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  • Amazon hires former FDA exec for secret health care team

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    Mariella Moon
    Mariella Moon
    03.17.2018

    Amazon has made a big hire for its secret health care division internally known as 1492, according to CNBC: FDA's first chief health informatics officer Taha Kass-Hout. The e-commerce giant reportedly brought him on board to work under former Google X director Babak Parviz in a business development role. What that role is remains a mystery -- it is a secret division, after all -- but based on Kass-Hout's previous jobs, CNBC believes he might help Amazon conjure up a way for people to get easier access to their health records.