http://youtu.be/djVMu8kL_po Heavyweight Philips announced it partnered with Accenture to bring a Google Glass patient data delivery proof-of-concept to life. This means it’s not just startups investing and innovating in the Google Glass space in healthcare anymore. Above, watch the (highly disclaimed) video of the proof-of-concept. It’s the early days, but this is the first bold […]
The founders of Augmedix still haven’t revealed exactly what the stealthy Google Glass startup is up to, but at Rock Health’s Demo Day Tuesday, they gave some insight into the early traction the nascent company has found with investors and users. The company has four pilots up and running, employs about 20 people and is […]
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.
There are lots of people who think Google Glass is the answer to many healthcare problems: emergency response, surgical work flow, patient interaction. The jury is still out on its value because the device is too new and not in wide enough circulation to be put to the test of reality. However, this video from […]
Liz Gannes of AllThingsD reports that Sergey Brin and Anne Wojcicki have split up. The rumor is that Brin is dating the Google employee who coined the phrase, “OK, Glass.” Brin and Wojcicki have been married six years and have two kids. Brin’s company – Google – has invested millions of dollars into Wojcicki’s company […]
Dr. Ted Eytan and Stephanie Nguyen of Silica Labs created this prototype for a doctor-patient interaction using Google Glass. The software could offer a doctor a quick scan of a patient’s basic information when she enters the exam room. This could include everything from a map of where the person lives to what she prefers […]
An optometrist most recently compared my eyes to Olympic runners. I see at 20/10. (Don’t be jealous, Internet. I work on the computer all day, so this super-skill is not long for this world.) When I was seven, I tried to fail my eye test. I was (at the time) the only person in my […]
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.
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.
After wearing Google Glass for a month, Kyle Samani, co-founder of Pristine, says that the unit is useless as a consumer device. “The social awkwardness doesn’t justify the value of wearing it,” he said. “The smart phone is really good at what it does and Glass isn’t a substitute.” Samani sees enterprise apps as the […]
Google Glass for healthcare may be moving from hashtag to reality faster than you think. A HIT consultant and a software developer quit their jobs on June 14 with no paycheck in sight. On June 20, the team at Pristine had a $100,000 investment from an anesthesiologist to build software for Google Glass. Kyle Samani […]
Metadata is in the news now, but it is invisible to most of us (unless you are a contractor for the National Security Administration). Most of us will never see the details of your colleagues’ cell phone calls (who they are calling, where they are making the call from, or how long it lasts) or […]
Canada has a proud history of achievement in the areas of science and technology, and the field of biomanufacturing and life sciences is no exception.
More than 60 companies showed off their health data applications at Datapalooza IV this week and Krishna Yeshwant, a partner at Google Ventures, was the MC for a demo session on Tuesday afternoon. As one of the presenters was fighting with his PowerPoint demonstration and the projection system, Yeshwant answered a few questions about opportunities […]
It seems privacy issues related to Google Glass are drawing government attention. A committee in the U.S. Congressional Privacy Caucus sent a letter to Google chief executive Larry Page asking just how the company plans to protect both people wearing the device and the people it records. The group was particularly interested in the idea […]
While there’s a lot of talk about how Google Glass could one day be used in hospitals, hackers are creating that future today. A group of programmers has created an app for Glass that would allow doctors to pull up patient files just by looking at their faces. The app, dubbed MedRefGlass, is still in its […]
Some of the venture capital investors behind the Glass Collective, a project that will provide seed funding for developers and companies creating apps for Google Glass, said recently that they’re particularly interested in medical applications for the Glass. They’re definitely not the only ones. While Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Andreessen Horowitz […]