The leaders of the threecompanies have warned it will take time for the effort to meet itsgoal of improving care for their workers. (Photo:Shutterstock)
Jack Stoddard, a longtime health-care executive, has been namedas chief operating officer of the new health venture being launched by Amazon.comInc., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
|Stoddard started Tuesday, according to a statement from thestill-nameless health venture. He'll work with Atul Gawande, the Harvard surgeon and writerwho was named in June to run the initiative.
|Related: Amazon snares top cardiologist for its health careefforts
|The leaders of the three companies have warned it will take timefor the effort to meet its goal of improving care for theirworkers.
|“We're not in a hurry,” Berkshire Chief Executive Officer WarrenBuffett said in an interview last week on Bloomberg TV. “We'd liketo be in a hurry but we're not going to try and do something fasterthan it can be done.”
|Stoddard most recently was general manager of digital health atComcast Corp. He previously worked at the health technology firmAccolade Inc., and before that at UnitedHealth Group Inc.'s Optumunit, according to his profile on LinkedIn.
|The news was reported earlier Tuesday by CNBC.
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