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Google brings Geisinger CEO on board to focus on healthcare

November 10, 2018 12:39 AM UTC

Beyond a quick mention of Verily Life Sciences LLC and AI, Google Inc. is saying little about what it plans to do with its healthcare initiatives now that David Feinberg is leaving Geisinger Health System (Danville, Pa.) as CEO to take on a leadership role at the Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) unit.

Jeffrey Dean, Google AI senior fellow and co-founder of Google Brain, said in a tweet that Feinberg is coming aboard to help organize the company's "health efforts," use "AI to improve healthcare globally" and enhance "collaborations with Verily and across Alphabet."...