Sacramento-based Sutter Health, San Francisco-based Dignity Health, Colorado-based Catholic Health Initiatives, Cincinnati-based TriHealth Inc. and a fourth investor that asked to remain anonymous have made a combined $17 million investment in Augmedix Inc., a San Francisco startup that uses Google Glass technology to maintain electronic health records and thus free physicians to spend more time with their patients,The Sacramento Bee reported.
The combined systems have more than 100,000 health care providers treating millions of patients nationwide.
Officials said that the funding will let Augmedix and its investors expand the Google Glass-powered service across health systems and private clinics nationwide.
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