Actions Strengthening European Competitiveness"
http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/en102/special/ecsel-ju-launches-research-and-innovation-actions-strengthening-european-competitiveness

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Italian IBM employees on strike on Second Life & VR in Nursing: an (old) story

I've been interested in Virtual Reality since TRON as this blog suggests, but just have not had the real-world time to get to grips with SECOND LIFE and other virtual worlds.

I came across this post from Loïc Le Meur - serial entrepreneur and blogger. It's quite a RW - VR development:

Italian IBM employees on strike on Second Life

In the UK (and elsewhere) is this a way for workers especially in the public sector - prisons (which hit UK news this past week) and health to take action without as Loïc Le Meur's post explains holding anyone hostage?

<->

This seems really corny now, but back in 1991 I wrote a 'story' on VR in nursing:

WHERE HAVE ALL THE NURSES GONE?

A short story subtitled:

"... LISTEN NURSE, I’M SEVENTY NINE, YOU’RE EIGHTEEN -
YOU CAN’T SEE MY PROBLEMS"

As a student on my first ward 1977-1978 I remembered what an elderly lady said to me ... wish I could remember my response...