Becker's Healthcare April 17, 2019
Alia Paavola

Amazon has hired top-tier leaders to oversee its push into healthcare, according to STAT.

Here are five Amazon healthcare strategy influencers to know:

1. Taha Kass-Hout, MD, senior leader of healthcare and artificial intelligence at Amazon. Dr. Kass-Hout was formerly a chief informatics officer at the FDA. At Amazon, he is leading the efforts to develop AI products for the medical field.

2. Missy Krasner, head of strategic partnerships at Alexa Health and Wellness. Ms. Krasner has been a key player in expanding the use of Amazon’s Alexa in healthcare. She is responsible for forming partnerships and finding health systems to pilot using Alexa to securely receive and transmit protected health information.

3. Shez Partovi, MD, director of global business...

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