Jacqueline Shreibati will join Google's health clinical team and report to chief health officer Karen DeSalvo.
Jacqueline Shreibati is moving to Google Health from AliveCor.is scooping up Jacqueline Shreibati, the chief medical officer for medical wearables start-up AliveCor, the search giant confirmed to CNBC on Tuesday.
The Google Health team is still determining its overarching strategy, but is known to be working on tools to help doctors search through medical records, and to further research into how technology can help detect eye disease more quickly,The team drew some unwanted attention recently over a project with hospital chain Ascension to use artificial intelligence to help doctors treat patients, as privacy advocates and some members of Congress worried that Google would use patient data for other...
It's unclear whether Shreibati, with her hardware background, will work with Fitbit. That company remains separate for now, as the deal is under investigation from the Department of JusticeAliveCor, which competes in the medical wearables space with Apple, sells devices to monitor people at risk for a heart rhythm irregularity called atrial fibrillation, which is a leading cause of strokes.
But it has seen some turnover in its executive ranks in recent months. Gundotra stepped down in January and was replaced with an interim executive, before the company hired former. Now it has another interim leader, the company's founder Dave Albert, in the role of chief medical officer.
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