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Apple Hires Top Pediatric Diabetes Doc

Fast Company reported that Apple has hired top pediatric diabetes specialist Rajiv Kumar, another recent recruit by Apple from the healthcare industry:

In the past few years, the iPhone maker has recruited a team of medical experts to help guide its strategy as it moves into health care. Its team currently includes Divya Nag, a former biotech entrepreneur, and Mike O’Reilly, an anesthesiologist who runs the ResearchKit platform. Apple has not disclosed the total number of employees who work on its health care products and services.

While so many are talking about Apple’s secretive car project, the company’s efforts in the healthcare space don’t seem to be getting the attention they probably should. This work could have a much more immediate impact for the company. It certainly seems like the Apple Watch will benefit and become more capable in this area. And Tim Cook isn’t exactly being hush-hush about it.

Alphabet has also been getting more into this.

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