Snapchat Spectacle debuts in operating room

With the new Snapchat Spectacles, Shafi Ahmed, MD, PhD, was able to broadcast a hernia repair surgery to the social networking app. His utilization of the app opens the door to what physicians can do to integrate further into the social media space.

Recording 10 second clips at a time, the Snapchat Spectacles provide unique points of view of the wearer. With this first person view, Ahmed gave his pupils at the London Independent Hospital a look into the view of a procedure they would one day be performing.

“The Snapchat platform is really interesting because it mimics who we are,” he says. “It thinks on a 24-hour, short-term basis, and we, as individuals, work in short-term basis. We see things; we forget about them. Some goes into our long-term memory, but most of it, 95 percent of it, is all short-term.”

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Cara Livernois, News Writer

Cara joined TriMed Media in 2016 and is currently a Senior Writer for Clinical Innovation & Technology. Originating from Detroit, Michigan, she holds a Bachelors in Health Communications from Grand Valley State University.

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