“In the past few months, Anthem has hired Warris Bokhari from Apple Health, as well as Toni Trujillo Vian (a 24-year Apple vet), and senior machine learning researcher Stefanos Giampanis, according to LinkedIn and two people familiar with the matter.
“The health insurer also hired Ted Goldstein, a former Apple vice president from 2002 to 2007, to run its AI and health data efforts, about six months ago, and some lower-level folks like Berick Bacani, a former Apple operations specialist, as a UX designer on the digital team.
“The focus on hiring from Apple dates back a few years: Anthem’s vice president of commercial Aneesh Kumar, who has been at the company for a few years started his career in the 1990s as a product manager at Apple. And Rajeev Ronanki, the company’s chief digital officer, previously worked at the consulting firm Deloitte on health innovation-related projects.”
MacDailyNews Take: Digital health will be like any other app – you’ll want your health apps to be well-designed, easy-to-use and understand, like any iOS app. No wonder they are hiring away Apple talent as they try to build that vision.
Want this to come sooner than later. There are so many apps. And, they’re not compatible. In my case alone, every time I go to Sentara Hospital to do any work-up, they make me sign using a digital pen that is windows based. Then, they print those forms that I just signed. From there, they attach bar codes with my info in it, to be then scanned into an electronic form. It’s so inefficient. I literally spend about 10 minutes this process. To make matters worse, their system is still DOS-based!!! It’s crazy.