Sina Science and Technology News on the evening of August 20, Beijing time, it is reported thatAlphabet Inc-CL CGoogle Health, its health unit, will be disbanded and its head, David Feinberg, will leave on September 1st.
According to an internal memo, Google Health's projects and teams will be dispersed to Alphabet Inc-CL CDifferent departments of. Meanwhile, electronic medical records giant Cerner announced today that Feinberg will join the company as CEO and president.
Google Heath was founded in 2018 and was led by Feinberg, then CEO of Geisinger Health, a respected medical executive. Google Heath has always been an important product division for Alphabet Inc-CL C, with about 700 employees working on research, imaging, clinical tools and health sensors as of March this year.
Jeff Dean, Feinberg's director and head of Alphabet Inc-CL C's research department, said in a memo to employees today that Google Health would no longer operate as a unified organization.
According to the memo, Alphabet Inc-CL C Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Karen de Salvo (Karen DeSalvo), who leads the regulatory and clinical team, will report to Alphabet Inc-CL C Chief legal Officer (CLO) Kent Walker (Kent Walker).
Google Health's team of clinicians, who are building a tool to make it easier for doctors to search health records, will report directly to Dean. Google Health's AI team, which focuses on projects such as medical imaging, will report to Yossi Matias, vice president of search and artificial intelligence.
In response, a spokesman for Alphabet Inc-CL C said in a statement: "Alphabet Inc-CL C firmly believes that the power of technology can improve health, and we have increased the health investment of the whole company." This includes development projects within Google Health to launch and expand health-related functions on search, Maps and YouTube, covering billions of people. "
In June, Alphabet Inc-CL C restructured Google Health and about 130 employees were transferred to other departments.
Except for Alphabet Inc-CL CAppleHealth-care programs don't seem to be going well enough. It was reported yesterday that Apple IncIt is scaling back a key project in its health department, the HealthHabit application.
Currently, 50 employees have been in charge of HealthHabit, but two people familiar with the matter said that if some of them could not find other positions within Apple Inc in the coming weeks, they would be fired. A person familiar with the matter said that HealthHabit may continue to exist in the future, but the staff and functions will be reduced; of course, it may also be completely shut down.