“Amazon’s Grand Challenge team, its equivalent of the Google X lab for moonshot technologies, has made its latest high-profile health care hire.”
“The company has quietly scooped up Taha Kass-Hout, the former U.S. Food and Drug Administration chief health informatics officer, according to a source with knowledge of the hire.”
“Kass-Hout will serve in a business development role focusing on health care projects. He will work alongside Amazon Grand Challenge chief Babak Parviz, a former director at Google X who joined Amazon in 2014 as a vice president.”
“Amazon has remained secretive about its health care ambitions, with a few exceptions…” Read the full article here.
Source: Amazon is hiring a former FDA official to work on its secretive health tech business – By Christina Farr, March 16, 2018. CNBC.
