GE HealthCare Technologies Inc. announced that Taha Kass-Hout MD, MS has been named Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to lead the company's new science and technology organization. The new group, alongside the creation of the CTO role, demonstrates GE HealthCare's commitment to driving innovation, growth, and value through research and development. Reporting into GE HealthCare President & CEO Peter Arduini, Dr. Kass-Hout will help drive GE HealthCare's D3 precision care strategy, a framework and digital products that emphasize the company's smart devices, aligned to disease states and enabled by digital.

D3 brings data and insights together to optimize the clinical and patient journey and enhances the company's ability to enable precision care. In his new role, Dr. Kass-Hout will work in partnership with GE HealthCare's four business segments (Imaging, Ultrasound, Patient Care Solutions, and Pharmaceutical Diagnostics), regions, and global engineering and machine learning (ML) teams to drive growth through clinical research, patient-centric innovation and advancements to GE HealthCare's platforms, and digital and ML capabilities. Prior to joining GE HealthCare, Dr. Kass-Hout served as Vice President, Machine Learning and Chief Medical Officer Amazon and Amazon Web Services.

In that role, Dr. Kass-Hout established and led Health AI strategy and technologies, including Amazon HealthLake, Amazon Comprehend Medical, and Amazon Omics, for health care, genomics, and life sciences industries. He also served two terms in the Obama Administration as the FDA's first Chief Health Informatics Officer, and Director, Information Science and Informatics for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Kass-Hout will define and lead a customer-driven enterprise-wide innovation and clinical strategy, integrating the most pressing clinical priorities with a multi-year technology strategy focused on new product introductions that support care pathways, R&D investment prioritization and a team with diversity of thought and capabilities to fuel clinical advancements, growth, and innovation.