{"id":24969,"date":"2016-04-25T17:03:55","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T00:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/new-funding-could-bring-google-glass-to-more-hospitals"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:12:43","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:12:43","slug":"new-funding-could-bring-google-glass-to-more-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/new-funding-could-bring-google-glass-to-more-hospitals","title":{"rendered":"New Funding Could Bring Google Glass To More Hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The consumer version of Google Glass<\/a> smart wearable probably won\u2019t be coming to the market anytime soon, but it seems like the project is far from dead. Namely, one of the startups which came to being after Google originally revealed its hi-tech headset several years ago is now raising new capital in order to bring Google\u2019s optical head-mounted display into more hospitals and other health care facilities. The company in question is Augmedix, one of the ten official \u201cGoogle Glass for Work\u201d partners. Its main activity is developing software for wearable devices utilized in the medical industry, i.e. co-developing inventions which should make doctors\u2019 lives easier. As Augmedix\u2019s CEO Ian Shakil puts it, the doctors are \u201cengaging with patients in front of them\u201d while his company\u2019s inventions are taking care of the \u201cburdensome work in the background\u201d.<\/p>\n

Augmedix managed to raise $17 million of strategic investment capital from five institutions: TriHealth Inc., Sutter Health, Catholic Health Initiatives, Dignity Health, and a fifth, yet unnamed entity. This is the second round of funding the Silicon Valley company managed to secure in just over a year after raising $16 million in 2015. In total, the groups which financed Augmedix\u2019s endeavors represent more than 100,000 health care providers. Naturally, the company can\u2019t yet aim to deliver 100,000 of smart wearables designed for the medical industry, but it\u2019s slowly getting there. Specifically, it\u2019s currently providing equipment and services to hundreds of physicians and surgeons and is hoping to do the same with \u201cthousands\u201d more by 2017. No concrete figures have been provided by Augmedix, though the startup did confirm that it\u2019s currently achieving a \u201cmulti-million dollar revenue\u201d on a yearly basis.<\/p>\n

What does this all mean for Google Glass? Well, despite the plans for the consumer version of the headset being momentarily dropped by Google, the Work program designed to deliver the said piece of hardware to various industries around the world is still going strong, and Augmedix is one of Google\u2019s key partners in this business endeavor. Google Glass 2.0, officially called Project Aura is currently in development for enterprise applications and it seems like it has a very bright future in the medical industry as Augmedix claims its internal study concluded that close to 100 percent of patients are completely fine with their doctors using augmented reality (AR) headsets. In addition to that, it\u2019s worth noting that Glass is the dominant platform Augmedix sells its services on, so it makes sense that this latest round of funding will see it end up in more heath care facilities in the very near future.<\/p>\n

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