If you want to get noticed at a conference about healthcare innovation, show up wearing Google Glass.
Software developer Kyle Samani wore his device to CONVERGE on Tuesday while representing his startup, Pristine. Samani and co-founder Patrick Kolencherry, a programmer and data scientist, think Glass will revolutionize the operating room.
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Although it’s over-hyped as a consumer device and won’t replace smartphones, Samani says it will the biggest impact in enterprise. And because it’s hands-free and always there, Glass has an obvious home in the operating room on nurses, surgeons and anesthesiologists. These are people whose jobs keep them always moving around, working with their hands, using computers and typing in their passwords.
Samani and Kolencherry are developing a suite of apps for clinicians to use during surgery, pre-op and post-op. He wouldn’t go into much more detail about specifically what the startup is working on, but Samani said the startup is “flirting with nine hospitals” and plans to begin its first pilot in August.
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