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grins It was a perfect use of my nick, but more importantly I'm a computational epidemiologist who works on hospital acquired infections. It's mostly a curiosi

by Fomite 13y ago

grins It was a perfect use of my nick, but more importantly I'm a computational epidemiologist who works on hospital acquired infections. It's mostly a curiosity, to see if the gesture and command based Glass system results in less carriage than some other tools. It likely cuts down on some things, but I touch my own glasses all the damned time to adjust them, and I'm used to them - I've been wearing them all my life.

skue 13y ago
As someone who trained recently (after hand washing became a widespread practice), I can say that I developed a consciousness I didn't have previously. Though I don't practice now, I still get this strong sense that my hands are unclean and need to be washed when I blow my nose, touch something dirty, am around someone who is ill, etc. But not touching my face (or glasses) was a much harder habit to break and something I still do subconsciously. So I'd also be curious how often docs using Glass do this. Also, hospitals already sterilize surgical instruments, but I did a quick search and it looks like some manufacturers are designing devices meant to be deployed in nursing stations in response to mobile.[1] So maybe more use of these devices will actually drive increased use of rapid sanitizers within the clinic, as a secondary benefit. http://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/news/2013/09/steridesign-introduces-new-sterilization-devices-for-high-touch-electronic-devices.aspxhttp://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/news/2013/09/steridesign-introduces-new-sterilization-devices-for-high-touch-electronic-devices.aspx http://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/news/2013/09/steridesig...
- Fomite 13y ago
  Yeah, I'm waiting for "dump your stuff in here" boxes at nursing stations that at least give everything a UV once-over or the like.

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grins It was a perfect use of my nick, but more importantly I'm a computational epidemiologist who works on hospital acquired infections. It's mostly a curiosi

by Fomite 13y ago

skue 13y ago
As someone who trained recently (after hand washing became a widespread practice), I can say that I developed a consciousness I didn't have previously. Though I don't practice now, I still get this strong sense that my hands are unclean and need to be washed when I blow my nose, touch something dirty, am around someone who is ill, etc. But not touching my face (or glasses) was a much harder habit to break and something I still do subconsciously. So I'd also be curious how often docs using Glass do this. Also, hospitals already sterilize surgical instruments, but I did a quick search and it looks like some manufacturers are designing devices meant to be deployed in nursing stations in response to mobile.[1] So maybe more use of these devices will actually drive increased use of rapid sanitizers within the clinic, as a secondary benefit. http://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/news/2013/09/steridesign-introduces-new-sterilization-devices-for-high-touch-electronic-devices.aspxhttp://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/news/2013/09/steridesign-introduces-new-sterilization-devices-for-high-touch-electronic-devices.aspx http://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/news/2013/09/steridesig...
- Fomite 13y ago
  Yeah, I'm waiting for "dump your stuff in here" boxes at nursing stations that at least give everything a UV once-over or the like.