Google is betting its future on health care, but the company’s journey so far has been a little bumpy.
In 2021, three years after its creation, Google disbanded its health care division. The dissolution came after group leader David Feinberg left the company to become CEO of electronic health record company Cerner. Since then, Karen DeSalvo, a former Obama health official, has taken over and is managing staff distributed through various Google teams.
Under her watch, Google has optimized search and YouTube to better answer common health questions, updated its consumer health wearables to function more like medical devices and built artificial intelligence products to meet industry demands.