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Dr. Toby Cosgrove: 2019 will be the year of telehealth

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Toby Cosgrove, MD, former CEO of Cleveland Clinic, told CNBC he foresees 2019 as the year telehealth becomes ubiquitous.

Although telehealth has already permeated the healthcare space, many patients don’t know it exists, Dr. Cosgrove said. However, as awareness grows, patients are increasingly becoming interested in using video conferencing with their physician as a way to save a trip to a hospital. Telehealth also helps patients with chronic conditions, who may need regular monitoring.

“[Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente] is seeing over 50 percent of their patients distantly,” Dr. Cosgrove told CNBC.

Dr. Cosgrove, who now serves as an executive advisor to Google Cloud’s healthcare and life sciences team, also said the cloud will serve as a way to make the tremendous amount of data available in healthcare actionable.

“There’s an enormous amount of data and it’s a problem for us to keep track of and that’s why I think the cloud is going to come in,” he said, noting data can be stored and analyzed in the cloud. “So now you can have huge data sets that you can begin to analyze, and now that’s where [artificial intelligence] and machine learning comes in.”

“As the data goes to the cloud all the major cloud providers have come to an agreement that they will share unidentified information,” he added.

 

Sean Parker: Health care’s big breakthroughs aren’t going to come out of Google or Amazon

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Sean Parker: Health care’s big breakthroughs aren’t going to come out of Google or Amazon

Sean Parker, the tech billionaire and cancer research philanthropist, may be a product of a Silicon Valley tech giant — but he’s skeptical about the impact those companies will have as they increasingly make a play in medicine.

“I just don’t think the innovations that are going to drive this revolution in health care and discovery are going to come out of Amazon or Google,” Parker said Tuesday at an event put on by the Washington Post. “Google has a big group that’s focused on this — they’re really smart, they’re not unsophisticated, they’re not naive — but I don’t think that’s where you’re going to see the big breakthroughs happening.”

Silicon Valley’s tech giants have invested significant resources in health care and science in recent years — and attracted big-name talent.

Amazon, along with JPMorgan and Berkshire Hathaway, has launched a new health care company aimed at developing solutions that could be implemented elsewhere in the U.S. health care system.

Alphabet, Google’s parent company, has been scooping up some of the biggest names in health care. Google just hired David Feinberg, the forward-thinking CEO of the Geisinger health system, the Pennsylvania health plan and hospital system confirmed last week. Dr. Toby Cosgrove, the longtime president and CEO of Cleveland Clinic, joined Google earlier this year. And Dr. Robert Califf, the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, last year joined Verily, Alphabet’s unit working on solutions to disease.

While coders face their own formidable challenges, Parker said, “tech people coming from tech to biology so dramatically underestimate the complexity of the human body. It’s not designed by us. It doesn’t work in ways that make sense.”

Parker, the former president of Facebook, has since become a major funder of research into therapies that seek to fight cancer by harnessing the patient’s own immune system through his foundation Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, which he founded in 2016. It has funded prominent research scientists across the country, most notably James Allison, one of the recipients of this year’s Nobel Prize in medicine.

 

 

GOOGLE NABS FORMER CLEVELAND CLINIC CEO TOBY COSGROVE

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The tech giant is looking to the former exec for guidance on addressing healthcare improvement in a way that could reduce burden on providers.

Toby Cosgrove, MD, the Cleveland Clinic’s former top executive, will share a stage Tuesday afternoon with several colleagues from his new employer: Google.

Cosgrove, who served as the clinic’s CEO from 2004 through 2017, signed on as an executive advisor to the Google Cloud Healthcare and Life Sciences team, the company announced in a blog post last week. An update to his LinkedIn profile indicates he’s been in the role since January.

As part of his new role, Cosgrove will join National Institutes of Health Chief Information Officer Andrea Norris for a conversation Tuesday about how advances in cloud computing are changing healthcare.

Those advances can help stakeholders go beyond achieving the triple-aim of healthcare improvement—better patient experience, improved population health, and reduced cost—to add a fourth aim, according to Gregory J. Moore, MD, PhD, vice president of healthcare for Google Cloud, who will moderate the conversation.

Although advances in technology have added to the recordkeeping burden on healthcare workers, people like Cosgrove can help companies like Google improve the work experience of physicians and their staff, Moore wrote in the blog post.

“Technology may have been the cause of some of these challenges, but we believe that it can also be the cure,” Moore wrote.

Cosgrove, who retired from Cleveland Clinic in January, also joined the board of Denver-based healthcare IT company RxRevu, as HealthLeaders Media reported last month.

Cosgrove’s successor, Tomislav “Tom” Mihaljevic, MD, has been the clinic’s CEO since January.