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Pristine Nabs $5.5M To Expand Telehealth Through Google Glass

by Fred Pennic 09/29/2014 Leave a Comment

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iPatientCare Updates Its Wearable EHR App for Google Glass_Pristine Nabs $5.5M To Expand Telehealth Through Google Glass
Google Glass medical app developers Pristine, announced today that it has raised $5.5M in Series A financing to expand telehealth through Google Glass. Pristine is only company that has developed a HIPAA-compliant video streaming and checklist solutions for Google Glass. The round was led by S3 Ventures which also included Capital Factory, HealthFundr, and a syndicate of strategic clients. The funding will be used to expand the company’s R&D, sales, marketing, and operations teams, supporting the company’s rapid growth.
To date, Pristine’s technology is currently in use by more than 20 clients, who use Pristine’s platform (EyeSight) in hospitals, ambulances, and even patients’ homes across the US. Several major pharma, manufacturing, and medical device companies are also working with Pristine on remote support and field service applications for EyeSight. 
“We have deployed EyeSight in ERs, ORs, ICUs, ambulances, and even patients’ homes,” added Samani. “We understand that security is paramount. There is a lot of misinformation about Glass and privacy out in the wild; we have gone the extra mile to guarantee security and control for our clients. Our utmost focus on security will fuel our growth as we scale our wearable communication technology throughout healthcare and across other industries.”
Matters of privacy and HIPAA compliance are some of the biggest hurdles for Google Glass, at least in the USA. To use the Google Glass in a clinical setting, for example, the device will have to be cleared to transmit patient data through the device. Aside from ensuring that there are proper security protocols in place, there is more to consider. Like if the Google Glass-compatible apps used in conjunction with the device also uphold the level of security required to comply with HIPAA regulations. One way to work around this is to avoid using Google’s mirror API, according to Pristine’s CEO and co-founder Kyle Samani when asked about the topic in an interview with Pioneers.

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Kyle Samani, Pristine’s CEO

 “The mirror API is pretty much unusable for anything healthcare related, because everything gets routed through Google’s own servers. Google told us flat out, ‘We do not want you putting healthcare data on our servers.’ Google knows the privacy advocates will be all over them for it, so they’re discouraging it from the start.”

Samani and his team had to keep that in mind when developing Pristine’s Eyesight (an app that provides streaming video between Glass and mobile devices) as well as its CheckLists app (which provides check list prompts during clinical procedures).

As a result, Pristine keeps all the data transmitted via its app behind a hospital’s firewall; no data from Glass ever leaves the network.  “It literally becomes 10 times harder to close the deal and make things happen when the ‘This lives inside your firewall’ and ‘This doesn’t live inside your firewall’ conversations begin.’ We made the decision to install our software locally to avoid exactly this debate,” said Samani.

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