Google Dismantling Health Division

"According to an internal memo obtained by Insider, an initiative to consolidate various healthcare initiatives within Google is shutting down.

This news comes a few days after healthcare IT company Cerner announced Google Health lead David Feinberg was joining its company as president and CEO.

Feinberg joined Google in 2018 to lead the initiative of organizing Google’s fragmented health initiatives, which at the time overlapped throughout different businesses. The reincarnation of Google Health also hoped to further offer AI and other new technologies to traditional healthcare systems to better digitalize their processes.

It appears that the future of Google Health will look like the past: Jeff Dean, the Senior VP of Google’s Research and Health efforts, said the unit will no longer operate as a unified organization. Instead, a group constructing a health records search platform for physicians will report directly to him..." Lire la suite