STAT August 21, 2018
Dr. Maulik Majmudar has spent years toiling on a task Amazon must master to disrupt the nation’s health care industry: getting physicians to incorporate novel technologies into their practices.
This week, he announced he is taking a new job with the ecommerce giant following several years incubating new technologies at Massachusetts General Hospital.
In an interview with STAT Monday, Majmudar, the former associate director of the health care transformation lab at Mass. General, said the job at Amazon offers a chance to drive the uptake of technology solutions that could impact patients worldwide.
“The thing that truly attracted me was the opportunity to work with really meaningful products and services at the scale and scope Amazon has” around the world,...