Google's Doc: A Physician Leads Google Ventures Into Health Care

15 Mar 2013

• By Paul Bonanos

Internet giant Google’s four-year-old venture arm, Google Ventures, has begun investing in health care start-ups, led by a practicing physician who wants to bring Big Data savvy and Silicon Valley attitude to the halls of medicine.

In the next decade, the company best positioned to bring about widespread change in the health care industry might not be a health care company at all.

Four years ago, Google Inc. began endowing its venture arm Google Ventures with an annual cash stipend, which has risen...