Remedy, a new app for Google Glass, thinks that the medical industry might be where the controversial headset could really shine.
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Remedy was founded by two sisters, one a Thiel fellow and the other a medical student. The app recently partnered with three Boston-area hospitals for a tryout. The Glass app will be paired with some desktop software also being used by the hospitals.
The visual app will replace an often-made phone call between physician assistants and surgeons. Normally, the assistant will simply describe the patient's condition verbally. Now, Remedy hopes, the assistant can simply take some photos or video with his or her Glass and share it with the surgeons.
"Doctors and nurses spent more time looking at computer screens than at patients," the company claims on their website. "Critical moments for the sickest patients were lost looking for imaging results and lab updates buried in unlabeled CDs or huge stacks of printed reports. Paper forms were both redundant over electronic forms and full of contradictory information."
Talking to TechCrunch, the two sisters noted that doctors didn't really want fancy vital signs indicators splashed in front of their eyes like something out of a sci-fi flick. Instead, many of the doctors and physician assistants they talked to just wanted a simple point-and-click image and video recorder, a simplified app to do a very important task.
