HealthTech October 16, 2025
Smart glasses paired with artificial intelligence can emerge as a new tool to improve safety and precision in healthcare.
From streamlining documentation to guiding surgical procedures, visual aids such as AI-enabled smart glasses could help reshape healthcare. One immediate application that could have a strong impact is preventing medication errors, long a critical challenge in high-pressure clinical environments.
Researchers at the University of Washington demonstrated how wearable cameras paired with AI can detect mistakes during drug preparation with near-perfect accuracy. In findings published in 2024, the team reported that its system correctly recognized which medications were being drawn in busy operating rooms and intensive-care units, achieving 99.6% sensitivity and 98.8% specificity at spotting vial-swap errors.
Dr. Kelly Michaelsen, co-lead author...
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