Profile: pristine [Resources-Start-Ups]

The phrase "the doctor will see you now" may soon mean something new. Pristine, a start-up out of Austin, Texas, has developed a telemedicine app for Google Glass that will let hospital staff send real-time audio and video to specialists, wherever they may be. Pristine cofounder Kyle Samani was working for a health-care IT company in early 2013 when Google announced the launch of Glass, which packs many of the functions of a smartphone into a sleek head-mounted device. He immediately saw Glass's potential for hospitals. "A hands-free computer in health care makes a lot of sense," Samani says. Doctors wouldn't have to worry about picking up bacteria by handling a tablet or typing on a keyboard, he says, and they could interact with their patients without turning away to enter data. "As soon as Google announced Glass, I started working on this," Samani says.