Toby Cosgrove, the former CEO of the famous Cleveland Clinic joins Executive Advisor to the Google Cloud Healthcare and Life Sciences team as a
“…Here at Google Cloud, we firmly believe in the power of data to advance healthcare, but we also know how easy it is to be overwhelmed by it. The Google Cloud Healthcare and Life Sciences team rely on the expertise of both internal and external clinicians and other care providers to help balance the advances in digital health with the impact on those who provide care. As such, we’re pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Toby Cosgrove as Executive Advisor to the Google Cloud Healthcare and Life Sciences team.
Prior to this appointment, Dr. Cosgrove was CEO at Cleveland Clinic, and is a widely respected thought leader in the healthcare space. Over the course of his career, he has seen firsthand how digitization has improved—and hampered—healthcare.
“Among practitioners, everyone talks about ‘pajama time’”—spending a couple of hours every night to complete their administrative duties, Dr. Cosgrove says. And while patients benefit from streamlined sharing of medical records and improved diagnoses that have resulted from the digitization of healthcare data, they miss the warmth and connection they used to have with their providers.
Technology may have been the cause of some of these challenges, but we believe that it can also be the cure. Machine learning and AI are particularly promising with their new and timely insights when it comes to improving the work experience of providers. Meanwhile, streamlining and automating workflows can reduce the time it takes to accomplish simple tasks like refilling a prescription, and can even help improve provider efficiency by scanning large, clinically complex data sets or images and flagging areas of concern—freeing up time to interact with patients….”
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