Business Intelligence
Seattle-based KenSci has raised $8.5 million in its first round of funding. It plans to use the capital to further develop its data and machine learning platform and expand its operations.
Cybersecurity, analytics and population health have the attention and dollars of healthcare organizations, which also are beginning to invest in prescriptive analytics and artificial intelligence, a new Healthcare IT News survey finds.
The company will use the cash to meet the expanding demand for its suite of SaaS-based customer relationship management software.
The company said its goal is to make healthcare outcomes improvement accessible to all and, in turn, boost collaboration industrywide.
Seventy percent of security industry professionals believe threat intelligence is too complex or voluminous to provide actionable insights, according to Ponemon Institute's Threat Intelligence report released today.
Healthcare merger and acquisition activity was down in the third quarter of 2016. Compared with the second quarter, deal volume fell 11 percent, to 369 transactions, according to HealthcareM&A.com.
Analytics
Eighty-five percent of providers are currently in RCM replacement mode or assessment, according to the newest Black Book Market Research report.
The second Pop Health Forum 2016 took place in Chicago with expert speakers, panelists and healthcare professionals discussing pressing issues, from analytics to chronic care management to telehealth. Here’s a roundup of what happened.
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A recent Cybersecurity Ventures report, sponsored by security firm Herjavec Group, also found global cybersecurity defense costs will exceed $1 trillion over the next five years.