Physicians working in urgent care at Palo Alto (Calif.) Medical Foundation are using technology from Augmedix with Google Glass to cut back on time spent record keeping and focus more on patients, according to Government Technology.
Here are five observations:
1. Co-founded in 2012 by millennial entrepreneurs Ian Shakil and Pelu Tran from Stanford (Calif.) University, Augmedix is a HIPAA-compliant, San Francisco-based documentation service.
2. Augmedix streams audio and visual information to a medical scribe in India or San Francisco who updates the patient's electronic medical record.
3. Sutter Health, a nonprofit health system headquartered in Sacramento, Calif., is among the first six adopters of the technology, and is ahead in terms of the number of physicians involved.
4. Results from an 18-month pilot project involving 10 Palo Alto physicians found that notes were completed in less than five minutes 84 percent of the time and physician productivity went up by 15 percent.
5. Augmedix was named as the most innovative healthcare company of 2016 by FastCompany.com.
