If there’s one diss for a digital health device I’ve heard voiced more frequently than any other it’s this: it’s a solution or technology in search of a problem. It implies a certain level of arrogance by the inventor that a technology will be so brilliant that healthcare professionals will find a way to adapt […]
Is Google Glass quickly falling into the waste bin of seemingly great but ultimately futile ideas? That’s the view from PC Magazine UK, which likens Glass, and it’s seeming drift toward irrelevance, to buzzword trends of technology and the internet of yore, including VCRPlus and “the once ubiquitous ‘keyword’ employed by AOL.” The backlash that […]
Pristine, which harnesses Google Glass as a more manageable, hands-free approach to telemedicine as an educational tool, checklist for surgeons, consult service and medical device reps, has raised $5.4 million. S3 Ventures led the oversubscribed Series A round, but other sources of investment included Healthfundr, Capital Factory and a syndicate of investors. The funding will […]
Which company has more potential to make healthcare safer, cheaper or better? Vote for Pristine’s EyeSight or Evena Medical.
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 […]
As part of the Wearables Sweet Sixteen tourney, two wearables companies are pushing the boundaries of a 730 year-old piece of medtech: glasses. In addition to glasses, another thing Pristine and OrCam have in common is that their products involve more than just glasses: they’re cameras. Pristine uses Google Glass as a camera for another […]
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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.
