Gawande’s Goal Is Providing The ‘Right’ Health Care In New Venture By 3 Firms

His comments at the Aspen Ideas Festival came just days after being namedchief executive of a health care partnership unveiled earlier this year by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan Chase & Co. The new enterprise will oversee health coverage for about 1.2 million employees of the companies and their families. Gawande said he will focus on the same behaviors by doctors and hospitals that he studies at his Boston-based think tank Ariadne Labs.