Gawande, head of Amazon-Berkshire Hathaway-JPMorgan initiative, is hiring

In June, the group named Atul Gawande to lead the initiative, which will be based in Boston. While exact details on the venture are scant, Buffett has previously said that the goal is to go beyond just squeezing middlemen and actually lower costs and deliver better care. Gawande is in the process of adding staff now. “He’s hiring people,” Buffett said in a subsequent interview with Bloomberg Television Thursday. “Not very many people, but he will be hiring people.”