Google’s Dr. Karen says farewell
In this edition of STAT's Health Tech newsletter: Google's chief health officer leaves, Hims earnings, and more.
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Google’s chief health officer Karen DeSalvo announced she will retire this summer. DeSalvo, who likes to introduce herself as Dr. Karen, joined Google in 2019 and became the face of the company’s health efforts in 2021 when VP of health David Feinberg left to join EHR company Cerner (Now part of Oracle Health). Google at the time disbanded its formal health organization that was reeling from a controversy around data sharing with health system Ascension.
