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Bezos, Buffett, Dimon health venture will be based in Boston

Published on 7/2/2018

Bezos, Buffett, Dimon health venture will be based in Boston

"What it says is that they’re thinking very big," rather than narrowly focusing on technical issues like purchasing, said Dr. Robert M. Wachter, chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco.

Bezos-Buffett-Dimon Health Venture
Clockwise from top left: Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, Jamie Dimon, and Dr. Atul Gawande.
By Felice J. Freyer and Janelle Nanos Globe Staff June 20, 2018

Three of the country’s best-known business leaders have turned to Dr. Atul Gawande, a Boston surgeon and best-selling author, to head their new company aimed at reinventing how health care is delivered.

In announcing Gawande’s appointment Wednesday, investor Warren Buffett, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, and JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said their still emerging and still unnamed health care venture will be based in Boston. It remains unclear what exactly the company will do, but Gawande’s appointment suggests it is aiming high.