Patent ID: 7572127

Claim:
An apparatus for viewing information, comprising: a wireless interactive monitor including a screen for displaying said information and adapted to receive said information from a memory, and a central processing unit (CPU) that regulates access to information according to user specific identifiers, further wherein said wireless interactive monitor includes speech recognition software; a surgeon scrub sink for allowing a surgeon and/or hospital personnel to sterilize the hands of the surgeon, positioned under said wireless interactive monitor, further wherein the interactive monitor is free from contact with said scrub sink; said monitor having received said information wirelessly; wherein said information is surgical information or pharmaceutical information; an earpiece that wirelessly transmits one of said user specific identifiers to said wireless interactive monitor for recognition by said CPU and wirelessly receives audio information, wherein upon recognition of the user specific identifier said CPU permits access to at least one group of programs for display and executes voice commands to selectively receive information.