A team of paramedics rushes to the aid of a young man experiencing severe arrhythmia, while a cardiologist watches and advises from a computer in his office at a nearby hospital. This new video put together by a group at the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland offers a glimpse at what emergency care might […]
Never mind reimbursement codes and getting doctors to adopt your new technology, patients are the ones who will make or break healthcare startups, according to one entrepreneur. Homero Rivas, MD, is not only co-founder of Apps4Patients, a small startup that has designed and created several mobile phone applications for patients. He is also a Google Glass […]
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
Just about a year ago, Orlando Portale, chief innovation officer at Palomar Health, a public health district in San Diego County, was driving up the California coast to the investment summit put on by former national health IT coordinator Dr. David Brailer. “This term ‘Glassomics’ just popped into my head,” he said. Soon after, Portale […]
I’m now able to publicly write about the work that Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has been doing with stealthy start up, Wearable Intelligence. We’ve been working over the past 4 months on pilots that I believe will improve the safety, quality and efficiency of patient care through the integration of wearable technology such as […]
The choice between innovative healthcare technologies frequently comes down to practical necessity. Evena Medical’s approach to solving the problem of finding veins more efficiently definitely scores a lot of points on that front. In our Elite Eight matchup Evena Medical won the popular vote over Pristine’s use of Google Glass 65 percent to 35 percent. […]
We just talked about how to move digital health beyond the healthiest people in the room. Many of the wearable companies who have survived to this round of the Wearables Sweet 16 are doing just that. Instead of tracking steps taken or floors climbed, these companies are aiming to diagnose breast cancer sooner, increase access […]
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
I joined the Glass Explorer Program and have started using Google Glass with a focus on finding medical uses for this type of wearable computing technology. While I believe that it is analytics capabilities that will allow us to realize the value of health information technology, the convergence of hardware and software combined with an […]
Over the past few months, Beth Israel Deaconess has been the pilot site for a new approach to clinical information technology, wearable computing. In the Emergency Department, we’ve developed a prototype of a new information system using Google Glass, a high tech pair of glasses that includes a video camera, video screen, speaker, microphone, touch […]
Health IT startups have lots of ideas about how Google Glass could be applied to medical care, from telemedicine to information sharing. But what about doctors? How are early adopters in medicine finding Glass useful, and what opportunities do they see for future applications? Stanford Medicine X brought together four physicians and an entrepreneur via […]
It’s been more than 10 months since Google released an application provider interface for its Google Glass wearable device, and though Glass effectively remains in beta, healthcare apps are starting to pop up. Pristine co-founder and CEO Kyle Samani says the company is actually generating revenue from its Glass offerings. In October, the University of […]
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Kyle Samani of Pristine thought that the OR was the best place to introduce Google Glass to the healthcare system. His presentation at DEMO last fall involved a blood-squirting dummy on an operating table and won the company a God award. Good press is nice, but revenue is better. The company announced Monday that it […]
My 2013 year in review begins in Q4 of 2012. At the time, I was working at VersaSuite as the product manager for all clinical applications and the project manager for two grueling hospital EMR deployments. We were trying to deliver the impossible in an impossibly short period of time. I was constantly stressed and […]
This year we’ve witnessed amazing innovations in technology with everything from wearable tech like Google Glass or Nike+ to the recent introduction of Coin, one card that stores all your credit cards, debit cards, personal accounts, business accounts and other cards typically filling your wallet. The healthcare industry was no exception to the rise in […]
Kyle Samani’s Pristine.io is growing at a fast pace. Samani presented at DEMO earlier this month and won a DEMO God award. The company has raised $350,000 so far and is looking for another $100,000. One pilot project of the Glass software for surgeons has started and another will launch soon. The first pilot was at […]
Google Glass may only be the beginning for Google wearable tech in the healthcare space. Google has acquired Flutter, a gesture recognition startup, for an undisclosed sum. Flutter has developed apps for Mac OS X and Windows that allows users to control computer programs through gestures (without clicking or typing). According to Mashable: Flutter launched […]