Bangladeshi-origin Ian Shakil’s Google Glass startup ‘largest’

Augmedix Inc, a startup that uses Alphabet Inc's Google Glass to provide documentation services to doctors and other healthcare workers, has said it closed a $17 million funding round led by investment firm Redmile Group.

Augmedix's employees transcribe doctors' notes and update patients' electronic medical record using Google Glass.
 
Reuters news agency reported the San Francisco company, which has raised $40 million so far, also said on Monday it had received investments from five US healthcare networks, including Sutter Health and Dignity Health, which together have more than 100,000 healthcare workers.
 
Augmedix, with 400 employees, told Reuters it serves doctors in all 50 US states.
 
Funds raised will be used to build up the service to serve more health systems and private clinics, the company told Reuters.
 
Augmedix is one of 10 partners authorised by Alphabet to deliver enterprise services through Google Glass.
 
It is the first and largest Google Glass startup of any kind, according to State of Reform, an initiative aimed at bridging the ‘gaps’ between healthcare and health policy.
 
Augmedix’s Bangladeshi-origin Co-Founder and CEO Ian Shakil told State of Reform’s Managing Editor JJ Lee in an interview that his company recently received strategic investments from five major health systems including Sutter Health, Dignity Health, Catholic Health Initiatives, and TriHealth.
 
“It’s not every day that you see five health systems come together and invest in a disruptor like Augmedix,” State of Reform quoted Shakil as saying, “I think that signals something pretty awesome is going on.”
 
Shakil’s father runs a steel mill in Bangladesh.