Apple Brings On Former Google Executive To Lead iPhone Healthcare Projects

Apple is hiring a former Google executive and robotics expert to lead some of its healthcare initiatives on the iPhone. Yoky Matsuoka, one of the co-founders of Google's X lab and former head of technology at home sensor company Nest, will work with Apple Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams to flesh out its health projects. Matsuoka will be charged with developing apps for the tech giant's HealthKit, ResearchKit for medical studies and its CareKit for people looking to improve their medical care.

Matsuoka spent a decade in academia at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, and the . . .