The newly formed GE HealthcareCare on Thursday announced that Dr. Taha Kass-Hout will be its first chief technology officer.
WHY IT IMPORTANT
In creating the CTO role — and hiring a longtime health IT pioneer to fill the role — the new GE HealthcareCare says it is demonstrating its commitment to helping its customers drive “innovation, growth, and innovation.” growth and value through research and development.”
In her new role, Kass-Hout will work with engineering and technology teams in GE Healthcare’s four business units — Imaging, Ultrasound, Patient Care Solutions, and Pharmaceutical Diagnostics — to help with machine learning applications and innovate their clinical research and patient care tools.
Kass-Hout, who will report to GE Healthcare President & CEO Peter Arduini, will be tasked with developing a digital health framework emphasizing the company’s smart devices, in line with conditions, and leverage data and insights to enhance precision medicine and personal care companies’ capabilities.
He has long experience in the healthcare sector, in both the private and public sectors. He came to GE HealthcareCare from Amazon, where he served as chief medical officer and vice president of machine learning at AWS. Here, he helped build AI-focused initiatives like Amazon HealthLake, Amazon Comprehend Medical, and Amazon Omics.
Kass-Hout has also served two terms in the Obama Administration – as the FDA’s first director of health informatics, and as director of information science and informatics for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. US disease.
At GE HealthcareCare, he will lead clinical strategy and enterprise-wide innovation for several years, according to the company, focusing on new products that support the clinical care roadmap, prioritizing R&D investments, etc.
“As a cardiologist, digital and ML specialist, Taha has exceptional clinical and technological experience,” Arduini said in a statement. “Under his leadership, our new science and research organization will foster greater end-to-end alignment across our key research and product development segments to deliver innovative solutions that change the future of healthcare and enhance our ability to deliver precision care.”
TREND TO BIGGER
The Kass-Hout hiring comes as GE Healthcare announced last week that the subsidiary from GE is complete and that GE HealthcareCare will begin trading as a standalone company on the Nasdaq exchange.
Earlier this year, GE HealthcareCare launched its Edison digital health and data aggregation platform at HIMSS22.
Plus, read our 2021 Q&A with Kass-Hout, where he discusses how AI and machine learning are opening new avenues in personalized care, and offers recommendations on how CIOs and IT leaders should prioritize their forward-looking technology investments.
ON PROFILE
“As a clinician, public servant, and expert in machine learning and digital health, I am honored to join the GE Healthcare team whose passion, purpose, and commitment to lead Leading the digital transformation and improving outcomes for patients and providers is a clear fit for me,” said Kass-Hout in a statement.
“I’m excited about what lies ahead and the amazing opportunity to fulfill GE HealthcareCare’s purpose of creating a world where healthcare knows no bounds and set a new frontier in advancing diagnostics. personalized diagnosis and treatment for everyone.”
Email the writer: [email protected]
Healthcare IT News is a publication of HIMSS.
