Former Trinity Health digital chief joins GE HealthCare

The former chief digital health and analytics officer of Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health has joined GE’s new healthcare spinoff as its first chief technology officer.

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Taha Kass-Hout, MD, will work to boost GE HealthCare’s precision care strategy through the use of smart devices and data insights. He will report to President and CEO Peter Arduini.

Dr. Kass-Hout was most recently vice president of machine learning and chief medical officer at Amazon Web Services. He worked at Trinity Health, where he was also a senior vice president, from 2016 to 2017. Before that, he was the FDA’s first chief health informatics officer and the director of health informatics solutions and operations for the CDC.

“As a clinician, public servant, and digital health and [machine learning] expert, I am honored to join the GE HealthCare team, whose passion, purpose and commitment to lead the digital transformation and improve outcomes for patients and providers clearly aligns with mine,” Dr. Kass-Hout said in a Jan. 5 company news release.

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