Cleveland Clinic’s ex-CEO Cosgrove to be advisor to Google Cloud

Former CEO and president of the Cleveland Clinic, Toby Cosgrove, MD, will be an executive advisor to Google Cloud’s healthcare and life sciences team.

Currently an executive advisor to the Cleveland Clinic, Cosgrove will aim to improve patient experience and population health, while reducing costs. The team will look to combine technology in healthcare, including electronic health records, with an engaged medical staff.

“[Cosgrove] 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," Moore, MD, PhD, vice president of healthcare for Google Cloud. "We're thrilled to have Dr. Cosgrove on board to help us tackle the Quadruple Aim, drawing on his several decades of experience at the forefront of American medicine."

Cosgrove, who reportedly turned down a role in Donald Trump’s cabinet as Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, retired at the end of 2017. He served as an adviser Trump on the Strategic and Policy Forum before it was ended in late 2017

Cosgrove expressed his excitement on Twitter last week:

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