For months now, it has seemed as if Google Glass sought to find a niche in the healthcare realm. First, an Ohio State Medical School professor used the wearable technology device to give his students a first-person view of a surgical procedure. Now, a California-based startup company has created a new application that will turn Google Glass into the first “wearable health record.”

According to a report from Reuters, the startup in question is a Mountain View, California company called Drchrono. The application that the company has developed supposedly came as a result of “growing demand for Google Glass from physicians.” It will allow doctors to record consultations, check-ups, surgeries, and other medical procedures – with the patient’s consent, of course – and then store videos, photos, and notes about the procedures in the patient’s medical history file. The information can also be shared directly with patients online, thanks to a partnership between Drchrono and Box, a cloud-based storage platform.

The main concern with recording and sharing bits and pieces of a patient’s medical record is that the information could fall into the wrong hands. However, Dr. Bill J. Metaxas, a San Francisco-based doctor, said that medical professionals merely have to be vigilant in learning how to use the security settings of Glass to their advantage. Metaxas, who uses the Glass routinely in his work as a podiatrist, says that most patients agree to letting him use the device during procedures.

The Drchrono app highlights a growing trend for the still-unreleased Google Glass that is taking the device away from the consumer market and toward more professional service applications. That might be why Glass still has no release date. Google may still be trying to figure out if it has more to gain through continuing to market the device toward a broad consumer market, or to focus instead on the industry professionals who have already begun to embrace its hands-free capabilities.