Augmedix goes public through reverse merger
The company, which offers a remote scribe services, secured $25 million in private placement financing and began trading publicly on the OTC markets after a reverse merger with Malo Holdings.
Google lets users test their level of depression
The tech giant has teamed up with the National Alliance on Mental Illness to offer users access to a clinically validated depression questionnaire.
Heard at HLTH 2024: Insights from Innovative Healthcare Executives
Executives from Imagine360, Verily, BrightInsight, Lantern, and Rhapsody shared their approaches to reducing healthcare costs and facilitating digital transformation.
Google Glass gains headway in healthcare
Google Glass is back, and systems like Dignity Health and Sutter Health are making use of it to help providers save valuable time.
Health systems join $17M investment in Augmedix
Among those providers investing undisclosed amounts are Sutter Health and Dignity Health from Augmedix's home turf in Northern California, plus Englewood, Colorado-based Catholic Health Initiatives and Cincinnati-based TriHealth.
FCC’s next gen Google Glass pix offer reminder of healthcare applications for smart glasses
The device has a more robust build, a larger prism, and has a hinge that allows it to fold and is built to withstand bumps and bruises in the workplace, according to the news source 9 to 5 Google.
Google Glass-enabled navigation tool for visually disabled users gets seed funding (video)
Lux Capital and ARCH Ventures took part in the seed round.
Health Executives on Digital Transformation in Healthcare
Hear executives from Quantum Health, Surescripts, EY, Clinical Architecture and Personify Health share their views on digital transformation in healthcare.
Google developing wristband to track health
Unlike the Apple Watch or the FitBit, Google's new wristband is not meant to be a consumer device - rather, for use in clinical trials and drug tests.
Hospital robots, 3D printing and middleware, oh my! What technologies will hospitals look to this year?
As hospitals look to integrate the most advanced technology that will help them reduce readmission rates and improve outcomes, there is a lot to consider. Buzzwords abound, like big data and coordinated care, but what those things actually mean vary largely from one place to the next. In the immediate term, the ECRI Institute has […]
Google Glass startup Augmedix raises $16M
In a sign that Google Glass is perhaps not dead yet, San Francisco-based Augmedix said it has raises $16 million in a Series A round, enabling the company to target physicians with Glass combined with EHRs. The funding was led by the company’s seed investors, Emergence Capital and DCM Venturs. Augmedix has now raised $23 […]
Google Glass app used to help autistic kids
Autistic kids are making new progress with social and communication skills thanks to the Google Glass app Brain Power. Not only that, the app is giving feedback to parents in the process. The goal behind using the device is to help children understand facial expressions and emotions. The device’s accelerometer tracks head gestures to detect […]
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Market Trends to Watch for Health Systems and Their Specialty Pharmacies
The future looks bright for the integrated specialty pharmacy model – for health systems, providers, and most importantly, for patients.
Google Glass may be a technology in search of a problem, but what’s wrong with that?
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 […]
Google Glass could be hurting more than your reputation
If you are ballsy enough to run around town sporting your Google Glass gear, hats off to you. Well you probably need to take your hat off to make sure it doesn’t obstruct your device, too. But you should know, your vision could be compromised. A small new study suggests that the software is not an […]
Google Glass used to train African pediatric surgeons
A group of Los Angeles pediatric surgeons is trying to spread the use of Google Glass to Africa, where the device could help surgeons there overcome limited resources. Along with the Red Cross Children’s Hospital team, Dr. Phillip Frykma, Dr. Marc Levitt and Dr. Alp Numanoglu trained 18 surgeons from nine African countries on both […]
Is Google Glass headed for extinction?
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 taps Healthfundr, S3 Ventures in $5.4M fundraise for Google Glass for doctors
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 […]