By KEVIN J. DELANEY
September 12, 2007; Page B14
Google Inc. said its vice president in charge of health-related projects is leaving the Internet company, a departure that comes as competition over online medical-information services is heating up.
Adam Bosworth, an industry veteran with a reputation as a brilliant programmer, was overseeing the Mountain View, Calif., company’s health-related initiatives. (See his Google biography.) In a series of speeches and posts on the company’s blog since last year, Mr. Bosworth discussed the issues Google was mulling in the medical area. They centered on providing consumers with relevant health-related information, control of personal medical data and community features for discussing health issues with other consumers and medical experts.
Google has yet to release services targeted at those areas, apart from one limited initiative. Any Google services face competition from existing and planned offerings from rival Microsoft Corp. and others.
A Google spokesman said that Mr. Bosworth was on vacation and “has decided to pursue other opportunities after that.” Mr. Bosworth’s departure was earlier reported on the Search Engine Land Web site. He didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment. Before joining Google in 2004, Mr. Bosworth was a top technology executive at BEA Systems Inc. 

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