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How This Google Glass Startup Is Saving Doctors Time

Ian Shakil and Pelu Tran help doctors by slashing data-entry work, thanks to Google Glass.
Source: Gabriela Hasbun

After meeting at Stanford University’s biodesign program, Ian Shakil and Pelu Tran began tossing around concepts for a health-care startup. In the summer of 2012, after trying Google Glass for the first time, an idea came into focus: What if they created a service for doctors—powered by the device—to record, store and retrieve patient health records? And what

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