Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase & Co have appointed a surgeon who helped reduce post-surgical deaths in South Carolina hospitals as the CEO of their joint healthcare venture. ’s hospitals, where a Gawande effort helped reduce post-surgical deaths by more than 20 percent over several years thanks in part to work of Gawande’s Ariadne Labs, the South Carolina Hospital Association and Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The move by the two companies to form an alliance is part of a broader push for more collaboration between big U.S. health care providers that has been gaining steam since President Donald Trump took office.
Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase & Co have appointed a surgeon who helped reduce post-surgical deaths in South Carolina hospitals as the CEO of their joint healthcare venture. The move by the two companies to form an alliance is part of a broader push for more collaboration between big U.S. health care providers that has been gaining steam since President Donald Trump took office.