The initiatives housed in Google Health will now join other departments
Google is changing its healthcare strategy and dismantling its health division, according to an Insider report. In an internal memo obtained by Insider, the initiatives once housed in the division will now be under more general umbrellas. Google’s AI healthcare team will now report to the president of search and AI, and Dr Karen DeSalvo, Google’s CMO, as well as the divisions’ clinician team, will now report to the chief legal officer.
This comes just months after reports circulated that the tech giant was reorganising its consumer health team and moving 130 of its roughly 700 Google Health employees to the Search and Fitbit group. There were signs last week when Google Health Vice President Dr David Feinberg announced he was stepping down in order to serve as CEO at EHR company Cerner.
