Apple's health team, which has grown quickly in the past few years, has some a slew of departures. Sources tell CNBC that the departures are related to internal politics and dissent.
One of the key issues is long-term vision inside Apple's health-care team. Four people told CNBC that some employees feel the company could be taking on more ambitious projects and doing more in health. However its products and services are mostly confined primarily to wellness and prevention. The people noted these differences of opinion have flared up between the different groups.
Wellness involves helping those who are generally healthy with areas like exercise, meditation and sleep, while medical applications target patients with specific diseases. Wellness is less risky and less regulated than diagnosing and treating disease, but it's not where most of the cost is in the health care system. Almost 90 percent of U.S.
One faction wanted to introduce a telemedicine service and move into health payments to simplify insurance billing, but were not successful in driving these initiatives ahead.spent months vetting before it was acquired in mid-2017. There are also disagreements over the AC Wellness health clinics and whether they should expand into medical software and eventually produce products for clinicians, or remain focused on Apple employees. A small product team led by Apple veteran Jason Fass left AC Wellness in 2017. When the company announced its electrocardiogram for the Apple Watch in the fall of 2018, some doctors and others in the medical industry outside of Apple.
Other high-level departures from the group over the past few years are Robin Goldstein, who was at Apple for more than two decades and most recently worked on the regulatory side of health before leaving in late 2017; Anil Sethi, a former Apple Health director who left to form a health-tech start-up in late 2017; Stephen Friend, a top Apple researcher who departed at the end of 2017; Charles Schlaff, who worked on Apple Watch before moving over to special projects and left in November of 2018,...
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