Google Health now has 500 to 1,000 employees, and it's the newest product area at the company since hardware.
more patients to have genetic tests to screen for diseases before it grew too late to treat them.
For instance, Feinberg helped recruit Karen DeSalvo as Google's chief health officer. DeSalvo, who was the health commissioner of New Orleans,in rebuilding the city's health systems in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Like Feinberg, she's been a big advocate of the idea that there's more to health than just health care. She's pushed for hospitals to consider whether patients have access to transportation services, healthy food and a support system before sending them home.
She's not the only high-profile departure. A top business development leader, Virginia McFerran, who came from
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