Google has begun to dissolve its healthcare division as it appears to divide its healthcare projects and teams into several areas of the company. Insider reported on August 20th.
The move comes when Google Health chief David Feinberg, MD, announced he would join Kansas City, Mo-based company EHR Cerner in October as the new president and CEO.
Listed below are 15 things about Google Health’s business strategy and partnerships through 2021 based on reports from Becker Hospital Review.
Leadership and strategy
1. Google said on August 19 that it would dissolve hundreds of employees in its healthcare division into existing divisions.
2. Dr. Feinberg, Google Health’s vice president, left the company after three years as head of the CEO position at Cerner, the company said Aug. 19.
3. Google Health had 700 employees, but began relocating more than 130 employees to other areas of the company, including Search companies and the newly acquired Fitbit group, Insider reported on June 17th.
4. Dr. Feinberg told the Wall Street Journal’s health technology conference on June 9 that Google Health doesn’t care if its health care company can make a profit. He said the division focuses on global impact and that while companies are costly, revenue is a later thought.
5. In June, Google had an active to-do list for the chief of staff of the director of Google Health. The executive would work with Google’s head of health to ensure success and operational strategy.
6. Google Health hired Charles DeShazer, MD, in March to be its director of clinical products. Dr. DeShazer previously served as a CMO at the medical insurer Highmark. At Google, his role will focus on the development of Care Studio, Google’s EHR search tools pilot program.
Google collaborations with healthcare players
7. In July, researchers from Google Health, San Diego Naval Medical Center, and the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine developed an artificial intelligence model to predict cancer status. breast and better understand tumors for treatment.
8. HCA Healthcare began a multi-year collaboration with Google Cloud in May focused on creating a health data analysis platform to support the clinical and operational workflows of the Nashville, Tennessee-based system.
9. In April, Boston-based Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center joined the pilot of Google Care Studio’s EHR search tool.
10. Google announced plans to open its first office in Minnesota as part of its Rochester-based healthcare partnership with Mayo Clinic, with which the technology giant partnered in September 2019. 10-year-old focuses on cloud computing, machine learning and artificial intelligence work to promote healthcare system innovation and virtual care initiatives.
11. Ascension, based at Google and St. Louis, in February, continued the collaboration they began in 2018 by deploying a tool, called Care Studio, to help doctors better organize and search for patient information.
Google Health Projects
12. In fact, Google’s sister company in health and life sciences said on August 5 that it plans to launch a new AI research and development center in Israel. The center will focus on the use of AI to address problems and inefficiencies in the medical field, with Verily picking up some of Google Health’s projects, including the company’s initiative exploring the use of AI in colorectal cancer testing .
13. YouTube launched an initiative to combat health misinformation, which had three main axes: eliminating misinformation, reducing its dissemination, and promoting credible sources of health information, Becker said in July. YouTube has partnered with several leading medical providers to help fill its credible medical information platform, including Cleveland Clinic, Mass General Brigham, Rochester, Mayo Clinic, Stanford, California, Medicine and the Kaiser Family Foundation. YouTube said it was moving away from a paternalistic approach to health information and focused on patient engagement.
14. Google entered the early stages of a new project in April with the goal of exploring and developing a consumer-oriented health records tool for Android users. Google did not partner directly with any health care organization in the project, which could support the development of a medical records tool similar to the Apple Records health app, according to STAT.
15. Google paid $ 2.1 billion to acquire Fitbit, consolidating its advances to improve laptops. The deal was first announced on November 19 and concluded on January 14.