Friday, September 26, 2014

The digital chaperone

A chaperone is a person, apart from the doctor and the patient, present during the medical consultation whose role is to ensure propriety on the part of the doctor and the patient. Such a person is typically enrolled during consultations entailing sensitive and/or intimate examination (of for example the breast).

Dr Paul E. Shannon muses in his blog whether the time has come to introduce some sort of digital chaperone.

http://beyondclinical.wordpress.com/2013/07/26/the-digital-chaperone/

He links his concept to Google glass, through the following blog post.

http://geekdoctor.blogspot.com.au/2013/07/the-healthcare-it-applications-of.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter