Toby Cosgrove, MD, Cleveland Clinic’s former CEO, will be an executive adviser to the Google Cloud team’s health care and life sciences divisions. In his new role, Dr. Cosgrove will help Google achieve its goals of lowering health care costs, improving consumer experience, advancing population health, and reducing administrative burdens for provider organizations and staff.
Dr. Cosgrove brings several decades of experience in American medicine to Google, and has also established himself as a respected leader in health care. Google Cloud’s health care and life sciences divisions are currently strongly focused on how artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning can be utilized to help streamline and automate workflows in ways that do not inhibit the relationship between the clinical professional and consumer.
Google is an American multinational technology company that specializes in internet-related services and products. The company offers Google Search, which provides information online; Google Now that offers information to users; AdWords, an auction-based advertising program; AdSense, which enables websites that are part of the Google network to deliver ads; DoubleClick Ad Exchange, a marketplace for the trading display ad space; and other advertising platforms, such as AdExchange and AdMob.
This was reported by Becker’s Health IT & CIO Report on July 24, 2018.
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