Health Insurer Anthem Poaches Several Apple Health Employees
A _[CNBC][1]_ report on Tuesday brought attention to a slew of recent hires away from Apple's Health team to health insurer [Anthem][2], which is trying to improve the user-friendliness of its consumer technology.
According to the report, Anthem has hired half a dozen current or former Apple employees over the last few months, including veteran Apple staff as well as relative newcomers to the company.
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Among the new hires are senior machine learning researcher Stefanos Giampanis, and Apple Health's Toni Trujillo Vian, an Apple veteran of 24 years.
> 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.
_CNBC_ notes that the health insurer's Apple pedigree actually dates back a few years: Anthem's vice president of commercial, Aneesh Kumar, started his career in the 1990s as a product manager at Apple.
In addition to the Apple staff migration, the insurer has gained another high-profile recruit from the tech world: Udi Manber, who headed Google's search team, is now a technical advisor at Anthem.
Apple's staff departures are particularly notable given that the company is supposed to be redoubling efforts to improve its health-related tech. For example, Apple in 2018 [acquired][4] Tueo Health, a startup working on an app to help parents monitor asthma symptoms in sleeping children.
At WWDC 2019, Apple also [announced][5] that new health and fitness capabilities are coming to the [Apple Watch][6] in [watchOS 6][7], due to be released in the fall. New features include Activity Trends, a new Noise app uses the Apple Watch microphone to monitor environmental noise, and a Cycle Tracking app for tracking menstrual cycles.
Apple CEO [Tim Cook][8] has [previously said][9] that health is a major focus of Apple, and that health may actually end up being "Apple's greatest contribution to mankind."
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[5]: https://www.macrumors.com/2019/06/03/apple-watch-noise-app-menstrual-cycle-tracking/
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[7]: https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/watchos-6/
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According to the report, Anthem has hired half a dozen current or former Apple employees over the last few months, including veteran Apple staff as well as relative newcomers to the company.
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Among the new hires are senior machine learning researcher Stefanos Giampanis, and Apple Health's Toni Trujillo Vian, an Apple veteran of 24 years.
> 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.
_CNBC_ notes that the health insurer's Apple pedigree actually dates back a few years: Anthem's vice president of commercial, Aneesh Kumar, started his career in the 1990s as a product manager at Apple.
In addition to the Apple staff migration, the insurer has gained another high-profile recruit from the tech world: Udi Manber, who headed Google's search team, is now a technical advisor at Anthem.
Apple's staff departures are particularly notable given that the company is supposed to be redoubling efforts to improve its health-related tech. For example, Apple in 2018 [acquired][4] Tueo Health, a startup working on an app to help parents monitor asthma symptoms in sleeping children.
At WWDC 2019, Apple also [announced][5] that new health and fitness capabilities are coming to the [Apple Watch][6] in [watchOS 6][7], due to be released in the fall. New features include Activity Trends, a new Noise app uses the Apple Watch microphone to monitor environmental noise, and a Cycle Tracking app for tracking menstrual cycles.
Apple CEO [Tim Cook][8] has [previously said][9] that health is a major focus of Apple, and that health may actually end up being "Apple's greatest contribution to mankind."
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[1]: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/09/anthem-has-hired-many-health-tech-experts-from-apple.html
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[4]: https://www.macrumors.com/2019/05/24/apple-acquired-tueo-health-asthma-app/
[5]: https://www.macrumors.com/2019/06/03/apple-watch-noise-app-menstrual-cycle-tracking/
[6]: https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/apple-watch/
[7]: https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/watchos-6/
[8]: https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/tim-cook/
[9]: https://www.macrumors.com/2019/01/08/cook-apple-health-most-important-contribution-to-mankind/
[10]: https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/health/
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