He was about to examine me while streaming video of our encounter to a scribe some 8,000 miles away in India, one of more than 500 doctors nationwide to have turned Google Glass into a health technology. After I changed into a medical gown, Phelan placed the headset over his eyes and turned it on. When Ian Shakil, the chief executive of Augmedix, the company distributing Google Glass for use by doctors, first told me that he wanted the device to become as familiar as a stethoscope, I was incredulous. In the doctor’s office, it was no longer the same Google Glass that technology journalists like me had scoffed at. It had been dismissed as another Google whim, a solution in search of a problem — and a privacy conundrum in its own right.

Source: Washington Post September 27, 2016 22:42 UTC